# Default text items with links to Guidelines page don't update if Guidelines topic title changed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303 "2020-10-05T20:06:55Z")
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### Author: ![paulrudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paulrudy/32/259901_2.png) [@paulrudy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paulrudy)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303/1 "2020-10-05T20:06:55Z")

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I changed the topic title for the FAQ/Guidelines page and consequently the page slug changed.

Discourse is set for a default guidelines page slug of `/guidelines`. Searching under Customize \> Text for “guidelines” brings up a 21 references to `[community guidelines](%{base_url}/guidelines)`, and these references don’t change if the page slug changes.

I’d like to suggest a method—admin field or automatic process—for updating those references if the guidelines page slug changes.

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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303/2 "2020-10-05T21:51:40Z")

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The topic slug doesn’t matter. `/faq` and `/guidelines` should always work. You can add an additional path as redirect if you want. E.g. if you want the FAQ to also be available under `/foo`, go to `/admin/customize/permalinks` and add a permalink.

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### Author: ![paulrudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paulrudy/32/259901_2.png) [@paulrudy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paulrudy)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303/3 "2020-10-05T21:54:47Z")

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Thank you. I _thought_ I had checked the links and found that `/guidelines` didn’t work if the slug had changed. But what I had actually checked was `/t/guidelines`.

Thanks for helping me understand.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-text-items-with-links-to-guidelines-page-dont-update-if-guidelines-topic-title-changed/166303/4 "2020-11-04T22:05:03Z")

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