Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #47954
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- 08/30/2019 10:18:26 PM (6 years ago)
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Ticket #47954 – Description
initial v2 1 One of the most common problems is when people change the site URL fields on the settings general screen, without full understanding of what it means. 1 One of the most common problems is when people change the site URL fields on the settings general screen, without full understanding of what it means. It's a common enough problem that we've had documentation on ways to fix it for ages: 2 3 https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/ 2 4 3 5 The idea is to enhance this field so as to perform some kind of sanity check before actually changing the fields. Health check exists, we have checks for plugin and theme changes to some degree. This could be checked as well. 4 6 5 Concept: Change the field, make an internal request, see if it fails, if so change them back, the mwarn the user with a "hey, this change seems like it's gonna break things real bad, are you really sure?" Or equivalent.7 Concept: Change the field, make an internal request, see if it fails, if so change them back, then warn the user with a "hey, this change seems like it's gonna break things real bad, are you really sure?" Or equivalent. 6 8 7 9 Second thought: when these change, email the admin user about them, with a revert link that will work no matter what.