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Edit and translate page URLs
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By default, the page URL is the concatenation of

  • Parent folders
  • Page name

~/page-builder-test/_a_big_fan_of_alpha/fans-page is a page URL example.

When the URL from the site structure is not readable or good for SEO, the FORGE Page Builder for each page and folder lets you overwrite:

  • The Basic URL (the language-independent URL)
  • The language-related URL
  • The name within the language-related URL

    Note: index pages only allow overwriting URLs, not the name — which must remain index.

Take a look at the below example, where

  • The alias ~/fans-home overwrites the ~/page-builder-test/_a_big_fan_of_alpha/fans-page within the Basic URL
  • In the English version
    • The fans-home name overwrites the fans-page name
    • The ~/fans-home alias overwrites the URL
  • In the French version
    • The la-maison-des-fans name overwrites the fans-page name
    • The ~/la-maison-des-fans alias overwrites the URL

Note: Copied pages and folders have empty aliases and copied names, as the copy sources may have. When copying/pasting a page or folder, the copy process skips aliases but keeps names.

Note: Copied pages and folders cannot have the same translated URLs as the copied sources. When copying/pasting a page or folder, if the new page or folder is under the same parent folder as the source, the pasted translated URLs gain a numbered suffix: e.g, fans-home_1 or la-maison-des-fans_1.

 

How to edit and translate the page URLs

To setup the URL aliases, take the following steps:

  1. Select the cog icon in the top-right of the page, then select URLs and Aliases:


  2. Depending on your needs, enter either the basic alias or aliases per language:
  3. Select Save settings in the bottom-right to save aliases:
  4. Confirm that you want to apply the aliases immediately on the front-end:
  5. Once saved, to undo your changes and restore the original URL, select the undo button:
  6. Confirm that you want to restore the original URL immediately:

Note: URL alias updates of published folders and pages reflect immediately on the front-end. Beware that you are changing a published page URL.

Double-checking your URL translations

After publishing your page, double-check your URL translations by taking the following steps:

  1. Select a language, e.g., French (fr-FR) from the top-right corner of the page.
  2. Select either View or Preview to see what the page looks like in the front-end.
  3. Double-check the page URL.

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