“Edit Permalink” button replaced by “Change Permalinks” button

  • I am using the latest version of WordPress that is installed on a Webnames.ca host. I’m using Ocean WP theme.

    I have created a number of pages (not posts, but pages), that were automatically set up with permalinks ending with numbers like “/?page_id=30”. However, I need to change these to custom ones, such as “/about”, “/contact”, etc.

    After researching how to do this, I went to edit the page with WordPress Editor, and clicked on the title of the page. Above the title appears the permalink, but instead of the “Edit Permalink” button, there is the “Change Permalinks” that redirects to the settings page that deals with the permalink structure for posts (not what I need: I need to change permalinks to specific pages).

    I read that I need to save the draft, and then the “Edit Permalink” button will appear. I tried multiple times saving the draft, going from published to draft, saving the draft and so on, bu in neither case did the “Edit Permalink” button appear.

    Would very much appreciate help on this.

    It seems I have the same issue as the last person (michaelgli) who posted in this thread here (before the moderator’s post). https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/permalink-edit-is-missing/

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by dttoronto.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by dttoronto.
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  • My understanding is that WordPress has an internal Rewrite Engine that is dormant when your URLs are set to ‘plain’ (the numeric parameter is parsed). Right now you don’t have permalinks enabled so WordPress is asking you to turn on or create your first Pretty Permalinks.

    Then it should let you edit those. In a way, it’s telling you that you “can’t edit what doesn’t exist’ yet.

    Sometimes WordPress isn’t as intuitive as it should be but when you ask questions like this then that input sometimes makes it back into the next version. Other times you just ‘go with the flow’ and wind up where you need to be even though the wording isn’t clear or seems to be counter to what you need/want to do.

    Thread Starter dttoronto

    (@dttoronto)

    Ah, thanks a lot, that solved it!
    I went to Settings and Permalinks, and instead of “Plain” selected “Day and Name”.

    Now not only the “Edit” button appeared, but each page has neatly changed its URL to match its title automatically.

    Ironically, I spent half a day reading about this on the internet, and nowhere did it say that the settings should be changed from “plain” to one of the other options in order for it to work. It would be great if this could be added to the official WP manual.

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