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Use a purpose-built robust slug record to help resolve old links #5118
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Originally created by @ssddanbrown on GitHub (Jan 14, 2025).
Describe the feature you'd like
Currently we resolve old page URLs by checking up the revisions and using their slugs to help locate changed/moved pages.
Revisions though may be cleared, and this system is limited in scope (to page links).
It would be better to create a purpose-built system for this, which tracks slugs off all entity types (pages, chapters, books, shelves) to provide a more reliable fall-back lookup for all.
Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users
Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?
This is the simplest implementation idea really to make things more robust.
Otherwise it's a pain to do this without a lot of manual tracking, or more added logical theme system implementation (which is possible but this should really be in core).
Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue?
How long have you been using BookStack?
Over 5 years
Additional context
As discussed in #3520. Related to many other URL based issues also I think.
@ajmarinmedina commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2025):
In addition to the system to manage these URLs, wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to easily modify the original slug? Perhaps there has been a title change but a shorter URL is desired. Something like Wordpress does, which allows you to decide whether or not you want to change the slug.
@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 24, 2025):
Added via #5913, to be part of the next feature release.
@ajmarinmedina There's an existing separate request for that here: #3902