The problem I'm running into is the permalinks for pages have a dash after them because multiple pages were created with the same name accidentally. After removing the duplicate pages the remaining page still has a -3 after the page name.
Example: site.com/events-3 I want it to be: site.com/events
When I update the permalink under the title of the page in the dashboard it resets back to the events-3 name.
Is there a way to make wordpress accept the "events" permalink instead of adding a "-3" at the end?