Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 4 months ago
#41616 new enhancement
REST API: Expose old slugs
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Milestone: | Future Release | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.8.1 |
Component: | REST API | Keywords: | needs-patch needs-unit-tests good-first-bug |
Focuses: | rest-api | Cc: |
Description
Expose the old slugs for all posts including custom post types in the REST API.
For example, when building a React-powered app using the WordPress REST API the old slugs are required so that users can be automatically redirected if they clicked on an old link.
To expose the old slugs I created a small plugin (see below):
<?php add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'expose_old_slugs_in_api' ); function expose_old_slugs_in_api() { $post_types = get_post_types( array( 'show_in_rest' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => true ) ) ; $args = array( 'get_callback' => 'get_old_slugs_for_api', 'schema' => null ); foreach ($post_types as $type) { register_rest_field( $type, 'old_slugs', $args ); } } function get_old_slugs_for_api( $object ) { //get the id of the post object array $post_id = $object['id']; //return the post meta return get_post_meta( $post_id, '_wp_old_slug' ); }
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I see no reason not to add this, so long as it's only available in the
edit
context.