Creating a new page, want to assign it the same permalink as another page

  • Resolved zdawg

    (@zdawg)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    So, I’ve been tasked with creating a new page on our website, to replace the one currently live on our site (and has all the links pointing to its permalink)

    I want to take the original URL permalink from the current page, and assign it to the new page (I’ll keep the original page too, just unpublished as a draft or something in case we want to switch back at a later time).

    The permalink format for the original page is like this:

    https://mywebsite.com/about/contact-us

    In the new page I created it will only allow me to create permalink with

    https://mywebsite.com/aboutcontact-us

    without the extra “/” (it gets removed if I try to enter it for some reason). If I try to edit the permalink on the original page it will only allow me to remove the “contact-us” portion of the URL, I can’t remove the second “/” after about.

    It seems like it is forcing me to use a different format for the new page than it did for the original page (new permalink can only use one “/” whereas the original page used 2 “/”s? I don’t want to have to go through and change all the links on the site, I just want the new page to have the permalink that originally belonged to the other page.

    Hopefully I explained this clearly enough for somebody to understand what is going on, apologies if not.

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  • Looks like the original page is a child page of your /about page. Check the Parent dropdown in the Page Attributes panel on the Page editing screen.

    Also, permalinks must be unique within your site, regardless of page published status, so you’ll have to change the original permalink first, otherwise your new page will end up being something like /about/contact-us-2.

    Thread Starter zdawg

    (@zdawg)

    Thanks, that was exactly what I was missing as the “Page Attributes” wasn’t checked and thus wasn’t showing up when I pulled up the page editor. Everything is great now!

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