Title: GUID for posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# GUID for posts

 *  [ziddey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziddey/)
 * (@ziddey)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/)
 * Hi. I migrated servers and upgraded from 1.2.2 to 1.5 at the same time. So my
   url is different now. However, I did a mysql db copy and upgrade and there are
   some kinks. Also, currently, the guid for all the posts still is for the url 
   of the old website, and not the new one. It doesn’t seem to have an effect but
   it still bugs me a little

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-140431)
 * This should help:
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
 *  Thread Starter [ziddey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziddey/)
 * (@ziddey)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-140434)
 * i have altered those. but the guid’s for all the posts are still old. do they
   do anything?
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-140437)
 * GUIDs are permanent, they’re just for aggregators to know that a post is unique.
   They shouldn’t change even if you move your site around. GUID stands for globally
   unique identification.
 *  [cailean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cailean/)
 * (@cailean)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141128)
 * I have the same problem…
 * k, so I altered the siteurl in the DB as suggested at tamba2.org… the only link
   that seems to fix is the login link now points to the correct URL all links to
   posts and pages point to [http://www.oldurl.com/?p=x](http://www.oldurl.com/?p=x)
   which is the value of the GUID… Please tell me I don’t have to go through and
   manually change all the GUIDs…
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141129)
 * Rebuild your .htaccess file…. I had a problem recently where I moved a copy of
   my site to a new location. Things didn’t work right until I rebuilt the .htaccess
   file.
 * -tg
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141130)
 * You should never change GUIDs, they should be permanent forever.
 *  [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/)
 * (@xander)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141141)
 * What if I don’t like my GUIDs… can anyone ever see them? Do they matter at all?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141142)
 * “_What if I don’t like my GUIDs_“
 * You don’t have to like them… 🙂
 * As Matt notes above (twice), there’s no reason to change them. Your RSS feeds
   are the only place the information is put to use (for the benefit of aggregators
   and some syndication readers).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guid-for-posts/#post-141142)
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