In this article we will explain you how to edit the page's title (that's used for SEO purposed as well), and change the URL of a page.
1. Edit the Page Title
- Navigate to Pages
- Change the page title by typing a new title in the field highlighted below:
- Press Update on the right side, to save your changes.
2. Change the Page URL
Drawback to keep in mind before updating the URL
- If
you
inserted
this
URL manually in
other
pages,
the
old
link
will
not
be
working/found
anymore. Visitors
that
click
on
that
link
will
be
redirected
to
the
homepage.
- If
the
page
has
been
linked
outside
your
own
website,
in
other
websites
or
Google
Ads,
for
example,
the
link
will
not
work
anymore
as
well.
Do
not
forget
to
update
the
link
in
every
place
you
have
inserted
it manually!
Always let us know when you change a page's URL so we can set up any needed redirects.
- Navigate to the Pages overview in the back end
- Scroll down to the specific page you wish to edit the URL of
- Click on Quick Edit, which appears below the page title on hover
- Update the slug- field to the desired URL slug. The URL slug is the part that appears in the URL behind the slash. E.g. https://www.orangehotelmarketing.com/contact
- Press Update to save your changes
- If you wish to change the URL of the translations of this page, you need to do so manually per language. In order to do so, navigate to that specific language via the flag-icon on the top and click on the language you want to update.In some cases it might be that a field called URL / slug is added to the fields in WPML. Then you will be able to update the URL via there as well. If not, follow the next steps.
- A pop up will appear, warning you you are changing languages. Usually you are never supposed to make changes in other languages than your website's default language. Only when you wish to update a URL slug or page title after it has been created, you should navigate through you back end via this way. Click on 'Proceed to the non-default language' below the button.
- In the pages overview, again navigate to the specific page and press Quick Edit to update the translation's URL as well.
- Again press Update, and you have now updated the URL.
- Do the same for the other languages, and you are all set!