Blog defaults to "blog-2" – how do I stop this?

  • markelh

    (@markelh)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, a web designer recently migrated my WordPress site to a new template. Since then, the blog defaults to http://thebullbustercafe.com/blog-2/

    Looking at older forum topics about this issue, I checked my trash, found another “blog” and renamed it. There are no other files called “blog” that I can find.

    How do I stop this from happening? It is impacting how sites getting my blog feed are behaving, and I’d like to correct it. I am not super technical, so prefer not to mess around in a database, and the current site is very customized, so I don’t want to mess anything up.

    Thank you!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Did you try emptying your Page Trash and then editing the permalink of your current main posts page (Blog) via Edit Page?

    DJDoubleXL189

    (@djdoublexl189)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Wow they’ve got some kind of redirect in there.

    Do you have any kind of redirection plugin installed?

    Thread Starter markelh

    (@markelh)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    I know it’s strange! I did rename the page to Blog and yet it directs to blog-2. No redirection plugin that I’m aware of.

    DJDoubleXL189

    (@djdoublexl189)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Try changing the permalink to /blog/ , but that won’t work if there was a previous blog page in there that isn’t there anymore.

    Thread Starter markelh

    (@markelh)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    By the way when I edit the permalink it refuses to stay at blog and reverts to blog-2

    robertallen

    (@robertallen)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Have you tried installing Custom Permalinks plugin and renaming it manually?

    DJDoubleXL189

    (@djdoublexl189)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    That means that you have or had a page that already has a URL of blog-2 …you may need to check your .htaccess file for the redirect.

    Thread Starter markelh

    (@markelh)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Where do I find the .htaccess file?

    No, I don’t know of that plugin – that won’t change all my other blog posts, if I install it? I read something about checking the WordPress permalinks before installing this plugin?

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