[wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on established WP install

[Mark Jaquith]

On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:43 AM, Dr Deviant wrote:

> One thing that bugs me a little abut the WP concept of   
> "Permalink"... is a permalink not a link that will always work in  
> your blog, and therefore not customisable? This would be the  
> index.php?p=1234 as this would always work.
>
> The "nice" url structure is not the permalink is it?

You're correct in that ?p=N is the most "perma" permalink format, as  
it *always* works.  Customizable permalinks are also permanent, but  
the onus is on the site admin to not suddenly change the permalink  
structure (or, if changing it, at least construct a mod_rewrite rule  
to redirect the old requests).

So... permalinks, unless you decide to intentionally break them.

<self_promotion>
The other instance where keeping "fancy" permalinks permanent is up  
to you is with editing of the post slug, after publishing a post.   
Normally that'd break the old link.  I wrote a plugin [1] to address  
that.  It keeps track of your slug changes on each post, and forwards  
people who hit the old one.
</self_promotion>
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[1] http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/redirect-old-slugs/

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Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/