Editing the permalink

  • Resolved vaughanprint

    (@vaughanprint)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    In the Gutenberg interface there is no provision to edit the permalink. It doesn’t even update if you edit the title. Not withstanding this, manual editing of the permalink is preferable for the following reason.

    Sometimes if we have two posts of a custom post type, they may have the same name.

    Example.

    I have a very large database of Irish speaking schools that is presented as an online directory. The site needs to use WPML as we need to show all pages in English and Irish. In some instances we may have a number of schools with the same name: Scoil Naomh Josef, one is in Co. Mayo, one is in Co. Galway and another is in Co. Wexford.

    The styling guide prefers to title the schools cleanly without appending counties in brackets. Vistors to the website will search the directory on a county by county basis so differentiation is not an issue.

    WPML works by querying a matched item in another translated language by using the permalink. If three schools have the same permalink base on the post tittle, jumping to a different language can end up with erratic results with the Irish translation for Scoil Naomh Josef in Mayo pointing to Scoil Naomh Josef in Wexford. To counter this you need to manually edit the permalinks to scoil-naomh-josef-mayo, scoil-naomh-josef-galway and scoil-naomh-josef-wexford.

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  • Hi there!

    Great you are trying Gutenberg! Yeah not being able to edit permalinks is a pain at the moment.

    And you have some very good reasons. Yes, it’s very important to content creators. And it needs to be on par with the current functionality, for sure.

    The developer team members are working on it and it seems they are almost done with it. You can follow along on this GitHub issue.

    Keep testing and sharing your experiences!

    Birgit

    Thread Starter vaughanprint

    (@vaughanprint)

    Aha! Good to see that.

    Some of the comments on that GitHub issue are interesting. It shows the different expectations each user has of a user interface. Personally, for me, the discoverability of controls is not not an issue as you kind of find these things fairly quickly and the permalink is not something I want to look at all the time, unless I need to change it because I need to change the title or I mashed that title on the keyboard when I entered it the first time. Out of the box Gutenberg is shaping up to be pretty good for general pages and blog posts.

    And! You’ll be happy to hear this, I have managed to use a function that injects CSS styling into the backend dashboard of WordPress to put a bit of shape on Gutenberg when using it for custom post types with their own specific fields and layouts. You can see my rudimentary results here:

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by vaughanprint.

    yep, totally essential to see the permalink to edit it – can’t do that

    Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    We are currently tracking this regression in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/7467

    As this is a nearly 3 month old topic, and with the rapid development of Gutenberg, I’m marking this topic as closed, any new issues that arise after a release should ideally have a new topic for discoverability.

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