[wp-testers] $post data's GUID

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

In the past, It was the current Permalink, I cant remember exactly when it  
changed, But changing it was one to make people not rely on it as much IIRC


On Tue, 18 May 2010 19:42:37 +1000, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)  
<philip at frumph.net> wrote:

> Yeah for some reason I have a bunch that are set to the non-permalink,  
> and
> not the /?p=
>
> for example here:  http://frumph.net/shop/?comic=736  i'm doing a  
> var_dump
> of $post->guid;
>
> a couple comics previous it's showing the same thing with the  
> $post->guid;
> where it's not the /?p= type,  cannot reproduce why they're setting to  
> the
> permalink structure, nor have I noticed it previous to this, however they
> are. /odd
>
>
>
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>
>> On Tue, 18 May 2010 16:32:47 +1000, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
>> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>>
>>> When changing the slug for a post is it supposed to modify the guid
>>> entry for the post as well?  currently it is not so it retains the old
>>> slug inside of it.
>>
>> The GUID should be set to the non-pretty-permalink uri, ie.
>> somesite.com/?p=345, You cannot rely on the guid field being a valid  
>> URI,
>> or being a valid entry point to a post, The fact it is a URI is merely
>> because its good unique identifier for posts.
>>
>> But no, I dont believe it should update it.
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