WordPress 2.5 Brecker: No Page Slugs???
Written by Zain on March 31st, 2008{ 9 comments }
Yeah, I know… I’ve been away for a really long time. Too long. Don’t expect me to make up excuses and apologise for my absence.
I’m back with a renewed focus. I’ve been working on getting FAQ-Tastic properly released. And some of you may already know there’s a Pro version in the pipeline. Well… It’s nearly here. So sorry for the delay (nuts… I just apologised didn’t I? Damn my Englishness).
Well there’s a snag with the new FAQ-Tastic plugin… Last Saturday saw the release of WordPress 2.5 (a.k.a Brecker - after “an exceptionally talented saxophonist” Michael Brecker. Who knew? Who cares?). Now I got to test with this new version…
Anyway, I’ve only just managed to download WordPress 2.5 and start having a play with it today. This “Brecker” version *is* pretty cool and has some *really* (and I mean *REALLY*) cool features…But one thing troubles me:
HOW THE *&$( DO YOU EDIT THE PAGE SLUGS IN WP2.5?!?!
OMG, do you realise how serious it is for your average Internet Marketer if they’ve taken the slugs away?LOL… okay, don’t worry. They’ve not taken the page slugs away - it’s just not intuitively found. Most bloggers wouldn’t think of changing their page slugs but for anyone serious about Search Engine Optimization, changing the page slugs is ESSENTIAL!
So I’m going to show you how. And cause I’m nice, I’m going to give you pictures too (actually, they’re screenshots for a new ebook I’m doing)
Okay… are you ready? Here’s how you do it. Click the image below for a better look at this.
- Type in a Post or Page Title
- Click onto the body area of the new Visual Editor
- Wait a couple of seconds for the Post/Page to save itself as a draft
- You should now have a line of text just underneath the Title
- Find the “edit” link and click on it
- Tweak the Slug and add your keywords to it (standard SEO blah blah blah)
- Hit “Save”
- Go have a cigarette.
Like I say, initially I couldn’t find the Page Slugs and *FREAKED OUT*. Thankfully, it’s still there… *phew*, so don’t worry if you can’t find it at first - I did the same thing!
Anyway, I can’t stop and be chatting here all day - no time to write long posts anymore. I’ve got an FAQ plugin to test and make sure works on the new version of WordPress 2.5.
As much as I like this new version of WordPress, it does mean a lot of work - especially seeing as I did a guide (which I didn’t release) and is now redundant. Oh well.:(
Fingers crossed that FAQ-Tastic works on 2.5.
Wish me luck 
Tags: change page slugs, faq, How-To, links, optimization, page, plugin, plugins, wordpress 2.5, wordpress brecker
March 31st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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April 9th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Thanks Zain. I was actually freaking out because I just upgraded and couldn’t find the slugs category. Thanks to you I’m able to use it again. Cheers and good luck with the plugin. Sounds interesting… I’d be willing to test it out on Winning the Web. Just let me know.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
While this does seem to be the case with Writing and Editing Posts, not so with Editing Pages…I guess once you save a Page, the slug is set for all time?
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
How do you add the slug after the page has already been published?
April 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
That was going to be my question too. You CAN change it in the database if you have access to that. The table you want is wp_posts and the field you want to change is post_name. I’d love to know how to do this without having to break into the database though, so if anyone finds out, I hope they’ll let us know!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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April 26th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
As you’ll see from my second post (see comment above), it’s possible to change the Page slugs after they’ve been published. If you know how.
Well… I’ve created *another* step by step, how-to guide, so you can all stop freaking out now
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