id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
15397,redirect_guess_404_permalink() purposedly doesn't guess posts with updated dates,archon810,,"'''Problem'''

Here's my post path scheme: http://site.com/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/SLUG. Whenever I have writers working on a post for a while and saving drafts (we're all using Windows Live Writer), they oftentimes publish to the date when the last draft was saved, i.e. several days in the past. Then, they quickly correct the date but the previously tweeted/shared link is now 404 due to the changed date.

I've looked into the source of redirect_guess_404_permalink(), and it purposedly narrows down the query when it sees a post date to that date only. If I understand correctly, this is done to minimize accidental redirects to the wrong post, but has the side effect of not guessing the new link if only the date was changed.

A workaround of removing these lines:
{{{
  if ( get_query_var('year') )
    $where .= $wpdb->prepare("" AND YEAR(post_date) = %d"", get_query_var('year'));
  if ( get_query_var('monthnum') )
    $where .= $wpdb->prepare("" AND MONTH(post_date) = %d"", get_query_var('monthnum'));
  if ( get_query_var('day') )
    $where .= $wpdb->prepare("" AND DAYOFMONTH(post_date) = %d"", get_query_var('day'));
}}}

fixes the problem for me.

Can this case be solved in the trunk and the code above removed, or logic improved? My .htaccess file is filled with 301 redirects to correct wrong dates.

Thank you.",enhancement,new,lowest,Future Release,Canonical,,normal,,has-patch dev-feedback,admin@… wordpress@…