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5. Change KB Permalinks, URL, and Article Slug

The Echo Knowledge Base consists of the KB Main Page, which displays a list of all categories and articles, and individual Article Pages. Below are instructions for modifying the URLs for the KB Main Page and Article Pages.

Here's what you can do:

If you have an existing page that contains KB shortcode and just want to update the URL, follow these steps:

 

Changes are not visible

If you do not see changes on the front end, please try the following:

  • Clear your website cache and browser cache.
  • Go to Admin →  Permalinks →  Click on Save Changes.

If you already have an existing page on which you want to show your Knowledge Base, just insert KB shortcode:

Changes are not visible

If you do not see changes on the front end, please try the following:

  • Clear your website cache and browser cache.
  • Go to Admin →  Permalinks →  Click on Save Changes.
Changes are not visible

If you do not see changes on the front end, please try the following.

  • Clear your website cache and browser cache.
  • Go to Admin →  Permalinks →  Click on Save Changes.

Follow these steps:

  1. 1. Go to admin > knowledge base > configuration > KB URLs.
  2. 2. Scroll down to "Knowledge Base URL" section at the bottom.
  3. 3. Choose the URL that matches your KB URL of the Main Page.
  4. 4. Save your settings.
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To set the Knowledge Base on your Home Page, follow these steps:

  1. 1. Go to admin > Settings > Reading page.
  2. 2. Choose a Static page option.
  3. 3. Choose the page where the knowledge base is located.
  4. 4. Save your settings.
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Read this short article about KB shortcode here.


The URL (page address, page link) is a unique address (location) of a webpage on the Internet, for example:
                           www.echoknowledgebase.com/wordpress-add-ons/

The Slug is the part of a URL that identifies a single page within a website using human-readable keywords:

Article full addres

  • Slugs are typically generated automatically by WordPress from a page title but can also be entered or altered manually.
  • When WordPress generates a slug it may optimize it for brevity and easy consumption by search engines. For example, a slug for the title “This, That & the Other!” will be “this-that-the-other”. Long page titles may also be truncated to keep the final URL to a reasonable length.
  • Slugs are generally entirely lowercase with words separated by dashes, for example echoknowledgebase.com/wordpress-add-ons/
 

Permalink

Permalink is a name for a permanent link (URL) that points to a specific webpage, post, archive, or any other page on a website. It is called permanent because this link should not change even if the underlying page ID in the database changes.

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