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Modern Communication Site: Can't rename Site title
What happens, when you rename a communication site?
As it's not bound to a Office 365 Group, I just rename it in the classic way under Site Settings > Title. The new title gets accepted in the settings UI and changes in the frontend until I reload the page several times. After reload I'm back to the old title. I'm seeing same issues when editing the navigation settings over the inline edit control. Changes are here for a little while and dissapear then. Changes made to navigation over site settings are more likely to be persisted.
Thx for your inputs!
Best, Marcel
- Now in 2021, looks like MS has totally removed the option to rename a site!
Conax I can change the title of modern Communication Sites, using the Set-PnPWeb -Title "" command. it just keeps flipping back to the original title. Sometimes after days sometimes after a few minutes. I've tried switching off language settings in site and at the hub site level but with no luck. This is really strange. Anyone got any tips?
Thanks
RonanCillo8383What do you mean by "tried switching off language settings in site"? Did you remove alternate languages or just turn off the multilingual page properties setting? In the language settings of a communication site you have to click on Show advanced settings.
You don't need to do that, however it sounds like there is a mismatch between the site title in one language and the site title in other languages. There are different ways to change the site title in other languages, and "Set-PnPWeb -Title" is not one I would use, but it looks like you have a mismatch between languages.
You can use Gear Icon -> Site Information -> Site name, once for each language your site supports, or turn the multilingual page publishing feature back on, even temporarily, and use Gear Icon -> Site Information -> and click on "Translate site name" under "Site name (English)"
This worked for me:
- Go to site settings
- Remove support for all languages other than default
- Change title
- Add the additional languages you need
- The new title should be persistent (The first time the site is loaded using another language, the old title showed, but a refresh would use the new title)
Jon Andreas Ensrud Thank you, you made my day.
Jon Andreas Ensrud worked for me!
thanks!
Goob job, Thanks, this worked for me !
Had the same issue and was able to resolve using PowerShell PnP version 2.19.1710.0 (October, 2017 release).
I used Set-PnPTenantSite cmdlet
I've been refreshing the page for a few minutes now and it seems to be holding.
hmmm, set-pnptenantsite -url "http://tenantsomesite" - title "blabla" is not working
anybody an idea how to change the title of a modern communicationsite?
Is your site in english or another language?
Had the same issue. When I changed the site title in a french user/browser, it reverted back to what it was before. Changed to an english user/browser and voilà, it kept the change.
The base language of communication sites is english so it make sense.
Benoit
- Interesting...have you seen the same even when opening the site in an in private session?
just tried in a Chrome private session and it's the same. Can you rename one?
I'm having the same issue, at least now I know that I'm not alone!
