Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#36355 new defect (bug)
Article URL redirects no longer working
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.0 |
| Component: | Canonical | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
On multiple sites, we have started using article URLs with the post ID in them. Historically, this has allowed WordPress to find the post and do a 301 redirect when the slug, date, or other parts of the URL path changed.
For example, Permalink - %year%/%vertical%/%category%/%postname%-%post_id%/
All of these URLs should redirect us to this article: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-loud-house-premiere-date-video-nickelodeon-1201740128/
http://variety.com/2015/tv-news/news/the-loud-house-premiere-date-video-nickelodeon-1201740128/
http://variety.com/2015/tv-news/news/test-url-slug-1201740128/
http://variety.com/the-loud-house-premiere-date-video-nickelodeon-1201740128/
http://variety.com/2016/the-loud-house-premiere-date-video-nickelodeon-1201740128/
While the first 2 examples work correctly, the last 2 URLs land on 404 page inspite of correct %pagename%-%post_id% combination.
If we have Permalink - %year%/%vertical%/%category%/%postname%/
The last 2 structure work correctly and reach correct article page. For example - http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/03/28/lip-sync-battle-the-walking-dead-sasha-vs-maggie-video/
http://hollywoodlife.com/lip-sync-battle-the-walking-dead-sasha-vs-maggie-video/
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/lip-sync-battle-the-walking-dead-sasha-vs-maggie-video/
Since we have a correct %postname%-%post_id% combination in the first Permalink structure URL, we should be able to reach the correct article page in the last 2 examples there too.
Change History (3)
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8 years ago
No. I tested right from tag 3.0, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.3 and current trunk. And found that variety.com links fail to land on correct article page with a %post_id% part of the permalink structure.
Since Hollywoodlife.com links do not have %post_id% in permalinks, similar link structure there work fine and give us the correct article page.
@archanamandhare Welcome to Trac and thanks for the report!
Was 4.0 the last release under which you remember it working? Do you know when it stopped working?