[wp-testers] URRGH: Page slugs

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Wed Nov 23 08:58:16 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 00:57 -0600, Sean Hayford O'Leary wrote:
> I frequently use WP as a whole-site CMS for smaller sites I design.
> Because of this, I naturally use the page function and a bug has been
> driving me out of my mind.
> 
> Say you have a site with four main sections
> /projects
> /about
> /creative
> /contact
> 
> So let's say the user wants to have a record of everything he did in
> 2005 for projects:
> /projects/2005
> 
> BUT, he also wants to do an archive of his published creative writing:
> /creative/2005
> 
> If anyone has tried to do this, you'll see the bug: it combines the
> two pages (as seen in this 1.5.2 installation:
> http://sdho.hayfordoleary.com/reading/2005 and
> http://sdho.hayfordoleary.com/documents/2005).
> 
> On the contrary, posts automatically add -2, -3, etc.. And with the
> "Singular" plugin, they just work and do not add the -2/-3/etc..
> 
> Is there a program-architectural reason why this is happening or can't
> be fixed, because this is a serious problem to anyone who uses Pages.

This was fixed for categories.  Maybe someone would like to fix pages
now.

Ryan



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