{"id":41380,"date":"2011-01-28T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=41380"},"modified":"2016-09-14T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:21:24","slug":"change-url","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/change-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Your Page URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can only change one level of the URL at a time.\u00a0 For example, if your website is <em>https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wordpress\/practice<\/em>, you would change the URL to <em>https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wordpress\/test<\/em> first, using the instructions below, and then you would change the URL to <em>https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp\/test<\/em> by repeating the same process but at the higher-level page.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span class=\"tw icon-exclamation-sign\"><\/span> <strong>Caution:<\/strong>\u00a0Avoid using a slug consisting of any of the <span style=\"color: #3890d3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Reserved_Terms\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #3890d3;\">WordPress reserved terms.<\/a><\/span> Using any of these terms may cause unexpected behavior, including &#8220;404: Page Not Found&#8221; errors. Also avoid using slugs made entirely of numerals.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In order to change your URL, please follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Edit Page<\/strong> view of the page with the URL you wish to change.<\/li>\n<li>Under the title of the page you will see a URL with the word <strong>Permalink<\/strong> next to it. Select the <strong>Edit<\/strong> button.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41384\" title=\"permalink\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/01\/permalink.png\" alt=\"permalink\" width=\"394\" height=\"37\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Delete the text that is displayed.<\/li>\n<li>Enter in the new text you would like for your URL.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41383\" title=\"enter\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/01\/enter.png\" alt=\"enter\" width=\"410\" height=\"33\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Save<\/strong> button.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41385\" title=\"save\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/01\/save.png\" alt=\"save\" width=\"564\" height=\"37\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Update Page<\/strong> button the right side of the screen.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41386\" title=\"update-page\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/01\/update-page.png\" alt=\"update-page\" width=\"290\" height=\"208\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your URL has now been changed.\u00a0 Be sure to check any links to this page you have created in your site&#8217;s content.\u00a0 You may need to update them to reflect the new URL.\u00a0 Also, any links to this page and its children pages on an outside site will now be broken.\u00a0 Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/faqs\/design\/#webmasters\">refer to the FAQ<\/a> about this concern for instructions on how to notify other webmasters of the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can only change one level of the URL at a time.\u00a0 For example, if your website is https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wordpress\/practice, you would change the URL to https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wordpress\/test first, using the instructions below, and then you would change the URL to https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp\/test by repeating the same process but at the higher-level page. Caution:\u00a0Avoid using a slug consisting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3321,"featured_media":0,"parent":304,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41380"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101353,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41380\/revisions\/101353"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}