I checked “Monitor changes to posts”
For “URL Monitor Changes” I selected “Modified Posts”
For “Create associated redirect (added to URL)” I put in “/redirected”
I then went in and changed the publication date of one of the posts from “/2017/12/14/gallery-only-test/” to “/2017/12/16/gallery-only-test/”
When I put “[website]/2017/12/14/gallery-only-test/” into my browser it says “The page you requested cannot be found”
What am I doing wrong?
I don’t think you need an associated redirect in this instance.
Without being able to see things it’s hard to say. However, when I enable ‘monitor changes to posts’, and set a group and then change the date on a post a new entry is added into the list of redirects.
Are you running other plugins for your edit workflow? If it’s possible to temporarily disable them then you can test to see if something else is causing a problem.
I can understand a plugin interfering with a redirect. But would it interfere with the plugin CREATING the redirect? I turned all plugins off. Did a test. Redirection worked. Turned on one plugin. Did a test on same post moving it forward a day. Redirection failed. Turned that plugin off. Did a test on same post moving it forward another day. Redirection failed. All plugins are off except for Redirection. Still not creating redirects. Theme is Divi with a child theme.
It could interfere with Redirection detecting that a post URL has changed.
Are you editing posts through the standard WordPress editor? Are you using quick edit mode?
I have edited through both. Is one preferred?
Hello? Is one preferred? Is it not advised to use the Quick Edit? Or the regular edit to change the date of publication? Which one works better with the Redirection plugin?
I thought I’d replied to this, but it seems I hadn’t.
The current version of the plugin doesn’t work in quick edit mode, but version 3.0 does. You can find a beta version here:
https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/releases/tag/3.0-beta-1
