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Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#29858 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

Permalinks not redirecting from various types to setting value

Reported by: gmisura's profile gmisura Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.0
Component: Canonical Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

On a fresh install of WordPress4.0, I changed the permalink structure to "Day and Name" (i.e. yyyy/mm/dd/sample-post). If you go to /sample-post/ you are redirected to yyyy/mm/dd/sample-post (expected).

However, if you change the permalink structure to "Post Name" and you request the url: 2014/10/03/hello-world/ you are not redirected to /hello-world/ you get a 404 error.

I'd hope that is not intentional, and that this is a bug that can be fixed.

Looks like this extends to other settings:

Some additional testing shows there's a few more bugs:

permalink ?p=1 /yyyy/mm/dd/hello-world/ /yyyy/mm/hello-world/ /archives/1/ /hello-world/
default HTTP 200 HTTP 200 HTTP 200 HTTP 200 HTTP 200
Day & Name HTTP 301 HTTP 200 HTTP 301 HTTP 404* HTTP 301
Month & Name HTTP 301 HTTP 301 HTTP 200 HTTP 404* HTTP 301
Numeric HTTP 301 HTTP 301 HTTP 301 HTTP 200 HTTP 301
Post name HTTP 301 HTTP 404* HTTP 404* HTTP 404* HTTP 200

(The first column is the setting in wordpress, the top row is the requested URL).

I would expect HTTP 301 for all of the HTTP 404*'s

I poked around the code (though debugging at midnight with a 6am alarm is not smart) and putting in debugging statements, came to what I believe is a problem in query not recognizing the postname in the URL when it comes after dd. If I add ?name=hello-world, things start to act better (i.e. permalink setting: post Name, /yyyy/mm/dd/hello-world/?name=hello-world returns 301 and I get sent to /hello-world as expected).

My goal is to change a long existing blog from Day & name to Post name. For SEO reasons, /post-name should be canonical and all other links should redirect to it.

Change History (3)

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by jorbin. View the logs.


9 years ago

#2 @jorbin
9 years ago

@markjaquith and @dd32 - Could one of you triage this and see how much work it would take to ensure we redirect correctly here?

#3 @dd32
9 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

The root cause here is that is_singular() doesn't trigger a redirect if the query finds a valid permalink for a post.

The patches on #14773 / #12456 should fix this, marking as a duplicate of the latter, as it's the closest thing to it.

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