The “guid” field..

The guid record does *not* have to be an url. It can be any unique value; the devs decided the one of merit for a post is its permalink, but you can use any (unique) text string.

But if you really *want* an url for this, insert something like:

https://your.blog.site/?p=100

The ‘p’ (post) query value here is just the Post’s numeric ID. This is the default permalink structure for WordPress.

Hey… thanks!

The current GUID’s seem to be written like this..

Post Title – GUID
View Cookies 1.5 – https://www.*********.com/view-cookies-15-2/
vbrowseit 1.0 – https://www.**********.com/vbrowseit-10-3/
ULPS 1.0 – https://www.*********.com/ulps-10-2/

If possible I wanted to keep them to the same format.. but wasn’t sure exactly what it was doing?

Thanks!

The format:

https://www.*********.com/view-cookies-15-2/

should be easy to replicate, as it’s the site url & postname (i.e. the content of the ‘post_name’ field) — though I don’t get the -# at the end of each.

Yeah… that’s the part I was wondering about too.. not sure what it was doing with the numbers at the end; must be something to do with avoiding duplicate URL’s??

guid stands for globally unique identifier. it could be a number; one can argue that a url is unique enough as well. as long as your identifier is unique, you’re ok.

“must be something to do with avoiding duplicate URL’s“

If you have two previous vbrowseit-10 posts, then that should be it.