Way to update post slug on Publish?

  • Me and my writers frequently start drafts and give them “dummy” titles until we come up with something creative. The problem is that we sometimes forget to change the post slug when we publish so it get’s posted with some generic slug. Is there a way to make it update the post slug on Publish?

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  • Related: it took me a while to figure out what Post Slug was for, because I couldn’t find any reference to it in the documentation. Once I extrapolated its use upon editing a published post I hated it instantly. I do not want RSS feeds of any kind hanging off my site (because I need to know roughly who’s reading, so I want them on my domain stats, not pulling my content remotely), and the whole reason I’m using %post_id% in fancy URLs is to avoid the post title being part of the permalink. Blogger did that and I hated it immensely. So now I enter a Slug that’s like a keyword for my own reference but often has nothing to do with the title. I’m quite happy for it not to change, because if I can help it, nobody will ever see it anyway.
    (End of rant. Thank you for listening.)

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