Change page name (URL part) for specific languages after page title change

[Moebius]

Here is situation.

I have multilanguage web site, e.g. default lanugage plus 2 additional languages.
I created all pages and fill content currently only for default language. So now I have 3 very similar URLs, for example for page with title About us:

• /about-us
• /de/about-us
• /fr/about-us

They all have same part "about-us" because the title of my default language page is: About us. And it's ok.

Now, when I start with filling content for alternative languages, this url property (Settings > name) does not change unless I manually edit it.
Basically when I change german title to "Über uns" and save it, name will not change to /de/uber-uns, it will remain as /de/about-us

I understand that it's desireable from SEO point of view, but during initial dev process I would like to force it to change it based on current language title.
Is it possible, did I miss something obvious?

[dragan]

That's just the way it works. Once a page is saved, you have to manually edit the page-name. Only when you first create it, it takes the title string and creates the name from that.

I guess the reasoning for this is that you shouldn't change page names too often, to avoid too many 403 errors.

There's a module, however, which probably does exactly what you want: https://modules.processwire.com/modules/page-rename-options/

[Moebius]

Thanks Dragan,

I already found it, looks like it doesn't work as excpected with multilanguage.

[dragan]

There's also an option in Batch Child Editor (for edit + upgrade modes): "overwrite names"

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Whether to overwrite the name of the page, and not just the title.

But of course, that's meant to be used as batch actions, so you'd always have to select a parent, to edit its children. On the page you're on (page-edit), it won't do anything on its own.

[kongondo]

Very late to this party...

Another possibility (just thinking out loud here) would be to set up a temporary hook that will make the changes for you behind the scenes on save page. You'd need to remember to remove the hook when done developing.