Title: Pretty Permalink Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Pretty Permalink Problem

 *  [cadkins86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadkins86/)
 * (@cadkins86)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m having some trouble with ‘pretty permalinks’. I’ve got all of them working
   for the other pages on my site however when I try to put in a certain custom 
   permalink for this one page of mine, the ‘about’ page, I input [http://www.pixilily.com/about](http://www.pixilily.com/about)
   and wordpress automatically changes it to [http://www.pixilily.com/about-2](http://www.pixilily.com/about-2).
 * Any ideas as to why this is happening? I don’t have another page named ‘about’
   either. My hunch is that possibly wordpress thinks there is already an ‘about’
   page? Any ideas as to how to solve this?
 * many thanks in advance.
 * Chris

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/#post-1957943)
 * Check the Pages trash to make sure there isn’t an old page called “about” (the
   default install comes with one) and empty the trash if it’s there. If it’s **
   not** there, let us know.
 *  Thread Starter [cadkins86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadkins86/)
 * (@cadkins86)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/#post-1957953)
 * hi zoonini,
 * I checked my trash and it it’s already empty… still not sure what’s going on.
   thanks for your reply btw
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/#post-1957956)
 * You may need to check the database (carefully!) and see if there’s an “about”
   page stuck there. I’ll have to let someone else walk you through that if needed
   because I don’t do a lot of work directly in the db.
 *  Thread Starter [cadkins86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadkins86/)
 * (@cadkins86)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/#post-1957960)
 * yeah I’m also thinking there is probably some remnant still in the database. 
   I’m still rather new at wordpress so I’ll definitely need some help from someone
   else. Thanks for your input.

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 * [pretty permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pretty-permalinks/)
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 * Last reply from: [cadkins86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadkins86/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-permalink-problem/#post-1957960)
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