"Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post's URL changes" doesn't work | ww.wp.xz.cn

patrikelfstrom
(@rcane)

11 years, 9 months ago

I don’t know if I have misunderstood this feature or if something is wrong but I’m looking for a plugin that when I change permalink of a post the plugin automatically creates a 301 redirect from the old permalink to the new.

And this line; “Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes” says what I’m after.

But if I create a post with the permalink http://example.com/my-post
and then changes it to http://example.com/something-else
http://example.com/my-post will no longer work and will return a 404 error.

Can someone else tell me if this works for you?

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/redirection/

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Thread Starter patrikelfstrom
(@rcane)

11 years, 9 months ago
I went thru the code and found this in models/monitor.php:30:
```
if ( $post->post_status != 'publish' || is_post_type_hierarchical( $post->post_type ) )
			return;
```
The first bit; If the post_status of the post is not publish don’t create a 301-redirect. Which makes sense since you don’t want users to get redirected to posts that are not public.

The last bit is something I am more curious about. is_post_type_hierarchical( $post->post_type ) checks wether the post type of the post is a hierarchical one. If it is, don’t create a 301-redirect.

A regular post is not hierarchical but a page is. So the automatic 301-redirect will only work on posts and not pages.

Can anyone tell me why it’s like this?

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