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You can do this by creating a Page alias. 

If you go here: YourDomain.com > Page Aliases then you can create page aliases. 

For a quick video on how this area works please go here.

 

Having the URL show a name would look like this: http://manual.websiteforge.com/Support_Home ( the use of spaces and any special characters is discouraged).  We recommend using an underscore"_" or combining the words (Google will separate them automatically)

The default URL for this page is http://manual.websiteforge.com/2.html

 

Using Aliases has a great SEO benefit as well.  Because it will add recognition to that page for what the page is.

 

Note: Creating the page alias does not automatically link your Site menu, or any other links on your site to your Aliased page.  You will need to manually re-link anything that is linked to the page you have created for your Alias.  Or you can enable a setting in your "Site Template & Settings" area called "Redirect to Aliases".  Which will automatically direct traffic to your newly created alias, regardless of the link for that page.

 

 

 

Page aliases can link to A Site Page, A Module Item, or A Module Category.

NOTE: Module items and Categories already use the "Title" in the URL to be identified.  

For example:

http://manual.websiteforge.com/5m2/dashboard.html?m2:nested=0

(the URL above will take you to the category "dashboard".  As you can see an alias is not needed in this scenario unless you want to force a different URL.)

If you were to create an alias for the Dashboard category, let's say we call it "Dashboard" that URL would look like this instead: http://manual.websiteforge.com/Dashboard

 

The same is true for items (Products, ADs, & Blog Posts)

 

To Create an alias First add an alias name.

Next click the "Select" to choose where this alias will link to.

The "Select Link" pop up will appear.  In this pop up you can choose if you are linking to a Site Page, Module Category or Module Item.

(In this example I'm linking to a Site Page named "Results".)

You have 2 options on the right.  "Redirect" and "Member-dependent". 
Redirect will take a user to the page number, and not keep the name as the URL.  In the example above if we select "Redirect" the URL would show up as Http://manual.websiteforge.com/7.html when the alias is used.

This is used when, say someone had an old page and they want to make redirects from the old pages to the new ones...  That way people who may have bookmarked - or results in search engines, will get sent to the new page.

 

Member-dependent will allow you to make aliases for specific users.  Once the "Member dependent" box is checked you will see available groups to select to allow access to this alias.

NOTE: if you only have the "Default Group" in your members area, then you will not see any options when selecing the "Member-dependent" option.

This is what it looks like when you have multiple member groups:

This is what it looks like when you ONLY have the "Default Group" in your Members & Group's area:

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