Rename pages without breaking links

  • Resolved eyeghoti

    (@eyeghoti)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    I have a number of pages that need to be renamed. There are few enough that I can change them manually, but I need the page URLs to reflect the new page name without breaking internal links.

    The page names are of the format Page Name 2018 and need to be changed to Page Name.

    What is the best way to do this?

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    If the internal links were created within WordPress mechanisms, such as in menus, then WordPress will look after them. On the other hand, if you as the author put links into a page or post, then they will have to be fixed by you.

    So install a plugin called “Broken link checker”, set it to check internal links, do a run before changing your titles and fix what you find, change your titles and then do another scan, ther is a “scan now” button in the plugin settings, it will find the places where you need to fix things. After you have done this you can even turn off the plugin, or maybe have it run every week, it makes busy work on the hosting computer and as a result some hosting companies hate it.

    Thread Starter eyeghoti

    (@eyeghoti)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks. Sounds like just the thing.

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