Title: Redirection breaking for posts with modified URLs
Last modified: July 31, 2017

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# Redirection breaking for posts with modified URLs

 *  Resolved [Webreaper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webreaper/)
 * (@webreaper)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-breaking-for-posts-with-modified-urls/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve noticed that quite a few pages on my site are hitting 404s. It looks like
   this is happening when a post URL is edited, e.g.:
 *  /2017/06/how-to-fix-my-car
    changes to /2017/06/fix-car
 * Now, my understanding was that WordPress is supposed to automatically track post
   URL history, and if the URL is changed, automatically redirect to the new one–
   so that you can clean up verbose or incorrect URLs without prejudice. It doesn’t
   appear to be happening though.
 * I installed the Redirection plugin ([https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/))
   a few months ago to add some ‘short URL’ style redirects in for tersley deep-
   linking to the site – is it possible that the plugin is breaking the automatic
   tracking of modified URLs? Currently I am using its 404 log tool to add redirections
   manually to fix these issues, but it feels like I shouldn’t have to do this.
 * Any idea what might have happened, and how to fix it?
 * And while we’re at it, are there any good tools that will report broken links?
   I tried the Broken Link Checker plugin, but it didn’t report any broken links–
   despite the fact that there were internal 404s that have been found, logged (
   and subsequently fixed) via the Redirection plugin.

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 *  [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdabber/)
 * (@jdabber)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-breaking-for-posts-with-modified-urls/#post-9368597)
 * I would try disabling the 404 plugin. Don’t delete it! Then try changing the 
   url of a test page to see if it works now. If it does, the plugin is conflicting
   and you should reach out to the plugin author.
 *  Thread Starter [Webreaper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webreaper/)
 * (@webreaper)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-breaking-for-posts-with-modified-urls/#post-9372365)
 * Turned out that was the problem. Disabled redirection, and the modified post 
   urls started working again.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-not-working-for-posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-not-working-for-posts)

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