post slug is not there

I have experienced this as an intermittent problem in 2.5.1. It comes and it goes.

There is a plugin called Admin Management Extended that among other things lets you edit the post slug on the Manage Posts (or Pages) listing page in the Dashboard. This gets around that problem.

Are you using pretty permalinks?

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated!

Unfortunately I am a newbie with this whole blog-thing (or any website thing!)
I have a blog hosted on WordPress’ site, and that works no problem, but the one that I had moved to my own domain doesn’t. I tried installing various editions of WordPress (ie 2.5 and earlier versions) onto a USB with Xampp, but it doesn’t work on any of them. I tried inmporting the current site, and it doesn’t work. Just can’t figure it out.

@ stvwlf: Thanks, I have put the admin Management Extended, and I am trying to figure out how to use it… is there an instructions page in English. My German is really rusty!
@iridiax: Thanks, but I only have a vague notion of what pretty permalinks are, so I guess that means I am using the default ones for WordPress. If you have any suggestions, I’m all ears!

If you are using the default permalinks, then the option for post slugs is not available. Themes should work with both default and pretty permalinks, but some theme designers do add in a few hard-coded links to pages with pretty permalinks (unfortunate since not everyone uses pretty permalinks).

It’s okay for you to use the default permalinks, and on the Cutline instruction page, use the instructions following this:

If you’re running WordPress using the default permalink structure, you can edit the header.php file such that you change the links to /about and /archives. Simply look for these lines: …

Thanks,

So that means, I replace the bit in brackets with the page ID of the page I want, and then it will appear as a navigation link on the home page?

How do I find out the page ID? I’m sorry, I’m so dumb…

Replace ## with your page ID. Go to Dashboard -> Manage -> Pages and put your cursor over the name of a page. The ID for that page is the last number that appears in the link in the browser bottom status bar. Since you are using default permalinks, you can also get the page ID number from the URL of that page, it’s the last number in the URL.

Okay, thanks! I’ll give it a try… I feel stupid because I really don’t know what I’m doing. I’ll let you know if it’s successful.

Hi, well I managed to get buttons to appear on the front page, by putting in the code and typing in the relevant entries, such as:

<li><a <?php if (is_page('17')) echo('class="current" '); ?>href="<?php 

bloginfo('url'); ?>/?p=17">Programmes - 节目</a></li>

but whereas the buttons appeared on the navigation bar, they didn’t link to anything. Also, it didn’t like my Chinese characters, which is a shame… anyway, at least that’s a Great Leap Forward…

I think I have found the problem, and from the looks of things, (since I have trawled the web looking for answers), a lot of people have been having this problem. I just tried downloading a different theme and all the pages worked straight away, so I know the problem is the Cutline theme itself.

The developer writes 3 how-to guides on his website, which show you how to get the ‘About’ and ‘Archives’ pages working:
https://cutline.tubetorial.com/
https://cutline.tubetorial.com/creating-archives-and-about-pages/
https://cutline.tubetorial.com/why-dont-my-archives-and-about-links-work/

but the developer doesn’t seem to think that people might use other pages apart from these, so the tutorials stop there.
In my case, I run a community radio station from wordpress, and we have ‘community’ ‘programmes’ ‘volunteers’ ‘training’ and ‘what’s on?’ pages as well.

From what I understand the developer wrote “Cutline” in a strange way, as discussed on https://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/import-wordpress
from the discussion here, it seems that if you want to get your imported pages to work, and show up on the menu you have a bit of hacking to do, because the Cutline theme wants your pages to be on yourURL.com/about or yourURL.com/archives or yourURL.com/whatever. I don’t actually know how to get my pages into these places, but at least I know what the problem is.