Because post ids are used for revisions, autosave, pages, and attachments, don’t expect your post ids to be sequential.
There are plugins that will disable the revision and autosave but pages and attachments will always use post ids.
i’ve disabled revision and i dont have any pages or attachments so i just need to disable autosave as i don’t need it..
how do i change what number is used next so i can have my next post be 3?
As far as I was aware, it’s linked to an ID in the database table which is (presumably) incremented automatically by Mysql. So the short answer would be “You can’t”.
Why not just use custom permalinks instead?
like i said in my first post i can’t find out where to change the custom permalinks in 2.8
Admin/Settings/Permalinks
like i said in my first post i want to change a POSTS permalink the the way permalinks work
Hi,
Refer this and set your desired permalinks:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
If your old posts gets 404 error message then add this code in htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Thanks,
Shane G.
but again i’m not talking about how to change permalinks i’m talking about how to change a post specific permalink
you cant change ONE post’s permalink. You CAN change the slug, thusly :
edit the slug. its RIGHT there when you create a post or edit a post.
I’m having a similar problem to the original poster here, and whooami, no I can NOT change the slug. I just upgraded from 2.7.x to 2.9.2 – previously when I hit the permalink edit button I was able to change the slug part of the link, but now I can’t.
My permalinks are set to:
/%postname%-%author%-%post_id%/
The part of the URL that can be changed (the “postname” part) is highlighted in the Edit Post page, but hitting the Edit buttons does nothing at all. I can’t edit that part of the URL and I MUST be able to do that.
What is the problem? The edit button is there and the section that I should be able to change is highlighted, yet I cannot edit it.
This is a very big deal on my site, I need HELP.
Thanks,
Vic
UPDATE:
I found the solution. You have to go into “Screen Options” at the top of the page and check “Post Slug.” The post slug is now edited on a different part of the page. Once that’s visible, when you click on edit permalink it takes you to that field.
vich11 – unfortunately not working for me- I ticked page slug and yes the last part of the URl appears, but I want to edit the directory immediately before the page slug
ie http://mydomeain.com/thisdirectory/page-slug
can’t seem to get access to ‘thisdirectory’ any way I try
where abouts in the database is this stored?
