Title: Url permalink slug bug
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Url permalink slug bug

 *  [wwwcight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wwwcight/)
 * (@wwwcight)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-permalink-slug-bug/)
 * Weird one this…
 * So on the edit page for a page, you can see what the url is going to be. This
   is normally some version of the title of the page. On making a page entitled ‘
   Making Anatomy Slides’ the url slug decided it wanted to be “making-anatomy-slides-
   3”. I’ve tried and tried and I can not get rid of the ‘-3’.
    – there are no other
   pages called that on the site, – if I change the hyphens for underscores then
   the ‘-3’ isn’t there, – if I try removing the ‘s’ from the end the ‘-3’ goes –
   if I call it ‘anatomy-slides’ the ‘-3’ goes – on the pages index the ‘-3’ isn’t
   shown if I try to quick edit – but its back again if I try to publish – if I 
   publish the page then go to the page without the ‘-3’ it redirects the page with
   the ‘-3’ – if I go to ‘-1’ or ‘-2’ urls those both 404.
 * What is going on, does anyone know?
 * I would publish the page for people to see but it is a public site and the document
   is not ready for publication yet.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-permalink-slug-bug/#post-4570686)
 * Try emptying your Post & Page Trash. You have existing Posts or Pages with the
   same title.
 *  Thread Starter [wwwcight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wwwcight/)
 * (@wwwcight)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-permalink-slug-bug/#post-4570696)
 * Ahh… thank you 🙂
 * I didn’t write the pages so I was not aware the author had done drafts and trashed
   them before
 * Thanks again
 * Nick
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-permalink-slug-bug/#post-4570731)
 * No problem 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-permalink-slug-bug/#post-4570731)
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