If I change a pretty permalink, shouldn't references to it change??

  • Resolved Andy3142

    (@andy3142)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    When does a pretty permalink become final? I have a pretty permalink structure. I have a bunch of posts in edit, which cross-link to each other. I changed the permalink of one, eg from “meditation-mindfulness” to “meditation-Bristol.”

    I really did expect that the change would automatically propagate through the blog, so that other posts that refer to this one would automatically get the new slug in the relevant links. That didn’t happen, the links kept the old slug.

    I am puzzled. Should I be puzzled, or am I imagining that something happens that in reality does not?

    cheers

    Andy

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  • Hi Andy,

    If you are pasting hyperlink to other posts within the content of a post – it pastes the exact URL at that moment into the content of the post. If you change the URL later it does not update it.

    The only thing I know that automatically updates is menu items – or anything that is using the page id as a reference rather than the url.

    Thread Starter Andy3142

    (@andy3142)

    OK, thanks, I have been under a delusion!

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