WP URL Issue

[TheDonk]

Apparently I created a page at one point called ....com/this-page, but I got rid of it before it ever really existed. It's on a new site and the page was never indexed, and I don't think the page ever lasted more than a few minutes.

Now I'm trying to actually create a page with that url, and it's automatically adding -2 to the end of the url. So, now it looks like this....com/this-page-2.

I can't figure out how to get rid of this...and suggestions?

[OPC]

Apparently I created a page at one point called ....com/this-page, but I got rid of it before it ever really existed. It's on a new site and the page was never indexed, and I don't think the page ever lasted more than a few minutes.

Now I'm trying to actually create a page with that url, and it's automatically adding -2 to the end of the url. So, now it looks like this....com/this-page-2.

I can't figure out how to get rid of this...and suggestions?

You should be able to go in and edit the url manually. Save it as a draft, open it back up and the url should be there, which in theory you should be able to edit.

[TheDonk]

You should be able to go in and edit the url manually. Save it as a draft, open it back up and the url should be there, which in theory you should be able to edit.

That's the problem...it won't let me do that. It's somehow still recognizing the original page I created and won't let me save this page with that url. The first page was deleted in the back end a while ago, but it's still stopping me from using it.

[OPC]

I cannot seem to duplicate the problem on mine. Maybe your WP database needs cleaned/repaired. Run the repair from MySQL and see if that does the trick.

[TheShortStack]

Have you checked that your previous page isn't saved as a draft anywhere?

[TheDonk]

Ahhh, I figured it out. Bonehead error on my part. Thanks for the help guys.