Cannot start Permalink with "about"

Question

I have a very strange issue. I'm trying to create a page called "About Us" and the permalink renames itself to "us" or if I just try and change it to "about," it reverts to the draft ID. Here's the TS I've done.

Cleared the trash from pages and posts
Removed all drafts and revisions
Reset Permalinks
Deactivated all plugins
Activated to Twenty Fourteen
Searched the database for the word "about" and returned 0 results

I'm very experienced with WP and have tried variations of /%postname%, /%category%/%postname%, etc. If you read the list of t/s that I've already done, you'll see that I have already cleared the trash and pages.

I'm not able to use the word "about" to start ANY permalink. It can even be "About Botswana" and it will revert the permalink to "Botswana." I can't use that word whatsoever to start any permalink. Now, if I did "Botswana About" then it creates "botswana-about" with no issue.

Probably related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme — Paul Abbott, Jul 10 '14 at 22:29
I don't think so, I have a page on my WordPress site called [about-me](http://justin.ag/about-me/) that works fine. — doublesharp, Jul 10 '14 at 22:54
@paul.abbott.wa.us highly doubt it is related to the about URI scheme. He is stating that the slug of a post cannot begin with about, which would be http://www.example.com/about-us, not about:something. — michaelrmcneill, Jul 11 '14 at 01:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '14 at 01:02

I can't reproduce, but this is what I'd recommend. Grab the page ID and find it within the wp_posts database table, then manually set the slug to about (the post_name column.) Sometimes it takes WordPress reading a database change to get it back in the proper process.

If that doesn't work, try to reinstall the latest version of WordPress.

Cannot start Permalink with "about"

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