Splash of Style...Macs, Photography, Design, and other Passions

WordPress Automatically Redirects Revised Post Slugs

April 21, 2007 by debbieT | WordPress

This may be old news to some, but I accidentally noticed it after I recently updated one of my other blogs to 2.1.

WordPress has added a new feature to automatically redirect revised post URIs to the new page.

For example, if an article’s post slug was saved as “wordpress-redirects-new-post-titles” and weeks later, I decide that I want to change it to “wordpress-automatically-redirects-new-post-titles”, the old url will automatically be redirected to the new.

Try it!

One of my older articles original post URI is …/thunderbird-adding-a-new-address-book/

and I just edited the post slug so the new file name is …/thunderbird-adding-new-address-book/

So, even if you click on the old name, the post will automatically be redirected to the new name.

It doesn’t seem to be included in the list of changes for WordPress 2.1, but I found an article from the author of the original plug-in.

Note: this option does not appear to work with changes to actual permalink structure (Admin>Options>Permalinks). It would be a great idea for smaller sites, but if the site is large, and hundreds of links have to be redirected, I think it would put a strain on the server, wouldn’t it?

Leave a Comment

(Optional)

Subscribe without commenting