Hi!
The bottom-line is WordPress has detected that somewhere a piece of your content has the slug ‘about’. This could be anything – a post, a page, a custom post type post, even, technically a taxonomy.
My first recommendation is to check everywhere. Categories/Tags (although they shouldn’t really be an issue, but you never know), posts, pages, any custom post types you have etc.
If you can’t find one, then I recommend using Sequel Pro if you’re on a mac. If you’re on Windows, I can’t really offer definitive advice of what to use, but I heard http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/ is decent. Whichever software you use, the very first thing you should do is take a backup of all of your tables. (do a full export of the whole database).
Then, and only then, go into your wp_posts
table (assuming you left the prefix to be ‘wp_’ when you installed WordPress) and then look in the column called post_name and you’ll hopefully find one with a name of ‘about’ – don’t just delete it, though. Your best bet is to find out what it is (check what is in the post_type
column for that particular item and then edit it from the back end of WordPress. You can just get rid of it, but I personally prefer tying it all up within WordPress if possible.
Good luck!
Hi Richard, Thank you. I have checked everywhere and I found something in Categories that I’d like to check with you. I have one Category titled ‘Uncategorized’ which I am unable to delete. I thought this might be because I need to have one default category so I created a second category called ‘test’. I am able to delete my ‘test’ category but not the ‘Uncategorized’ one. Beneath the Category panel there is a note from WP that says:
“Deleting a category does not delete the posts in that category. Instead, posts that were only assigned to the deleted category are set to the category Uncategorized.
Categories can be selectively converted to tags using the category to tag converter.”
Could this ‘uncategorized’ category be connected with a possible deleted ‘about’ post?
I’d like to ask your advice on this before using Sequel Pro. I am on a mac.
Thank you.