Title: A bug with permalinks?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# A bug with permalinks?

 *  [jarekc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarekc/)
 * (@jarekc)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-bug-with-permalinks/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a problem with permalinks. I googled a lot searching for a solution but
   did not find anything applicable. That’s why I am placing this post here.
 * Assume there are pages created with WP backend (the domain name is fancy):
    1.
   [http://www.xyz.com/ebook](http://www.xyz.com/ebook) 2. [http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1](http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1)
   3. [http://www.xyz.com/ebook-2](http://www.xyz.com/ebook-2)
 * URLs for pages 2 and 3 were created automatically to avoid duplicate URLs as 
   user wanted to created 3 pages using ‘ebook’ as the title. Now, I sent [http://www.xyz.com/ebook](http://www.xyz.com/ebook)
   to the trash bin and removed it definitely subsequetly. But when I input [http://www.xyz.com/ebook](http://www.xyz.com/ebook)
   into browser’s address bar I get redirected to [http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1](http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1).
   Moreover, if I removed [http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1](http://www.xyz.com/ebook-1)
   also I would get redirected to [http://www.xyz.com/ebook-2](http://www.xyz.com/ebook-2)
 * Is it possible to avoid this behaviour? I mean I would like 404 error page displayed
   when I try to access [http://www.xyz.com/ebook](http://www.xyz.com/ebook) even
   though pages having URLs suffixed with -1 and -2 exist.
 * Thank you for you help.
 * Jarek Cudzich

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-bug-with-permalinks/#post-5435121)
 * > user wanted to created 3 pages using ‘ebook’ as the title
 * As you’ve mentioned, the -1 -2 -3 suffix is added automatically to prevent issues
   with duplicate permalinks. WordPress thinks you’re creating multiple pages/posts
   of the same name (which apparently, you are) and adds the “-1,-2,-3” in an effort
   to know which one to display.
 * Would it be any more of a practical/convenient solution to simply modify your
   ebook page naming conventions slightly and avoid the issue entirely? Example:/
   ebook1 /ebook2, etc.. something specific to each page.
 *  Thread Starter [jarekc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarekc/)
 * (@jarekc)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-bug-with-permalinks/#post-5435123)
 * Thank you very much for your reply.
 * Your idea to modify the naming convention is great as it would really solve the
   problem. The problem is there are many links on other pages that we will not 
   be able to update. So if I modify the naming convention, the site will loose 
   traffic driven by those links.
 * Are there any other solutions (that would allow to keep urls as they are) available?
 * Jarek

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## Tags

 * [duplicate urls](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicate-urls/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [jarekc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarekc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-bug-with-permalinks/#post-5435123)
 * Status: not resolved

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