Category slug problem

I'm using the custom permalink feature %postname%

But one category keeps adding a number to the end of the slug (bluewidgets-2)

I don't have any posts or other categories with the same slug, but for some reason it's not letting me change the slug. I know that with posts sometimes you need to completely delete duplicates from the trash before it stops adding the number to the end. But I don't see that option for the category.

Anyone suggestions?

Thanks

 

Hi,

I ran into a similar problem today and found following blog entry:

http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/04/editing-and-organizing-wordpress-category-slugs/

After I investigated my Wordpress database I noticed that the tags and categories are both stored in to the same table called wp_terms (if you are using the wp_ prefix to identifiy your wordpress database tables). Here is an example of my problem:

I had following tags and categories:

• Clean Code
• Unit Testing

Since I had created the tags before the categories, their slugs were: 'clean-code' and 'unit-testing'. Slugs for categories were: 'clean-code-programming' and 'unit-testing-programming' (The name of their parent category was programming). I solved this problem by adding and appendix -tag to the url slugs of tags. After that I was able to modify the category slugs and rename them to 'clean-code' and 'unit-testing'.

I hope this was helpful.

 

Very helpful thank you!! Solved my problem.

 

if wordpress is adding a number to your slugs it usually means that the slug is already in use, if its not in use by another category then chances are it is in use by a page or tag