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How to change forums pge slug back?
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jim
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Mar 12, 2013 - 2:19 pm

While testing something non-SPF related on our dev install, I edited our "Forums" page to save it as a draft and created a new page for the forums which was assigned the slug /forums-2 while I did my testing. Now I cannot change the slug of the original page back to /forums even after deleting the new page.

I only have one page called "Forums" but when I edit the slug, it reverts back to /forums-2 every time.

Any suggestions for where to look in the db to change this are greatly appreciated. Or is there somewhere else I'm missing? I checked the SP Integration admin tab and only Forums-2 is available in the drop down menu for Page Details.

Thanks!

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Mar 12, 2013 - 2:43 pm

Did you delete a page with that slug? Could it be in the trash as that will stop it. WordPress will only disallow a slug name if it already exists...

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Mar 12, 2013 - 2:48 pm

did you empty the trash??  wp hangs on to the slug even while in the trash...

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Mar 12, 2013 - 3:08 pm

did you empty the trash?? wp hangs on to the slug even while in the trash...

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Mar 17, 2013 - 4:09 pm

rolleysD'oh! I should've know that.

Thanks again guys, for everything.

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Mar 17, 2013 - 4:47 pm

Sounds like that was the problem. Actually the first time we encountered that little problem it took us ages before the lightbulb went on!

I didn't realise you hadn't seen this response. You should have said during our email conversation.

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