WordPress: deleted page still showing up

Question

I'm using WordPress 4.6 with Divi theme.

A project page behaved funny so I deleted it. Now I wanted to build it again with the same slug, but the deleted page still shows up under that slug.

• I deleted the trash
• I deleted the browser cache
• even opened an incognito tab in Chrome

I even changed the slug at the time the old page appeared. Now the deleted page still shows up. But under the NEW slug.

Completely lost here.

What can I do?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you actually deleted the page, and not just left it in 'Bin' or 'Trash'?

If you're logged in as Admin, I believe deleted, and draft pages still show as normal so you can preview them.

Try logging out of /wp-admin/ and see if you can still access the page. If it says 'Page not found', then your page is still in Wordpress and hasn't been deleted.