Major bug? Changing Date destroys permalink?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    15 years, 2 months ago

    If the month is part of your permalink and you change the month on the post date, then yes, the permalink will change. However, canonical redirects should allow the old permalink to continue to work (I think).

    That said, you can also just not use the month in your permalinks. I prefer to use just %year%/%postname% for mine.

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks… well, too late to change the permalinks. What are canonical redirects? Is that an .htaccess thing?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Canonical redirects is a system built into WordPress that tries to detect bad URLs, figure out where they are supposed to be going, and then redirect them there.

    It works, sometimes. Can’t catch everything.

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