Wordpress url issue

You can change this in your WordPress dashboard.

Go to WordPress.org for detailed instructions or google it.

There's probably a YouTube about it as well.

Search for - change WP page url

It doesn't let me change it, I cannot get the
/sample-page
part of the url to go away.

Reset permalinks.
Disable all plugins and themes to find if those are causing the conflict.
Replace your htaccess file

By any chance is there a category named sample page

just a thought

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I think the wordpress dashboard allows you to modify it. You can also youtube about it. I'm sure you'll find a way.

In general setting , there should be an option to set it . Specially if its paid theme

best thing you use SEO plugin in WordPress after that your permalink problam solve.

I edit my permalinks through Yoast SEO. In case you haven't given this a try.

https://yoast.com/help/how-do-i-chan...ink-structure/

Is it possible that you have created the page as a sub page of the sample page?

Your all pages have been created as a sub page of the main sample-page

The solution is simple edit every page individual
Go
Page Edit > Page Attributes > Parent > (no parent)

Done!

If you use NGINX, add directives:

# !!! WordPress Permalinks
# !!!

if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}

# Enable Gzip compression
gzip on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/x-icon image/bmp image/svg+xml;
gzip_vary on;

# Don't compress anything under 256 bytes
gzip_min_length 256;

# Compress output of these MIME-types
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-opentype
application/x-font-truetype
application/x-javascript
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/eot
font/opentype
font/otf
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
image/vnd.microsoft.icon
text/css
text/plain
text/javascript
text/x-component;

# Disable gzip for bad browsers
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

location ~ ([^/]*)sitemap(.*)\.x(m|s)l$ {
## SEOPress
rewrite ^/sitemaps\.xml$ /index.php?seopress_sitemap=1 last;
rewrite ^/sitemaps_xsl\.xsl$ /index.php?seopress_sitemap_xsl=1 last;
rewrite ^/sitemaps/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?seopress_cpt=$1 last;
rewrite ^/sitemaps/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?seopress_news=$1 last;
rewrite ^/sitemaps/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?seopress_video=$1 last;
}

location ~* .(js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|pdf|p pt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|swf|ico|flv|txt|woff|woff2|svg) $ {
etag on;
if_modified_since exact;
add_header Pragma "public";
add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public";
}

if (!-e $request_filename) {
set $test P;
}
if ($uri !~ ^/(plesk-stat|webstat|webstat-ssl|ftpstat|anon_ftpstat|awstats-icon|internal-nginx-static-location)) {
set $test "${test}C";
}
if ($test = PC) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?$1;
}

You can change this in your WordPress?