Wp update post permalink

Default array. Returns a confirmation key for a user action and stores the hashed version for future comparison. The names of the elements should match those in the database. If your updates are not working, there could be an error. Categories Categories need to be passed as an array of integers that match the category IDs in the database.

This is the case even where only one category is assigned to the post. Expand full source code Collapse full source code. I now have:. Wish I had stumbled on this site first, could have saved a lot of time. Thanks for the clear instructions, worked a treat. Used to have the year and month in the URL but now changed it to just the post title. Thanks for this great info. Using the year alleviates the issue you mentioned, though. Actually, i seem to recall an update in WordPress that fixed that issue altogether.

Still, i chose to add the year to my permalinks here out of anticipation of some day having lots of pages which may or may not actually happen. Thanks for the response Rick. Now that you say that about it only being related to pages not posts and possibly fixed in a recent version of WP, I seem to remember at least the latter, as well. Also, WordPress does a pretty good job of getting users to the correct location after you change your permalinks. It just worked. Probably not, though. Just thinking allowed.

And it worked perfectly! I decided to go without the post number. Thank you! Was quick and easy to implement. Worked as a charm! Just what I was looking for, perfect!

It took me about 1,5 minutes to do. Cool — thank you. If you could share with me a few examples of addresses which you want to work but which are redirecting to the home page, that could be useful. Are you using the latest version of WordPress? If so, changing your permalink structure should be handled gracefully by WordPress at this point, without the above custom code.

I may have imagined that, though, so you might look into the Permalink Redirect plugin to accomplish what you want. This is going to be pretty inefficient as these tests will need to be made on every page load.

Try these two lines together:. Hi Rick, I am new to WordPress and have recently built a website, but the Permalinks were unfortunately an afterthought. I want to change my permalinks so that they match the title of the page.

I tried changing this in the WordPress options but when I then visit my site my browser just says page not found. Can you help buddy? Cheers, Charlie. Cheers, Chaz. Hi Rick, this is a really cool article!

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Please note: You do not put your site url in the permalinks fields. You only use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags. A few hints:. Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.

The Category base and Tag base are prefixes used in URLs for category and tag archives, which look like this:. The default values for these are category and tag. Custom permalinks work on most systems without any problems, but there are still some conditions where problems occur. When you assign multiple categories to a post, only one can show up in the permalink. The categories are ordered alphabetically.

In each group of sub-categories the order will also be alphabetical. The post will still be accessible through all the categories as normal.