Why is the parent slug showing up in the child slug in a structure?

Question

Basic info

• I have a structure with a handle about.
• The Entry URI format is about/{slug}. EDIT: also tried it with just {{ slug }}
• I created a child page called "Privacy Policy" with the slug privacy-policy. It has a parent of the page "About SAFS" (slug about-safs).
• I can only access the page at mysite.com/about/about-safsprivacy-policy. If I go to mysite.com/about/privacy-policy, I get a 404.
• If I include {{ entry.slug }} in the template, it prints privacy-policy.

Edit: This is my Settings > Sections > About after changing slug to just { slug }

My question

Why is the parent's slug being inserted into the URI, and how do I change that?

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Possibly relevant info

All the top-level pages in the About structure display on a single page, using this template for the entries:

{% if entry.level == 1 %}
  {% redirect siteUrl|trim ~ 'about#' ~ entry.slug %}
{% else %}

  {# normal template #}

For the About index template, I include:

{% set link = siteUrl ~ "/about" %}

EDIT: I also tried removing the redirect from the template, and I'm getting the same routing issue for the privacy-policy entry.

Answer 1

Pretty sure that the ResaveElements task just hadn't run yet - my queue was stuck. Once I cleared the stuck items, the issue resolved on its own!

Answer 2

Please take a look into your section. In Craft 2 there are two fields: Uri format parent and URI format child. You probably included the parent slug into the child input

Additional note: it's not a good way to rebuild your links manually. You should always use the getUrl() function unless you have a really good reason for it