Title: Category slug adding -2
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Category slug adding -2

 *  [rugbyjack2005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rugbyjack2005/)
 * (@rugbyjack2005)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-slug-adding-2/)
 * I have just added 2 new categories but i notice the slug has -2 added on the 
   end of it. It says that there is another category with the same slug name but
   when i look, there isn’t. I understand sometimes if you have created a category
   in the past and deleted it, it will remember it. Perhaps this is what is happening
   but I can’t find the trash for categories. Any help would be appreciated

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [WP Libra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbum/)
 * (@wpbum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-slug-adding-2/#post-3305778)
 * I had to do this before and I followed this
 * [http://www.mktstmedia.com/blog/2011/delete-wordpress-category-numbered-slug/](http://www.mktstmedia.com/blog/2011/delete-wordpress-category-numbered-slug/)
 * Not sure if there is an easier way or a plugin out now but I know doing it in
   the database manually works.
 *  Thread Starter [rugbyjack2005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rugbyjack2005/)
 * (@rugbyjack2005)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-slug-adding-2/#post-3305783)
 * Super thanks, that’s done the trick 🙂
 * You may know the answer to my other question too; a couple of my posts come under
   several categories but I have no say in which category goes in the URL at the
   moment, how do I choose which category goes in the URL on new posts that come
   under several categories and how do I change the category of old posts?
 *  [WP Libra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbum/)
 * (@wpbum)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-slug-adding-2/#post-3305784)
 * These are old so not sure if they work still.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hikari-category-permalink/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hikari-category-permalink/)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scategory-permalink/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scategory-permalink/)
   or manual way [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-priority-in-url-when-using-multiple-categories?replies=11#post-1635341](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-priority-in-url-when-using-multiple-categories?replies=11#post-1635341)
 * I’d try from top to bottom.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Category slug adding -2’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [WP Libra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbum/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-slug-adding-2/#post-3305784)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics