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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink: -2 appended to link on page update; can't editAll right, found my own question and answer from 11 months ago.
It seems that somehow, when I update a page, the image on the page is creating an “image attachment page” that steals the original permalink, and then a ” -2″ gets appended to the original content pages.
If someone can explain this behavior to me so I can stop it, I would appreciate it, so I’ll leave this question open for a bit.
Meanwhile I have deleted the new image attachment pages and renamed my content pages back to their original permalinks, so the site is working now. (The last six links in my original question are no longer as described above, the “bad pages” are now fixed and the -2 pages deleted.)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink: -2 appended to link on page update; can't editSo it seems the “bad” pages are the image attachment pages, which somehow usurped the original permalink for the content page.
For the “good” page, the image attachment page has the -2 on the permalink.
How and why I do not know.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink: -2 appended to link on page update; can't edit(Why they did this: so I know how to avoid it in the future.) For now, more importantly, how do I fix it?
ThanksForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page permalink changed, I don't know why, and I can't change it backOK, I fixed it.
I finally realized that, logged in to WP, I could navigate to that new strange page that hijacked my slug, and click edit to open the page for editing, and finally have a way to delete it even though it was not in my list of pages.
Its permalink was /?attachment_id=520 … so I have no idea where it came from or why /w-dw/ redirected there.
Anyway, I clicked “delete permanently” to get rid of that attachment page, and was then able to rename /w-dw-2/ back to /w-dw/
Thanks for your suggestions.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page permalink changed, I don't know why, and I can't change it backNo MySQL skills I’m afraid.
The plugin looks promising but I don’t have any pages in the Trash. The top of the Pages window says “All (38) | Published (37) | Draft (1)”…the plugin tries its best to restore untrashed posts to their original slug. The only time it fails to do so is if a new page or post has claimed the trashed post’s original slug, in which case the untrashed post is assigned a new slug.
I believe that I have the situation where a new page or post has claimed the original slug – right?
But why can’t I see that new page in my list of “All Pages?”