How To Edit Media Pemalinks

There is no way to edit a media pemalink. If you upload an image and it creates a pemalink and you later want to create a post or page with the same permalink you can not change the permalink on the media file.

I figured out how to do it but it involves editing the database.

Tools needed: phpMyAdmin, FTP program like filezilla

Steps

1. Look at wp-config.php. Find the line that says

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘databasename’);

2. Write it down.

3. Using phpMyAdmin export a copy of the database.

4. Using phpMyAdmin find the record in the table wp_posts that has a post_name field equal to the pemalink.

5. Edit this record and change the post_name field to the new permalink.

All done!!!

• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by digitalwiz.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by bdbrown.