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how to change a wordpress home page permalink as referenced in submenu links

I have a wordpress website with a menu structure that has home page as a parent with two sub-menus: privacy & sitemap.

The Permalink for the home page is this:

http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/ (as you would expect - since wordpress doesn't display the home page name.)

But for the two sub-menus it shows up as this:

http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home-2/privacy-statement/

http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home-2/site-map/

Why is the home page now listed as home-2 directory? Where can I change it back to be just home?

If I actually put this in the address bar: http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home/site-map/ It resolves to this: http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home-2/site-map/

I don’t think this was the way it worked when I first started this site. However, I accidentally deleted my main menu at some point (I know.. my bad!), and had to re-add the menu. It was after this event that I noticed the home-2 in the URLS. (This probably doesn't have anything to do with the problem, but I wanted to mention it just in case!)

I also read somewhere that if you have a duplicate page name (ie: in draft) that will cause the -2 added to a directory or page name. I did have a duplicate home (draft) page, but I have now trashed it & permanently removed it, AND that still didn't solve my problem.

What is causing it to be home-2, and is there anyway I can change it back to home?

Solution

  • Go to All pages from Dashboard and find the parent page of your subpages site-map and privacy-statement. It must be named Home( your front page now ). Then hover on it and click Quick Edit.

    You should saw something like this: screen

    Change the slug from home-2 to home( I marked that field with red underline ). And click to Update button. Your subpages will have permalinks like so now: http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home/privacy-statement/ http://localhost/mysite/mysiteWP/home/site-map/

    Note, that you can't save page with slug home, if there is another page with same slug in the Published, Draft, Scheduled categories.