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#11879 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Redirect in merged files instead of pure deletion?
| Reported by: | TobiasBg | Owned by: | ryan |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | General | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | dev-feedback |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
Just a quick though that crossed my mind:
With the recent merging of files into other files, due to the Custom Post Typoes support (i.e. [12708], [12702] and more from #9674), several files like page.php, page-new.php have been deleted.
This could potentially break backward compatibility for some plugins that link to these files (i.e. a plugin that has a link to "create a new page").
My suggestion: Instead of plain deleting them, they could be reduced to something like a PHP redirect (header()) to the correct new page (with passed parameters from the query string conserved).
I.e. page.php could contain a header redirect to post.php?post_type=page(+rest of query string).)
At the same time the redirect should be marked as deprecated, so that noboby will set new links to it, but use the correct new file.
We can add them later if needed. Right now I want to see what breaks with them removed.