I want to change my page title, but I have so much content written I don’t want to delete the original post and then recreate it just so the permalink will be correct. This can be done by clearing the page/post slug* field of the original permalink.

This is what the original post looks like:

I have decided that I want to make a modification to my page title. I don’t have to delete the original post and recreate it in order to change the title. I can do this by clearing the permalink slug.

The “Edit Post” page will now only show a post that is titled “Great Day at WA”.

Easy Steps to Changing a Post or Page Title to a New Name

Step 1: Change the page/post title first.

Step 2: Click on “Edit” next to the permalink field.

Step 3: Delete the page slug field is the section that shows after the website name and represents the page/post title.

Step 5: The permalink will automatically update the page/post slug field to reflect the new page title.

Step 6: Click “Update”.

Use caution with this method because if you change a page/post slug after it has been published there could be a risk of creating broken links in search engines or other websites that may be linked to the original page or post.If that happens, you will need to do a 301- redirect** to point the old links to the new updated links.

*Sidebar Note:A page or post slug represents the title (name) of your page or post and is the phrase that follows the website name in a permalink.

**Sidebar Note:If you ever need instruction regarding how to do a 301-redirect, check out this training link on the subject.

Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules to check out this training.I hope you found it to be useful.

Verna