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1. verymarie
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,
   I created a simple website for my brother.
   http://tombremer.net

   The homepage is static, the posts are shown on the Blog page. Because I had to create a page called Blog that the posts appear on (but does not have any actual content), the permalink created (using %postname%) for the blog posts is /blog-2 --
   If you go to /blog, it is the blank "Blog" page.

   Is there anyway to get around this so that http://tombremer.net/blog is the actual blog?

   Thanks in advance for help!
   -Marie

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the permalink created (using %postname%) for the blog posts is /blog-2

   No it's not!

   http://tombremer.net/tombremer-net-officially-launched/

3. verymarie
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry, the permalink for the blog is /blog-2

   http://tombremer.net/blog-2/

   I want it to be /blog

   Thanks
   -Marie

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The problem is that you've created (and presumably trashed) an earlier page that was also called "Blog". So WP will force the -2 onto the permalink. Other than changing the name of the page and then editing the permalink to match, I don't know of a way around this.

5. verymarie
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks - I had forgotten that I had indeed trashed an earlier page called Blog.

   I read about this problem earlier today but just totally blanked that I had done that.

   Anyway, the solution is to empty the trash folder, then go to the Blog page and change the permalink to /blog

   Gracias Esmi.

   Marie

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