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I accidentally came upon another way that WordPress isn’t working quite right, so I made a quick 2 minute video.
Over at SEO Automatic, I had created a page long ago to use for a new feature, my Automatic SEO Tip of the Week but I never made it live because I didn’t yet have enough content.
This morning, after I completed several weeks worth of content, and we had the sign up form tested and working, I was ready to make it live, but I had forgotten about the old one, and I created a new page.
Here’s a quick 2 minute video showing what I found..
Because the URL was already in use as a draft, WordPress appended a -2 to the permalink, and I didn’t notice until after it was live.
I thought it was ugly, so after deleting the original draft, I edited the permalink to remove the unwanted two characters.
What did I find? Yep, you guessed it… the old page name was now a 404 error. Interestingly, the “thank you page” after sign up DID codrrectly 301, so… go figure!
anyway, I manually added a 301 redirect, and then promptly installed this plugin, to manage things easier inside of the WordPress admin. I know this used to work fine, and I wish they’d stop breaking things…
