Posted 5 months ago #
When I try to create a new category it forces the category slug to include a -2 after.
So for example if I put "Shirts" as the name and "shirts" as the slug, after submitting the slug will be turned into "shirts-2" and the correlating permalink which messes up my urls.
If I delete it and go to mydomain.com/shirts/ it's a 404, so it's not like I already have a page...
Any ideas?
You probably already created a category with the slugname "shirts" at some point in the past. When you add a slug, it goes directly into the database. So, if you use the same name again, wordpress defaults to making sure it doesn't have the same name by adding "-2" after it.
The best way, if you HAVE to use this, would be to go into the database and remove the slugname from there.
Posted 5 months ago #
Yep, that worked!
yourdomain.com/cpanel > phpmyadmin > select your wp database > search > enter slug > select all > open the one's with matches and find the one where it has your old slug and delete (can't remember what table it was in) > add category again - fixed. - that's how I did it.
Thanks for the help Josh!
My pleasure. Glad you got it resolved!
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