[wp-hackers] Unique Stubs

[Viper007Bond]

And apparently Singular DOES indeed work, so problem semi-solved.

On 2/7/08, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
>
> When the permalink structure is changed (which is a fairly bad for SEO
> btw), we could have it check for collisions and add in suffixes as needed.
> WordPress already supports redirecting old stubs to new ones, so there ya
> go.
>
> Just drives me nuts that when I happen to make a post with the same name
> as like a year ago, it sticks a suffix on it. :(
>
> On 2/6/08, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Viper007Bond wrote:
> >
> > > For the longest time, WordPress would stick like a "-2" onto the end
> > > of the
> > > stub if I tried to use "hello-world" again. Singular (
> > > http://jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/singular/ ) fixed this issue.
> > >
> > > However, IIRC, didn't we at some point change this so that it would
> > > only do
> > > it if there was an actual URL collision? i.e. it was changed to
> > > allow this:
> > >
> > > Post #1: http://example.com/2008/02/05/hello-world/
> > > Post #2: http://example.com/2008/02/06/hello-world/
> >
> >
> > As I recall, that was discussed -- someone may have even made a patch,
> > but I don't think it went in.
> >
> > One issue we identified was that if your permalink structure is
> > changed to something less specific (like to /year/month/slug/), you
> > could introduce collisions.  Of course you'd have to redirect to the
> > new URL structure, so maybe people with enough know-how to do that can
> > also resolve slug conflicts.
> >
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