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#1521 – Updating category/menu title

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Saturday, 12 December 2015 13:05 UTC

theralphuwe

I updated my menu item "2010-2015" to "2010-2020" and updated my category "Washington Report Archives (2011-2015)" to "Washington Report Archives (2011-2020)"

I want my new SEF urls to reflect that change. Is this something that will take a while to propagate or do I need to purge the SEF links somehow?

Here is an example link:

http://www.xxxx.org/washington-report-archives-2011-2015/2016-january-february/

I want the link above to actually reflect the new category title so that it reads the following:

http://www.xxxx.org/washington-report-archives-2011-2020/2016-january-february/

Thanks in advance and let me know if you need further information.

Saturday, 12 December 2015 13:09 UTC

theralphuwe

By the way, I use Cloudflare so perhaps that is causing the issue? I know they cache things for up to 8 days. I guess I could try disabling Cloudflare temporarily?

Monday, 14 December 2015 14:45 UTC

wb_weeblr

I want my new SEF urls to reflect that change. Is this something that will take a while to propagate or do I need to purge the SEF links somehow?

Well yes, the point of storing URLs in the database is that they are there ready to use. Another thing is that even if articles title or content changes slightly, we usually don't want URL to change - good URLs never change.

You don't have to purge URLs to reflect those changes, that would delete all URLs and is not needed. I would advise simply to update the URLs involved, by searching them in the URL manager.

You have 2 choices there, depending on how the new content relates to the old content:

1 - if the old content is gone and the new content is not unrelated to the old, then delete the old URLs. New ones will be recreated when needed for display, using the current category title (remember that menu items are NOT used to build URL).

2 - If the new content is somehow related to the old one, some sort of replacement, then it's probably best to make sure the old URLs is redirected to the new URL. The simplest way to do that is to go to the URL manager, locate the OLD URL, and modify it to reflect the new category title. This will in one go:

a - create the new URL
b - create a 301 redirect (visible under the "Aliases" tab) from old URl to new URL.

Rgds

Monday, 14 December 2015 16:24 UTC

theralphuwe

Thanks for the reply. I will have a go at it and get back to you if things don't go as planned. :-)

Monday, 14 December 2015 16:50 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

OK, i'll leave this ticket open. It will auto close in 2 weeks if no further comment is made.

Rgds

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