Title: Stubborn Permalink
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Stubborn Permalink

 *  [psa234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psa234/)
 * (@psa234)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stubborn-permalink/)
 * Ok… I’ve been back and forth on all of the forums on this one, and I haven’t 
   found anyone that’s had my same exact situation. Here is the order of what happened.
 * 1. We had a category like “Example Category” with a slug “/exampleslug/”. (Notice–
   this is not a page or post.) The permalink structure was set to “Custom” with“/%
   postname%/” set.
    2. Because that category was related to a page we needed to
   create, we changed the slug to “/exampleslug-posts/” and created a page with “/
   exampleslug/”, but the page’s permalink kept changing to “/exampleslug-2/”.
 * We’ve tried everything – deleting the category altogether, deleting the page,
   clearing trash, changing the permalink structure, etc.
 * Another weird and important symptom – if you create a post or category, you can
   have the slug be “/exampleslug/”; however, when you create a page, the permalink
   is ALWAYS changed to “/exampleslug-2/”. That leads me to believe that the internals
   of WP is missprogrammed in some way to clear the permalink cache for posts and
   categories, but not pages.
 * Please don’t tell me to just look through my trash (which is the answer I’ve 
   seen “work” over and over in these forums) – we’ve already tried that several
   times.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stubborn-permalink/)
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