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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: random post-IDs instead of auto_incremented onesSomeone already put it in more elaborate words:
http://www.brianp.net/2009/10/06/sequentially-assigned-ids-and-giving-away-competitive-intelligence/Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: random post-IDs instead of auto_incremented onesI often even (have to) use the post ID in the prettified URL because my authors sometimes change the slug (especially when they make typos like “obama” instead of “osama” and vice versa) and then WordPress’ automatic redirect sometimes would end up pointing to the wrong post.
Any chance this feature (random ID numbering) could end up in WP? Or maybe move this topic to “plugins and hacks” or “hacks”? Thanks.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: random post-IDs instead of auto_incremented onesThanks for you reply. I already guessed that it would mean some core hacking. Maybe I’ll look into it. Maybe it just means coding a function that generates a random ID and checks if it’s unused. *optimisticthinking*
In the first place I was just wondering if nobody else had a problem with the way IDs are employed/deployed.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: random post-IDs instead of auto_incremented onesWith a vanilla WP the IDs can’t be hidden effectively, AFAIK. You can always loop through N on http://www.example.com/?p=N .
For me it’s a privacy issue. I don’t want people to be able to estimate what is going on behind the scenes of my site, how many drafts/revisions I’m on, what articles were started before article N. That’s all more or less. Enough reason for me. Hope you can understand.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: random post-IDs instead of auto_incremented onesI don’t want to renumber; I would like to hide the IDs by using a plug-in (via mapping or something) OR (rather for a new blog) I would like to have a random ID for each posting/page (or be able to pick one) instead of an autoincremented one.
Intention: to hide in which order posts/pages were created.
Maybe I should have asked in “plug-ins and hacks” forum? Shall I Xpost?