This functionality is beneficial when you already have existing pages and want to integrate them into LPagery and manage them with our plugin.

LPagery identifies pages by the post type, the slug and the parent. The parent is only taken into consideration when having hierarchical posts or pages. If all 3 attributes of an existing page are equal to a page that you would create with a new source file, LPagery finds the pages and lets you choose what should happen with the pages.

In this example, we have one existing page (Which was not created with LPagery) for Floor Cleaning in Brooklyn.

The slug for this page is “floor-cleaning-in-brooklyn”

Now, we create the source file like this:

Now our target is to update and integrate the existing page (“floor-cleaning-in-brooklyn”) into LPagery and the other pages we create with this source file.

We configure the creation form like this:

After clicking next, we receive a warning:

Here you can select what should happen with the existing pages.

We use the third option here to integrate the found page into our LPagery page set instead of creating a new one.

So we select “Updated” and click on “Create X Pages”.

Now we have created 3 pages and updated the existing one. This existing page is now managed by LPagery and you can update it like any other page you created with LPagery.