[wp-hackers] Unique Stubs

[Viper007Bond]

When the permalink structure is changed (which is a fairly bad for SEO btw),
we could have it check for collisions and add in suffixes as needed.
WordPress already supports redirecting old stubs to new ones, so there ya
go.

Just drives me nuts that when I happen to make a post with the same name as
like a year ago, it sticks a suffix on it. :(

On 2/6/08, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Viper007Bond wrote:
>
> > For the longest time, WordPress would stick like a "-2" onto the end
> > of the
> > stub if I tried to use "hello-world" again. Singular (
> > http://jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/singular/ ) fixed this issue.
> >
> > However, IIRC, didn't we at some point change this so that it would
> > only do
> > it if there was an actual URL collision? i.e. it was changed to
> > allow this:
> >
> > Post #1: http://example.com/2008/02/05/hello-world/
> > Post #2: http://example.com/2008/02/06/hello-world/
>
>
> As I recall, that was discussed -- someone may have even made a patch,
> but I don't think it went in.
>
> One issue we identified was that if your permalink structure is
> changed to something less specific (like to /year/month/slug/), you
> could introduce collisions.  Of course you'd have to redirect to the
> new URL structure, so maybe people with enough know-how to do that can
> also resolve slug conflicts.
>
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