Solve this ANNOYING Problem in WordPress

Key Takeaways

There's this annoying problem in WordPress. You're creating a post and for random reasons the slug has a minus or hyphen 2 next to it. And if you go and change it like this and then you go and save again, the hyphen 2 returns automatically. So this happens because of two reasons. Let's fix both. First, go to your post and see if you have any other post with the same URL. And sometimes the trashed one can also cause a problem. And in my case, the trashed one is the culprit. I can delete this and the problem should be fixed. But if you do this and the problem is still not fixed, it might be a media library issue. So let me show you how to solve that too. Inside the media library, go to the search option. Search for the keyword that's causing problems. In my case, it's thumbnail. And I can see that there's one image with the name thumbnail. Let's click on it. And this is the detail page. Go to the file URL option here. And if you scroll down to the edge, you can see it's thumbnail.jpg. So you can confirm that this is the problem. And looking at the page, you might not be able to understand how to actually change the URL for this image. So let me show you that. Go to the edit more details option here. And on this page, go to the screen options here. You'll find the slug option. Enable the slug option. And once you scroll down, you'll start seeing this option, the slug option, where you can change the thumbnails or change the slug of the actual post. For example, I'll change mine to thumbnail example, and then go and update the image like this. And once you've deleted all the excess posts and changed the media library slugs, your problem should be solved. Follow me for amazing WordPress tips just like this