How To Edit & Change Post/Page URL In WordPress

January 14, 2023

·

After the WordPress 5.0 update, WordPress has introduced a new content editor called Gutenberg aka Block Editor. The new editor has completely replaced the old classic editor.

As a result, a lot of things have changed. Though the new editor is more advanced, it might take some time to get used to it and understand all the features.

One of the things that may confuse you is, how to edit the post URL.

No worries. I’ll show you how to edit the post/page URL in WordPress Block editor.

Subscribe To Our Channel

Note: If you want to change the permalink structure of your whole WordPress site, read this post.

Let’s get started.

How to Edit & Change Post URL:

If you’re using the WordPress Block Editor, you have three ways to change the permalink of your WordPress posts and pages. Let’s start with the first option.

Option #1: Changing Permalink From The Post Panel

Just click on the ‘Post’ panel tab from the right-hand side and change the URL Slug from the ‘Permalink’ option.

Now if you click on this, it will show an input that mainly allows you to edit the slug associated right with the post/page.

Once you’ve changed the URL, make sure to update the post/page.

Option #2: Changing Permalink Using A SEO Plugin

Almost all of the major SEO plugins like Rank Math and Yoast SEO have the option to change post URL.

Here’s how to do it using the Rank Math plugin.

Just update the post/page after changing the URL.

Option #3: Changing Permalinks via All Posts

If you want to change the permalink of an old post, you can follow this step by step tutorial.

Now in the very first step, you need to hover over to the Posts in the left sidebar right when logged into your WordPress dashboard, then click on the All Posts. If you want to edit a page a permalink then you will need to hover over Pages and simply click on All Pages.

Just find a post whose URL you want to edit. When you find that post from the list then just click on the Quick Edit.

In this step, you can edit the permalink aka slug of a post. After you’re done editing the URL just click on the Update button so all the changes that you have made can be saved.

Note: If you change the URL of an old post/page, make sure to redirect the old post’s URL to new post’s URL.

Final Verdict

Hope you can edit Post URLs in WordPress Gutenberg Editor with the help of this post. Now changing the permalinks/slug of a post/page in Gutenberg editor isn’t that complex.

Here we have listed three ways that anyone can use in order to change the permalinks of any posts or pages easily and effortlessly

If you find this post helpful then you can share this post on social media channels like LinkedIn and Twitter.

Related Posts:

How to Remove Date from WordPress URLs

How to Remove index.php from Permalink in WordPress

How to Add A Link in WordPress Post/Page

Written by:

Istiak Rayhan

Istiak Rayhan is the co-founder of DotCamp LLC, the company behind popular plugins like Ultimate Blocks, WP Table Builder, Tableberg, and more. He started his online career as a blogger back in 2011. Later, he entered the WordPress Plugin business with his younger brother, Imtiaz Rayhan.

One Plugin To Replace Them All

FREE DOWNLOAD

15 responses to “How To Edit & Change Post/Page URL In WordPress”

Nir

I want page url as simple /%postname%/ but post url with blog/%postname%/ how can i do that

Reply
1. Istiak Rayhan
  
  To make your blog post URL looks like this (yourdomain.com/blog/post-name), you need to create a subdomain like this (yourdomain.com/blog/) and install WordPress there.
  
  Also check this post for changing permalink of your WordPress site.
  
  Reply
Allsyon Belo

Hi, can you help me? The permalink field don’t show in my post. What do i do?

Reply
1. Istiak Rayhan
  
  Have you tried all of these methods?
  
  Reply
  1. Allsyon Belo
    
    Yes and nothing work. I searched for any function to input in the functions.php but as well don’t find
    
    Reply
    1. Istiak Rayhan
      
      It might be a conflict with a plugin. Try deactivating all plugins and see if the issue has been solved.
      
      Reply
nabin

I change my url , but what about new url? will not it effect on index? how to fix it?

Reply
1. Istiak Rayhan
  
  If you’ve changed URL of an old post, then you’ll have to redirect old URL to the new URL. And Search Engine Bot will do the rest.
  
  Reply
Azeez Shaikh

Peter, even I was having the same issue but couldn’t find a solution. I tried changing the slug through SEO plugins too, but that doesn’t work. I figured out that the issue can be solved by going to WordPress dashboard>settings>permalinks. There you will see ‘common settings’ set to ‘Plain’. All you have to do is click the fourth toggle button that says ‘Post name’ and click ‘Save changes’. There you go, problem solved.

Reply
1. Shab Reslan
  
  BOOM thanks!
  
  Reply
2. Aditya
  
  I cannot thank you enough Azeez. This was driving me mad all of y’day and I had a feeling there was a simpler solution, but I couldn’t remember where. Maybe your comment should be a post in itself!
  
  Reply
  1. Istiak Rayhan
    
    Yes, we have a post for that as well – https://ultimateblocks.com/how-to-change-permalink-in-wordpress/
    
    Reply
Peter

This didn’t help me. I changed the slug and the permalink remained the same.

Reply
1. Istiak Rayhan
  
  On that case, change the URL by using a SEO plugin like Rank Math or Yoast SEO.
  
  Reply
Aria Mathew

It’s a short and crisp post. I don’t know if we can change the URL in the Document sidebar. Loving the features of Gutenberg. Most of the people find it hard. I don’t know why? I find it really cool

Thanks & Regards
Aria Mathew

Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply