How do I reclaim either deleted pages or their permalinks?

If WordPress is appending an incremental number to the end of the permalink, that means that the original page still exists in the database. Several options:

  1. Try looking in the Trash.
  2. Try re-adding an administrator account with the same username, email, etc. as the one that was deleted.
  3. Go into the DB, using PHPMyAdmin, and change the post_author of the Pages in question to an existing username, in the wp_postmeta table.

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