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New post titles aren't saving for the page title and URL
When users create a new page, the page URL is something like https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/Region/SitePages/Page(6).aspx instead of the title of the post.
I see there's now a new location to set the page title. Why is this necessary and why has the inherit function of setting the page title as the title of the post gone away? Why does Microsoft continue to make our work increasingly less productive requiring users to take more steps to do less work?
Is there a site setting somewhere to re-enable setting the page title to the title of the post?
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Anthony-123 I completely agree with you. The page shouldn't be auto-saved until you have provided a Title at which time it will set the Page URL correctly. Ideally, it should prompt you to specify a Title as soon as you create the page.
Unfortunately, this is inherently going to be much worse once Microsoft rolls out the new Page Templates. It will also make a complete mess of the Site Assets > Site Pages > Page(X) dynamic folders that hold your page assets, etc.
I'm not sure how most of the stuff rolling out these days gets past QA - it's been getting steadily worse over the last 1 - 1.5 years.
The page URL no longer automatically uses the post title is due to the SharePoint Online “Banner” title area update rolled out in 2024. This update decouples the page’s visible title from the file name to allow more flexible layouts (including no title banner or multiple banners) and improve accessibility
Improvements to the title area at the top of SharePoint Pages and News | Microsoft Community Hub
The new design requires authors to set the page title explicitly (either on the page or via the command bar field). The system will generate the file name from that title only the first time the page is saved. And in some cases this auto-generation doesn’t occur, leaving a default “Page#.aspx” name
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-use-modern-pages-on-a-sharepoint-site-b3d46deb-27a6-4b1e-87b8-df851e503dec#:~:text=
