PageRenameOptions

Processwire module determining how pages are renamed when the title is changed

WARNING

This module may break links to your site because changes to the page's name also change its URL! You REALLY should install Page Path History (core module) to prevent possible broken links.

Introduction

The default behavior of this module is to have the page name always match changes to the page title, but allow the user to manually edit if they want. Further options allow you to protect initial differences (changes you may have made as a user with an exempt role), completely disable manual changes, or protect manual name changes from subsequent changes to the title while editing.

Please test the behavior of each setting thoroughly so you understand what each one does!

Please let me know if you have any further requirements around permissions / role access to the module's functionality.

CONFIG SETTINGS

Automatically rename the name field to match the title

• This is probably the reason you installed this module. You might potentially want to uncheck this when your site is live. You could also uncheck this in conjunction with the "Prevent Manual Changes" option to prevent users from editing the page name. There is now an optional "page-rename" permission in ProcessWire, but the combinations here are still potentially more configurable.

Only rename unpublished pages

• This is a great option if you want to make names match titles until the point that the page is published. After this, changes will not be automatically made.

Exclude or include specified templates or pages

This setting determines with the specified pages or specified templates are specifically included or excluded.

Specified Pages

• Pages that are either included or excluded from the actions of this module. If excluded is selected in the Exclude/Include setting, changing the titles of selected pages will behave as though this module is not installed.

Specified Templates

• Templates of pages that are included or excluded from the actions of this module. If excluded is selected in the Exclude/Include setting, changing the titles of selected pages will behave as though this module is not installed.

Initial Differences Protected

• If checked, further changes to the name (to match a changing title) will not happen if the name is already different from the title (evaluated on page edit initial load).

Prevent Manual Changes

• If checked, it won't be possible to manually edit the name.
• If checked, this will disable the "Live Changes Protected" setting since it won't be possible to make any manual changes.

Live Changes Protected

• If checked, further changes to the name (to match a changing title) will not happen if the name field was manually changed at any time during the current page edit.

Support forum:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7724-page-rename-options/

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

(See included LICENSE file for full license text.)