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How to change forums pge slug back?

JI jim
jim
Member

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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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

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…

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

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

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

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

JI jim
jim
Member

rolleysD’oh! I should’ve know that.

Thanks again guys, for everything.

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

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.