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cant edit permalinks

Posted: January 29, 2017 at 7:46 pm


Sydney

January 29, 2017 at 7:46 pm

I duplicated an event. In the duplicate I tried to edit the permalink (by pressing the edit button below the event title above the description).

when I click apply and update the page it reverts to the old permalink.

I have made sure I am pressing ok after the edit. Once the page reloads after pressing the update (for the event) it refreshes with the original permalink.


Sydney

January 29, 2017 at 7:47 pm

changing permalinks on other events that are not duplicates does work on my site.


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

January 30, 2017 at 6:41 am

Hello,

Please see my reply here on the add to cart option not working as expected: https://eventespresso.com/topic/ticket-selector-redirecting/#post-230204

Next, if there is an existing event with the new URL, then it cannot be re-used.

Could you check to see if this is what is happening?

If you definitely want to re-use the URL, then you’ll want to edit the original event to add some extra characters (e.g. a number to the end) and save changes. Then go to to the new event and adjust the URL and save changes.


Lorenzo


Sydney

January 30, 2017 at 7:06 am

WIth all plugins except event espresso ones disabled I still get the error.

To reproduce:
create and publish event
duplicate event
publish duplicate
attempt to change duplicate permalink on duplicate event (fails)

interestingly if I edit the permalink before publishing the duplicate event then it works. I have also confirmed that using this method I can get a second duplicate of the original to have the permalink that I want as long as I change it before hitting publish the first time.


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

January 30, 2017 at 8:14 am

Hi,

I tested those steps and I was able to edit the URL for an event after duplicating it, publishing it, editing it and then saving the changes:

https://cl.ly/3r01043Q0734

What web browser are you using?


Lorenzo


Sydney

January 30, 2017 at 6:32 pm

Tried it on both Chrome and firefox with the same result


Tony

  • Support Staff

January 31, 2017 at 2:30 am

What are you chanigng the permalink from and to?

Which EE plugins did you have activated?

I tested your steps above on multiple test sites and could not reproduce the same problem so need to try and narrow this down some, I can edit the duplicate permlinks at any time before/after publishing the events.

Its also possible for this to be a theme conflict, have you tried switching to a default theme and re-testing?

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