this happens when you create a page with the same title and then delete it and re-create it
the original is still in the trash
if you empty the trash you can then create the page without the incremental number
http://codex.wordpress.org/Trash_status
Thread Starter
alfie
(@drtanz)
its not this case though, tried it on several sites and different numbers, they are not in the trash but it still happens
WordPress does this to protect archive year permalinks. In your case, posts from the year 2000 would be archived under mysite.com/services/2000, which is why you can’t use 2000 as a post slug. Of course, you probably don’t have posts from the year 2000, but it adds a -2 to the end of all numeric post slugs just in case.
The only work-around would be to spell out the number, like two-thousand.
All numeric slugs is a general problem for WP, as it expects all numerics to be page numbers and similar.
Solution is basically “don’t use all numeric slugs”, although if you’re willing to forget about paging, there’s plugins to change this as well.
Thread Starter
alfie
(@drtanz)
can you suggest some plugins for this?
