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Again, technically it does not matter — yet I would agree with this:

https://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/28/howto-atom-id#nohttp

Simply put, the GUID can be thought of as an unique ID — WP uses URIs and if you happen to change your URI, the GUID will not update because simply put, it does not need to.

However ‘sloppy’ this may appear it will not matter because as an example where the GUID appears in your RSS2 feed you will note: isPermaLink="false" which as stated by the spec:

isPermaLink is optional, its default value is true. If its value is false, the guid may not be assumed to be a url, or a url to anything in particular. (https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt)

So fear not, the GUIDs in your DB (though they may look sloppy because of a URI change) will not hurt you ??

Well technically….since its a GUID and isPermaLink="false" it matters little…I just feel its sloppy….regardless of their utility, WP uses URIs as GUIDs which at this point are dead or invalid…

After reviewing some of the old posts, I take it your stance is that it doesn’t matter….but as I said…it is sloppy….but not worth the work to update at this point.

Anyway, I will set this as resolved.

Thanks again Handy ??

Me too…seems like this is an old issue — has this been resolved?

OK, so while looking at the logistics of modifying my guid field manually to change ’em to my production URI, I am really hoping there is a force update method or something similiar.

What does one do to update guid URIs when moving a blog?

haha…ok thanks again Handy ??

Hmm…so to confirm the feed appears OK in your browser?

Thanks for your time HandySolo….

ok so thats the trick…when I view the feed in a browser:
https://futureprogress.net/feed/

I get:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </description>.
Location: https://futureprogress.net/feed/
Line Number 60, Column 5:		</item>
------------------^

However if I refresh the page a few times the line # and sometimes the tag that is mismatched changes, as another example:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </description>.
Location: https://futureprogress.net/feed/
Line Number 289, Column 5:		</item>
------------------^

So it appears to error at random places, though the feed itself validates.

Do you see this as well?

Well I found the guid column in my wp_posts and it appears that I need to edit that.

However, I am still curious….is this the only way to update the guid field?

Thanks in advance for any insight…

I have been searching around the forums and it almost all the feed related issues are related to niceadminname…which is obviously not the case here…

As such I am still quite perplexed. Can anyone help me out with this?

Regards…