{"id":1283,"date":"2009-07-21T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:21:10","slug":"wordpress-2-82-changing-url-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/wordpress\/wordpress-2-82-changing-url-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.82 &#8211; Changing URL is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL.<\/p>\n<p>This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it follows anyone&#8217;s common sense.  It tells search engines that the page has been permanently moved, and it also retains the value of any incoming links that may have accumulated for that URL<\/p>\n<p>However, in WordPress 2.82, something seems to have gone wacky, and those actions are no longer happening.<\/p>\n<p>This first came to my attention when I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/johnandrews\/status\/2750703668\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet by johnandrews <\/a> saying that he was seeing that the old URL was remaining, and the new URL then 302 redirected to the old one.<\/p>\n<p>He and I chatted a bit about it briefly, so this morning I decided to do a quick test for myself, and went to the one and only 2.82 installation that we have, and I changed the Permalink of the post.<\/p>\n<p>While I did not see the old url remaining as John reported,  when running the old URL or the new URL through either of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seologic.com\/webmaster-tools\/url-redirect.php\" target=\"_blank\">two server<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com\/m\/http-server-response\/code-checker.php\" target=\"_blank\">response checkers<\/a>, I was shown a 302 redirect instead of a 301 and I also noticed that the trailing slash is no longer added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[flash http:\/\/pdxtc.com\/vids\/wp-2.82-permalinks-404\/wp-2.82-permalinks-404.flv]<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess the the moral of the story here is don&#8217;t change any URLs if you&#8217;re running WordPress 2.82 &#8211; and changing URL&#8217;s really isn&#8217;t all that desirable anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves me to wonder what if editing the entire permalink structure on a new WP 2.82 installation might not be wacky too?<\/p>\n<p>*** Update &#8211; Yes, it seems that changing the site permalink structure DOES ALSO generate a 302 from the old URL to the new. What a colossal screwup!<\/p>\n<p>*** Update October 2009 &#8211;<br \/>\nNow with a WordPress 2.85 upgrade, I&#8217;m seeing 404 errors after changing a URL, so it&#8217;s even worse! Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL. This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it follows anyone&#8217;s common sense. 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