Page properties

»General«

• Page: In the rare case that you want to change the page type of an existing page, click on the Type drop-down menu, where you will see all the page types available to you.
• Title: Here you edit the page title, the URL segment and, if necessary, the navigation title.
  • The Page Title is visible in the frontend navigation as well as in browser tabs. You can edit this area if you want to change the page title.
  • URL Segment: explained below.
  • Navigation icon: explained in this tutorial.
  • Alternative Navigation Title: This edit is useful if the page title is too long for the navigation.
  • Specifying a Subtitle is generally not necessary and has a purely organizational function for professionals.

URL segment

(In TYPO3 8 LTS, this section used to be edited within the Yoast SEO tab. See the tutorial for the older version.)

At this point, the URL of each subpage is represented by the system and can also be actively controlled by you as an editor.

This is useful, for example, if you want to replace the long strings after a domain name and make your links more readable (also relevant for the result list of a search engine).

IMPORTANT: Every subpage of your website needs a path segment! It is therefore crucial that you do not create identical URLs or shorten URLs to your domain path! We also recommend you watch the introductory video of TYPO3 GmbH for more information.

Create an URL segment

• In our screenshot, the segment of a blog post with the page title »Your 'Why' changes constantly« is being revised. TYPO3 has automatically generated a URL corresponding to the page title, which is displayed in the URL path /blog/ with your-why-changes-constantly.
• First, click on the right-hand icon Eye + Link (Toggle manual URL Segment) to activate the input mask.
• Enter your desired URL. In our example, the URL is now renamed to the shorter, more handy /blog/constant-change.
• Save your changes.

Update an URL segment

• If you have renamed a page title, copied a page together with a page title or if you want to undo the override described above, the TYPO3 system can actively generate a URL.
• To do this, click on the refresh button (Recalculate URL segment from page title) at the far right of the input mask.
• For this purpose, as described above, the (new) page title is accessed and a clean URL is generated – possibly also with higher-level pages (in our example »/blog/«).
• CAUTION! With TYPO3 Version 10, all sub-pages of a corresponding page are automatically updated with the new URL. In addition, a temporary redirect (status: 307) is set. If you want to edit this into a permanent redirect (status: 301), click here.
• Save your changes.

Undo changes

If you have renamed a page title in your toujou backend, a blue info box will appear automatically in the upper right margin informing you of the change in the URL structure. You have three options:

• Click the X and an automatic redirect (status: 307) will be set from the old URL to the new one and all subpages of the page will be updated with the new URL.
• Clicking Revert Update will undo the automatic redirect as well as the update of the subpages' URLs.
• Clicking Revert redirects only undoes the automatic redirect. However, the update of the URLs of the subpages remains.

New: »Notes«

• This tab serves as an editorial support if you want to enter notes, reminders or a to do list that relate to a single page.
• Simply enter your text into the mask Description.