Learning: Managing and Cleaning Nice Urls

Problem

I have a user who deleted a page, then added a new one to replace it (with the same name). We have nice urls, and the former url was

/about_us/activity

. When he deleted that and added the new page, the new one’s URL is

about_us/activity__1

Does anyone know how to affect this name, and how to change it back to the original? I suppose I could try to use a redirect, but it would be cleaner if we could just change the page somehow to give it a clean url.

I will make sure the user knows not to delete and re-add pages in the future!

Solution

I personaly have encountered this ‘sideaffect’ from moving / renaming like named objects.

The solution I have found was to ...

1. rename the object to something unique (totaly different)
2. then (again) rename the object to something unique (what i want it to be called)

I just had to make sure I wasn’t renaming the object to anything another object was named in the same container (folder).

Special thanks to participants: Mark Marsiglio, kracker

References

• Cleaning Nice Urls