I have noticed after deleting an original page in WordPress with lets say a permalink of your_domain.com/contact/
and then trying to recreate the same page with the same name/slug, my WP is generating a “-2” at the end of the link, like: your_domain.com/contact-2/
.
I don’t understand why, since the original page was deleted. Why is WordPress treating new pages as if the original still exists? How to I clean WP caches, if such a thing even exists?
Thank you ahead of time for clearing this up for me.
1 Answer
Delete the page permanently from the Trash.
As long as it lives in the Trash, the post exists with status 'trash'
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