Most likely you need to delete it from the trash. Posts in the trash still occupy name spaces. How did you delete the event post in the first place? Did you delete it from My Calendar > Manage Events?
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wa7man
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Thanks, Joe… first thing I did when I found this was empty the trash, but that didn’t clear it up. Let me be a little more specific. I had a “current” page called “empowering-lifes-energies” … last week I created a brand new page called “empowering-lifes-energies” and when I saved it, the filename appended “-2” on it. So, I deleted the original page, edited out the “-2” in the new page and re-saved it… the “-2” came back.
THEN, I force-clicked the original URL: https://acecoachtraining.com/empowering-lifes-energies/
and got this: https://acecoachtraining.com/mc-events/empowering-lifes-energies/ which is the weird post from a couple years ago, that does not show up in pages, posts, or trash.
I have a re-direct in place now that points to the new “-2” page, the one I want… but I would like to get this artifact out of the system and restore the URL.
Hope this makes sense…
That’s in a custom post type; and is probably not deleted completely because the initial versions of My Calendar that were backed by custom post types didn’t fully delete the post data when an event was deleted.
That, or it’s because you actually do have that event still – is there an event called ‘Empowering Life’s Energies’ in your event catalog from a couple years ago? If you delete that, it would delete the post, as well.
