Cannot edit page-slug before publishing

screen capture of missing page slug/permalink

Confirmed.

Cannot reproduce. Screencast of page slug editing pre-publish

Related Forum thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164429

Experiencing the same problem here. I can create a screencast to prove it, since there seems to be an air of "works fine for me so isn't a problem".

What information do the devs need to help to actually pinpoint why this occurs on some systems and not on others?

It seems like the same process is applied on post-new.php and it works without a problem there. However, on page-new.php, that's where the issue is.

It appears the AJAX POST request to admin-ajax.php isn't coming back with a response. When the request, with action 'sample-permalink', is sent, nothing is received. Firebug just says "Loading..." when inspecting the current javascript processes.

I did make a ticket for this issue, and just found this ticket, I just want to add an information:

I have WordPress 2.5 work on 3 servers, two work well with the Page slug (dedicated servers) and another is a hosting from 1and1 where the Page slug does not work.

Reproduced with PHP 4.3.3, but not with 5.2.3. It may be specific to the PHP version.

Issue produced with 4.4.8 Non with 5.2.5

Requirement for WP2.5 perhaps should be PHP 5, j/k

seconded link2caro, problem does not appear to be in PHP 5.2.5

I'm running WP 2.5 on the Media Temple grid server, PHP 5.2.5.

I came across this ticket because I was having this exact problem with a page I built last week - couldn't get the edit slug link to appear until after I'd published.

BUT Ive just tried to recreate it and suddenly.. its working fine. I have no clue what I did differently, but Ive made no changes to any of the files on my server since before I noticed the problem. I don't think Ive deactivated any plugins in the meantime, but I'll look into that a bit further when I get a chance...

I have this problem as well on WP 2.5.1 on PHP 4.4.1.

Although I am not very familiar with the WP internals, I have come up with two possible workarounds. These work for me, but could damage your system so be careful. I believe Approach 1 is safer because it only changes the presentation on the Javascript level, whereas Approach 2 messes with the internals of a PHP function.

Approach 1: Re-enable the slug field for pages. In the file wp-admin/js/page.js, change the line

jQuery('#pageslugdiv').hide();

to

// jQuery('#pageslugdiv').hide();

Approach 2: Try to fix the permalink box for draft pages. In the file wp-admin/includes/post.php, change the following lines

		$uri = get_page_uri($post->ID);
		$uri = untrailingslashit($uri);
		$uri = strrev( stristr( strrev( $uri ), '/' ) );
		$uri = untrailingslashit($uri);
		if ( !empty($uri) )
			$uri .='/';
		$permalink = str_replace('%pagename%', "${uri}%pagename%", $permalink);

to

		if (in_array($original_status, array('draft', 'pending'))) {
			$permalink = '%pagename%';
		} else {
			$uri = get_page_uri($post->ID);
			$uri = untrailingslashit($uri);
			$uri = strrev( stristr( strrev( $uri ), '/' ) );
			$uri = untrailingslashit($uri);
			if ( !empty($uri) )
				$uri .='/';
			$permalink = str_replace('%pagename%', "${uri}%pagename%", $permalink);
		}

Having compared the post.js file with the page.js file the jQuery commands are specified in a different order. I cannot reproduce this issue but have attached a patch the alters the command order in page.js to match the order in post.js

This might be worth applying and testing.

Milestone 2.5.2 deleted

Also a bug (with 2.6) on PHP 4.3.9 but not seen on 5.2.5.

I applied the patch diff (to the broken one) but it had no effect.