Previously, that functionality was present--Wordpress would append a unique ID on duplicate slugs. However, it was found that there was no need to do so, for instance, when a two pages (with unique slugs) have differing parent pages/paths:
/personal/about/ ... is a different page than, /business/about/ .... so there should be no need for the appended unique ID. Perhaps allowing for that has caused the software to cease appending an ID when it is actually needed? -- Rick Beckman On 12/6/05, Tyson Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was having odd issues with a page on my WP 2.0 site (latest build). > Essentially, I went to my admin interface and started editing my > "About" page which had a slug of "about". I saved my changes and > attempted to view the changes on the site using the "/about" > permalink. The changes did not appear. I reloaded, deleted the cache, > and reinstalled WP's files before I realized that I had (somehow) > created two About pages, both with slugs of "about" but with > different IDs. > > I'm assuming that I had accidentally created two About pages myself > and that they weren't created by WP. > > Shouldn't WordPress warn me? I think it would be nice if, when you > made a page with a page-slug collision, WordPress either: > > 1. (Preferred) Changed my new page's slug to "aboutX" (where X is the > lowest number where there are no slug collisions) and then warned me > with something like: "Warning: A page with slug "about" already > exists. This page's slug has been changed to "about2". You can change > the page slug by editing the page _here_." > > 2. (Ugly) Give me an error and encourage me to change the errors of > my ways. Redirect me to goatse for being a dummy. > > Does this sound logical? > > -Tyson > > -- > Tyson Tate > * Librarian & Member, Mustang Band > * Team Member, CalPoly Triathlon Team > * Webmaster & Active, Kappa Kappa Psi > * Editor, Entropy Magazine > * Developer & Tech Writer, CADRC > * Freelance Graphic Designer > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > -- Rick Beckman www.Beckman-Ministries.com Check out (and contribute!) to OpenWord, the FREE Bible-believer's encyclopedia: http://openword.fellowship-hall.com/ _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
