Changing tab names – breaking links

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  mmojogold · Member · May 30, 2015 at 7:01 am

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  Hi,

  I currently have a tab ‘yoga holidays’ that lists all about my hosted holiday. I have a number of outside booking sites, adverts etc linked to this. It currently acts as the landing page for these sites.

  I need to now expand this to make way for business product expansion – we now will have hosted yoga holidays and independent yoga holidays. The problem of creating a parent with ‘yoga holidays’ and then 2 child tabs (hosted and independent) is that my current outside links wont work anymore or will land on the parent tab with no information.

  1) Any suggestions on how to best manage this change?
  2) Can I change the parent tab slug to ‘home yoga holidays’ and use the current ‘yoga holidays’ slug on a child tab called ‘hosted holidays’ without breaking the outside links?
  3) If not, is there anyway that I can run a report wp or outside – that advises where all these broken links exist so I can attempt to fix them?

  Thanks in advance
  Mariska

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · May 30, 2015 at 5:56 pm

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  Howdy Mariska!

  First off – the Yoga Holidays look amazing! :)

  If I understand correctly, the main issue is editing the tab/link to this page because it’s linked via other sites:

  http://exploreyogatravel.com/yoga-holidays/

  If changed, other sites would be linking to a broken page or a page without all of the information. Is that correct? If so, I think the option you mentioned in your initial inquiry is the best way to go.

  Can I change the parent tab slug to ‘home yoga holidays’ and use the current ‘yoga holidays’ slug on a child tab called ‘hosted holidays’ without breaking the outside links?

  Yep! You could change the slug on the current Yoga Holidays page to

  http://exploreyogatravel.com/home-yoga-holidays/

  That would open up the yoga-holidays slug to be used elsewhere. However, outside links currently linking to yoga-holidays would wind up on the new page and not home-yoga-holidays. Does that make sense?