WordPress: Did you Know?
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That if you change your URI after a post has been published, the old URI continues to work while the links are changed to the new one?
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Ian Stewart (17 comments.) — 06/21/2008 @ 10:24 pmThats interesting, I was using redirection to fix that problem.. but I had the problem of changing domains, so I have lots of broken redirects from my old domain.
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Blog2Life (3 comments.) — 06/21/2008 @ 11:05 pmI didn’t know that.
But will it work forever or there is a time period or something for checking it?
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ajua (19 comments.) — 06/21/2008 @ 11:19 pmnow.. thats new. I’m not sure that’s a good news or not. I have many changes to my URI before and I hope it still lead to my blog.
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papajoneh (1 comments.) — 06/21/2008 @ 11:21 pmYeah, I informed my co-worker of that. He said, “If I change the page name, will it still work?”
“Yeah, but you might still try it.”
“Dude! It does work.”
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Jacob Santos — 06/21/2008 @ 11:39 pmfound that out by accident cause sometimes i sleep on a post and come up with a new name the next day and never changed anything else
but realised links and pages still worked for me
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kim (6 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 1:42 amthat is news for me. thanks for the notes
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ChaosKaizer (60 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 2:17 amDidnt know that! Good to know.
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Mike (1 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 3:27 amyes, i know,
because i changed my URI for my posts and when i click on “Go back” after saving, it worked
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srinivas (2 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 4:47 amI took on the challenge of moving Tjuvlyssnat.se (one of the most popular blogs in Sweden) from Typepad to self-hosted WordPress back in January 2007. Since then, I have worked with the site and spent a lot of time analyzing the large amount of visitor statistics from before and after the switch.
There is no doubt that WordPress made a dramatic difference and improvement at that time, it was better than Typepad both in point-to-point comparisations and in actual performance. It is a very solid conclusion. However, it is based on how Typepad worked 1,5 years ago so I am not able to compare the two systems as they work today. I haven’t really looked back.
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Andreas Viklund (1 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 5:02 amSometimes that redirect even works if you create a page out of a post.
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Kristin (4 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 5:15 amNope, I didn’t. But thanks a lot for sharing! That’s pretty awesome
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Søren Hugger Møller (1 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 6:31 amThanks
I was aware it worked on pages, but had no idea how it did it. Is it somehow written into the database or is it one of those .htaccess things?
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Mosey — 06/22/2008 @ 6:47 amOh wow that pretty neat. I did not know that.
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Jenny (25 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 9:27 amWell, this is could be a discovery or an accidental invention, either ways it’s nice to be aware of.
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Arian Xhezairi (8 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 10:22 amI have made a suggestion regarding URL redirection over at wordpress.org ideas, click here to check it out:
http://wordpress.org/extend/id.....hp?id=1579
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amolpatil2k — 06/22/2008 @ 10:32 amI’ve seen it on my dashboard. It looks pretty annoying and confusing. At first I thought I had done wrong with it and re-posted different URI.
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K — 06/22/2008 @ 4:12 pm‘Bout time! Takes a headache away.
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Drew (2 comments.) — 06/22/2008 @ 10:10 pmDidn’t know
Cheers for the heads-up.
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Daniel (2 comments.) — 06/23/2008 @ 3:16 amThat is seriously something I didn’t know. Thanks a lot for the heads up! I thought the Redirection plugin was behind all this… I guess I don’t really need the plugin anymore
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BoltClock (22 comments.) — 06/23/2008 @ 5:00 amYep I knew that, stumbled across it totally by ‘accident’ once as I messed up the uri a bit, fixed it and still had the page on the old uri when I refreshed. It’s one hella convenient feature :D.
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Slevi (7 comments.) — 06/23/2008 @ 7:05 amThe WordPress coders seem to lay down their featureset with the web publishers’ peace of mind as a paramount priority… wow!
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Claude Gelinas (22 comments.) — 06/24/2008 @ 10:31 amYes, I did know that!
I found out when I clicked on an old link of mine and it still worked!
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Christine (1 comments.) — 06/24/2008 @ 11:42 amThanks a lot. Good to know! One more plus to Wordpress.
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Ilya (1 comments.) — 06/24/2008 @ 5:13 pmWhat version of WP is it added in? I remember last time I did that (probably 2.3 or 2.1), the link stopped working.
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Artem Russakovskii (1 comments.) — 06/25/2008 @ 12:46 amNope, I did not know that. Thanks
That’s great news, now I don’t have to worry if I decide to change permalinks for certain posts…
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Hannes — 06/25/2008 @ 10:18 amHandy to know.
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