[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35420: Inconsistent slug behaviour add/edit terms

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#35420: Inconsistent slug behaviour add/edit terms
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 Reporter:  andizer       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Taxonomy      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi @andizer - Thanks for the ticket.

 Term slugs are used to generate URLs, for things like taxonomy archives.
 Once these URLs have become public, changing the slugs will break existing
 permalinks. You can choose to do this manually (by entering `slug-2`
 yourself), but it's not something we'd want to do automatically.

 The case of posts is different, because we have infrastructure in place
 that supports rerouting of old slugs. See `wp_old_slug_redirect()` and
 `wp_check_for_changed_slugs()`. Now that we have termmeta (as of 4.4),
 it's conceivable that we could build something similar for terms. But in
 the absence of this new system, we can't blindly change existing slugs.

 I'm going to close this ticket as maybelater on this basis, but if you or
 someone else wants to work on the changed-term-slug system, feel free to
 reopen with some ideas :)

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