Import retained OLD permalinks

  • (yes I know I need to update)

    Professor had a blog at wordpress.com. We imported it to our multisite install for them. I use Network Posts Extended for the homepage of the network. Posts from the imported site appear to have retained their OLD url in the permalink. siteurl and home are correct and were correct prior to importing.

    Thoughts??

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  • Plugin Author Dion Hulse

    (@dd32)

    Meta Developer

    If you’re referring to the database ‘guid’ field, that’s intentional and the field shouldn’t be treated as the permalink to the post. The GUID field is intended to be a globally unique piece of text that uniquely identifies the post, for simplicity, we use the short link to the post where it’s originally written as the guid, but we could use a completely random string there too.

    If you’ve got some code which expects that the ‘guid’ field is the permalink, you’ll need to update that to use get_permalink(), wp_get_shortlink() or update the database manually to reflect their new locations.

    Thread Starter hopetommola

    (@hopetommola)

    I was unsure if this was a WP issue or a plugin issue, so I asked the question in both directions. See the plugin author response here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/using-shortcode-pulls-old-permalink/#post-10110133

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but if done correctly, there should not be a need for the manual edit in the database that he suggests, right?

    Much thanks

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