[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6364: Can't manually set slugs if pretty permalinks are disabled

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#6364: Can't manually set slugs if pretty permalinks are disabled
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  Administration     |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:           
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 With the new interface for manually setting slugs, there is no option to
 set an item's slug if pretty permalinks are disabled.

 The interface for managing the slug is only displayed if pretty permalinks
 are enabled, and only after the first draft of the post is saved. This
 makes it cumbersome for users that have to manually edit slugs for every
 post they write - for e.g., when writing titles in a non-latin script
 (like Hebrew) that becomes gibberish when used as a slug.

 While this does minimize noise in the post edit page and makes things
 elegant and simple, it makes it impossible, for e.g., to manually edit
 slugs for all posts before enabling pretty permalinks, or to manually edit
 slugs for new posts as a way to future-proof them in case pretty
 permalinks ever were enabled (or if a server issue prevents using them but
 will eventually be resolved).

 I would suggest keeping the new interface for blogs that have pretty
 permalinks activated, but adding an interface for manually setting slugs
 for blogs that do not have them activated - this could be hidden by
 default like all other advanced options are hidden now.

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