School website service training and support

Edit the URL

Use this guide to edit the URL of a page on your website. 

Before you start

  • Don't edit the URL of Global pages or News, Gallery, Events and Newsletter pages.
  • Authors do not have permissions to edit the URL of pages. Ensure you have approver status to rename a page within the site.

Step 1: Navigate to Home

  • Your school's home page will already be selected.

Step 2: Select your page

  • Navigate to the page that houses the URL you want to change. 
  • Select the icon to the left of the page name. The tick will appear and your selection will turn blue.
  • Select Move in the menu bar that appears across the top of the screen.

Step 3: Edit the URL

  • When renaming a page both Page title after move and Page name after move fields should be changed.
  • The page title is used for the navigation menu and main heading within the page.
  • The page name is used for the page URL.
  • Only use lower case letters, numbers and hyphens in the page name. Other characters – like spaces, question marks, percent signs, commas and ampersands – will cause issues.
  • Select Next button to continue.

Step 4: Select destination

  • Navigate to the parent page of your content page.
  • Select the icon to the left of the page name. The tick will appear and your selection will turn blue. 
  • If the option is available, select Move in the top right and continue to Step 5.
  • Otherwise, select Next where you will confirm if pages linking to your page should be adjusted and republished.

  • Make sure all available boxes are selected.
  • Select Move to continue.

  • You have successfully edited the URL of your page. 

Troubleshooting

  • If the option to Move page does not appear you may be trying to move a Must have page that cannot be moved.