Title: Draft Permalinks Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Draft Permalinks * Resolved [PM Rafael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pm-rafael/) * (@pm-rafael) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/) * I’ve got a problem that I can’t seem to solve. * When posts are being added, and the draft is auto saved with no title, the permalink gets generated from the post id. The problem is that when you add a title, and publish the post, the auto created permalink stays as the post ID and not changed to the post title. I can go back and manually change it, but others don’t want to do this extra step. * If I disable the plugin, the behavior goes back to normal. It seems to be something preventing that when the plugin is enabled. * Any help? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/page/2/?output_format=md) * [NAROLLES](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narolles/) * (@narolles) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890800) * I’ve the same problem * [G.Jonsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gudmundur/) * (@gudmundur) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890821) * I’ve the same problem, but seems to be fixed with 3.0.7 update of the plugin. * [NAROLLES](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narolles/) * (@narolles) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890823) * Thanks but the plugin is update before my comment the problem is major when you write the text(post) before title thanks * Thread Starter [PM Rafael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pm-rafael/) * (@pm-rafael) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890871) * The new update didn’t seem to work for me. Anyone else had any luck solving this? Is there something in Yoast I can just turn off? * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890879) * Same problem over here. With Yoast SEO activated, WordPress “freezes” posts’ permalinks as soon as they’re first automatically generated on draft mode. Then, if you make any change to the title before publishing, the permalink stays the same. * This is very bad. :-/ * [aljuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aljuk/) * (@aljuk) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890884) * I just experienced the same problem on a real estate website in multiple languages( WPML). I have many posts with identical titles (e.g. “3 bedroom house in town_name”). New additions have been assigned the exact URL of already-existing posts (i.e. the sequential numbering of post slugs like -2, -3, -4 etc. has not occured) causing tons of redirects and 404s. Disabe the plugin, and everything works properly. * The “fix” I found is: 1. Go to the main posts list in wp-admin 2. Pick a problematic post and “Quick edit” 3. Delete the slug string 4. Click “Update”. The correct slug is then generated. I tried this in the individual post edit screen, but it didn’t work. It has to be via “Quick Edit” * Also, the plugin is not removing stop-words when the posts are initially saved as draft. * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890893) * Any chance of this being fixed on the plugin’s next version? * I’m almost disabling it, only because of it. * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890910) * No response from the plugin developer, no ETA for a fix. 🙁 * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890915) * Doesn’t seem to have been fixed on 3.1, even with changes related to posts’ slugs. Bugger. * [kitchin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitchin/) * (@kitchin) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890916) * Anyone here clueful on WP’s changes to draft handling? IIRC something changed recently in a major version. * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890917) * 3.1.1 released today. Bug still not fixed. * [fciotola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fciotola/) * (@fciotola) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890921) * I have the same problem too. * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890922) * And according to 3.1.2’s release notes, bug still not fixed either. * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890924) * Installed 3.2.3 today. Bug still not fixed; unbelievable. 🙁 * [Rafael Fischmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfischmann/) * (@rfischmann) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-permalinks/#post-6890927) * And, of course, 3.2.4 is out without any fix for this. 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