Title: WordPress overwriting previous post with same permalink
Last modified: November 2, 2019

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# WordPress overwriting previous post with same permalink

 *  Resolved [kglovac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kglovac/)
 * (@kglovac)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/)
 * 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!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [midnyt17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midnyt17/)
 * (@midnyt17)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/#post-12089376)
 * I’m also encountering this same problem. Could it be a problem with the latest
   version of WordPress?
 *  [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * (@kgagne)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/#post-12092381)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kglovac/)
 * (@kglovac)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/#post-12100658)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midnyt17/)
 * (@midnyt17)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/#post-12109504)
 * What setting on Cloudflare did you need to change? I’m having the same issue.
 *  Thread Starter [kglovac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kglovac/)
 * (@kglovac)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-overwriting-previous-post-with-same-permalink/#post-12111662)
 * 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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