Redirction chains when using “Monitor changes to pages” or posts

  • Hi,

    When the option “Monitor changes to posts” and/or “Monitor changes to pages” are enabled. Everytime the slug changes, a new redirection is created, but the previous ones are not updated to redirect to the latest URL. Shouldn’t this be the default behaviour?

    Currently after multiple slug changes the redirects are:

    • /blog/new-post-slug => /blog/new-post-slug-1
    • /blog/new-post-slug-1 => /blog/new-post-slug-2
    • /blog/new-post-slug-2 => /blog/new-post-slug-3

    Expected behavior:

    • /blog/new-post-slug => /blog/new-post-slug-3
    • /blog/new-post-slug-1 => /blog/new-post-slug-3
    • /blog/new-post-slug-2 => /blog/new-post-slug-3

    The problem is that there are multiple redirects. E.g. when someone visits /blog/new-post-slug they are redirected to /blog/new-post-slug-1 and then to /blog/new-post-slug-2 and then to /blog/new-post-slug-3. Instead of being redirected directly to /blog/new-post-slug-3.

    Also when the post/page is finally deleted, the previous redirects are still active even when monitoring trash is enabled.

    Is this how the plugin works or do I have something wrong in my configuration? Does my understanding (expected behavior) make sense?

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    The plugin does not monitor for previous redirects or when it is deleted. It just creates a redirect when the URL changes.

    Thread Starter IshYoBoy.com

    (@ishyoboy)

    @johnny5 Is this something you would be willing to merge into the plugin if it was contributed to the github repo? Or is it something you are not interested into having. Thanks

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