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🛠️ Fix Website Studio Edits, URLs, and Author Metadata

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Camilo Aponte

Camilo Aponte

Last updated on Sep 30, 2026

🗺️ Overview

This article covers the most common Website Studio editing tasks: forcing edits on pillar pages the AI Agent redirects away from, correcting URL slugs, updating or removing author metadata, cloning content between URLs, removing legacy URLs from the database, and resolving dead URLs in your sitemap.

✏️ Edit a Pillar Page When Website Studio Redirects You Elsewhere

Website Studio's AI Agent occasionally suggests alternative pages instead of opening the pillar page you selected. This is a known routing issue that has been resolved in the latest platform update. If you still experience it, follow these steps to force the correct page open:

  1. In the left navigation, click Website Studio.
  2. In the page list, locate the pillar page you want to edit.
  3. Right-click the page title and select Open in editor, or click the pencil icon directly on the page row — do not use the AI Agent chat to navigate.
  4. If the editor still opens the wrong page, refresh the browser tab and repeat step 3. The direct icon click bypasses the agent routing.

Note: If the site-wide header dropdown reverts your changes after saving, save the page first, then refresh the editor before making additional edits. This prevents the revert behaviour linked to a previous header-editing bug.

🔗 Correct a URL Slug (Change '-blog-' to '/blog/')

Malformed slugs containing -blog- instead of /blog/ can hurt crawlability and internal linking. To correct a URL slug:

  1. Open the page in the Website Studio editor.
  2. Click the Publish / Settings button in the top-right corner of the editor. The slug, author, category, and tags fields will auto-fill from the existing article data.
  3. In the URL Slug field, replace the incorrect segment. For example, change your-site.com-blog-post-title to your-site.com/blog/post-title.
  4. Click Save or Update. Website Studio will update the canonical URL for that page.
  5. Repeat for each affected URL. Set up a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one to preserve SEO equity (see the Redirects section in Website Studio settings).

👤 Update or Remove Author Metadata

To replace an existing author (for example, removing Marcus Eriksson and replacing with Nestor Vazquez):

  1. Open the page in the Website Studio editor.
  2. Click Publish / Settings.
  3. In the Author field, clear the current name and type the replacement author's name. If your BrandVault is configured, the correct author options will appear as suggestions.
  4. Click Save or Update.
  5. To apply the same author change across multiple pages at once, contact support using the chat widget (see below) — bulk author reassignment requires a platform-side action.

📋 Clone Content Between Two URLs

If you need to copy the content of one page and publish it under a different URL:

  1. Open the source page in the Website Studio editor.
  2. Select all content in the editor body (Ctrl+A / Cmd+A) and copy it (Ctrl+C / Cmd+C).
  3. Navigate to the destination URL's page, or create a new page with the correct slug.
  4. Paste the content into the editor body.
  5. Update the slug, author, category, and tags in Publish / Settings as needed.
  6. Click Publish. The original page remains unchanged.

🗑️ Delete Legacy URLs from the Database

Legacy URLs that are no longer needed should be removed to keep your site database clean and avoid duplicate-content signals:

  1. In Website Studio, go to All Pages.
  2. Locate the legacy URL you want to remove. Use the search bar to find it by slug or title.
  3. Click the three-dot menu (⋯) on the page row and select Delete.
  4. Confirm the deletion in the prompt. The URL will be removed from your database.
  5. Important: Before deleting, ensure a 301 redirect is in place from the old URL to the correct destination to avoid broken links and ranking loss.

🗺️ Fix Dead URLs in Your Sitemap

Dead URLs in your sitemap prevent search engines from crawling your live content efficiently. To resolve them:

  1. In Website Studio, go to Settings > Sitemap.
  2. Review the list of URLs included in the sitemap. Dead URLs are typically pages that have been deleted or had their slugs changed without a redirect.
  3. For each dead URL, either restore the page, update the slug to match the live version, or add a 301 redirect to the correct live URL.
  4. Once the underlying pages or redirects are in place, click Regenerate Sitemap. The dead URLs will be replaced with their correct live counterparts.
  5. Resubmit the updated sitemap to Google Search Console to prompt a fresh crawl.

💡 Tips to Avoid These Issues in the Future

  • Always set URL slugs at the time of page creation — changing them later requires redirect management.
  • Keep your BrandVault author profiles up to date so the auto-fill feature populates the correct author on every new page.
  • Before deleting any URL, check your internal links and set up a redirect.
  • Use the direct editor icon in the page list instead of the AI Agent chat when editing specific pages, until the agent routing is fully stabilised.

🆘 Need More Help?

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.