WordPress overwriting previous post with same permalink

  • Resolved kglovac

    (@kglovac)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I have been looking all over but not sure what is going wrong. I tried posting three new posts today. The posts said successfully posted and I was able to view it (using the newer wordpress post editor). When I went back though I realized that the 2nd and 3rd posts had overwritten the original post because wordpress gave it the same permalink. I tried to change the permalink and update it but that didn’t work. It also keeps changing the title and photo from the previous page. I am confused.

    I tried to clear the cache, log out, log in, and also checked the permalink settings and those haven’t changed.

    I’m at a loss as to what to change here to fix it, because I posted fine a few days ago.

    Thank you to any help you can provide!

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  • midnyt17

    (@midnyt17)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    I’m also encountering this same problem. Could it be a problem with the latest version of WordPress?

    Ken Gagne

    (@kgagne)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Two posts can’t have the same slug, so if you try to give a new post the same slug as an existing post, WordPress will append a number to the end. Is that what’s happening here?

    Thread Starter kglovac

    (@kglovac)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    No that’s not what was happening. The new post was automatically being given the same slug as the previous post and wouldn’t let me change it – therefore overwriting it.

    After hours on the phone with support, I figured out it was a caching setting in cloudflare that was causing it. Once I changed the setting everything worked as it should.

    midnyt17

    (@midnyt17)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    What setting on Cloudflare did you need to change? I’m having the same issue.

    Thread Starter kglovac

    (@kglovac)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    I had to delete page rules that had been created in cloudflare when I was using w3 total cache. hopefully that helps!

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