Mangle vs Renamer

  • Resolved EAC2015

    (@eac2015)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hello – can you tell me if the mangling tool conflicts with the Media File Renamer plugin? And what does the mangle thing do? Just change the name of the attachment pages? Or change the name of the media files? Does it change the post name at all?

    Also is it possible for you to tell me what the below statement means? I don’t really understand it. What are non-unique slugs exactly, and what does “reserve slugs from pages” mean? Is this saying that the plugin may hide pages if they have a similar name to a slug?

    “There are xxxx attachments with non-unique slugs. With the plugin active, users can’t access these pages. However, these attachments may accidentally reserve slugs from your pages. It’s recommended to run the mangle attachments tool to prevent any potential issues in the future.”

    Thanks a lot.

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  • Plugin Author joppuyo

    (@joppuyo)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hello!

    This plugin does not change your file names, it only changes the post slug that is stored in the database. WordPress stores attachments in the same database table as pages and they have a slug just like pages. If you upload a file called example.jpeg, WordPress reserves the slug “example” for the attachment page. If you then create a page called “Example”, the slug for that will be “example-2” because the attachment has reserved the slug “example”.

    This plugin fixes that by changing the attachment slugs to something like “d41a82e25534412fa2838aee5bf05e53” so they cannot reserve slugs from pages. However, this happens only for attachments uploaded after the plugin has been installed.

    The “mangling” tool allows you to retroactively change the slugs to random ones for existing files so they won’t cause slug conflicts with pages in the future.

    I hope this clears things up!

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Great, thanks.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by EAC2015.
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