Atom feed invalid after initial install

[rubys]

Reproduction instructions: create a new WordPress blog. Immediately validate the Atom feed. The initial "This is your first post." post is without an id. Subsequent posts seem to have a correct id.

Suggested fix: default the id to the permalink. Should not break anything with a correct id.

Patch attached.

Perhaps we should manufacture a guid for them in wp_install_defaults() so that we can avoid the special case. I think we have enough info at that point in the install to create a decent guid.

We can just use:

$first_post_guid = get_option('home') . '/?p=1';

Or to be really safe, check the ID of the inserted row after we insert it, and update it.

After I create the database and create another post, I get an id of:

<id>​http://hostname/wordpress/2007/09/04/test/</id>

In general, should the id be based on, or independent of, the setting of Options => Permalink?

In ATOM feeds, the link with rel=alternate is the permalink. The ID is supposed to simply be a globally unique ID. The most important thing about the ID is that it never, ever, changes. It's not tied to your permalink structure, as such, it's simply a unique identifier which never changes.

This is why we use the post->guid field to store it. If the permalink structure changes, the ID field won't.

So the real problem here is what ryan and mark say, we don't set a post_guid for the first post in the wp_install_defaults().

+1 to mark's suggestion. Adding a simple /?p=1 will work just fine. I'd go so far as to suggest that we make the ID always use the /?p=XX link style, but that's outside the scope of this ticket.

Patch based on suggestion by markjaquith added.

(In [6052]) Set guid when creating first post during install. Props Nazgul and rubys. fixes #4894