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Twenty Sixteen is a responsive theme as far as i know.

no worries, I solved the problem. For anyone else having the same issue, I just used ‘image’ not ‘featured_image’.

Great, thank you very much for all your help.

Hey greyparrots,

Thanks for your help. Is this a bug then?

Hey greyparrots, looks like this is a wordpress bug.

I just repeated the steps I outlined above but on my other website and the results are the same.

So I created a post with URL: https://www.mywebsite.net/orange-car/
I published the post, then I deleted it and removed it from the trash.

I then created a new post with URL: https://www.mywebsite.net/orange-car-today/ and published the post.

I then visited https://www.mywebsite.net/orange-car/ and it redirects to the new post.

Is this a wordpress bug or am I missing something obvious? Thanks.

Hi greyparrots,

That’s fine, I will try to replicate the problem on my other website, I just gave you the details in case you wanted to try it yourself on your own site.

I’ll update you here with my results. Thanks

Hi greyparrots,

I checked my .htaccess file and it is exactly the same as above. I then deactivated all plugins and updated the permalinks as before.

I then created a new post and again the old URL redirects to it.
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UPDATE:
I have done some testing and I think this may be a bug with wordpress. I am running Version 3.8.1.

So I just created a new post, with a title of ‘test post’ and content of ‘test post’ and a URL of https://www.domain.com/post-name-123

But still the deleted old post with URL of https://www.domain.com/post-name still redirects to this new post above.

So then I changed the URL of the new post to this: https://www.domain.com/123-post-name
and now https://www.domain.com/post-name no longer redirects to the new post!

To double check that this is not related to my plugins, I repeated the process after deactivating all my plugins and I get the same result.

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Please can you also try this to see if you get the same result.

1. Create a post with a URL of bunny-rabbits and add a title and some content and publish the post.
2. Now delete that post and empty it from the trash.
3. Create a new post with a URL of bunny-rabbits-123 and add a title and some content and publish the post.
4. Now visit: https://www.yourDomain.com/bunny-rabbits and see if it redirects to https://www.yourDomain.com/bunny-rabbits-123

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I will also try this myself on a different website and see if I get the same results.

Maybe wordpress is doing this because the posts had the same content?

Hi greyparrots, thank you for the tip but it didn’t seem to work. The URL of the old post still seems to redirect to the URL of my new post, even after deleting the old post. Pretty strange, I can’t figure it out as wordpress should be seeing them as 2 completely different posts since they have different URLs.

For now I have deleted both of the posts, but I’m still not sure how to solve this issue. If I create another post now with a different URL will wordpress start to redirect the old URLs to this new post again? It shouldn’t do but this is what seems to be happening.

Hey mitcho, thanks for the addition! I am now using the beta version and so far so good!

Hey mitcho,

I installed the Widget Context plugin and that works perfectly!

Unfortunately I am using the ‘Thumbnails’ option in the yarpp sidebar widget which does not give me the option of controlling the title being displayed. Please can you let me know how to go about customizing the title when using thumbnail view. (p.s. my coding skills are limited, and I don’t really know php)

Thanks for your help mitcho, yarpp is an awesome plugin!

Hey Liza, thanks for your response, but I am not quite sure if you answered my question or not.

My question is: If I export posts from an infected/hacked site, and then import them into a clean site, can the clean site become infected/exploited?

Hey WPyogi, its local on my machine

I guess a more simplified question would be:
How can I edit search.php so that instead of displaying ‘post titles’ as the search results, it displays ‘post headings’ containing the search term along with the ‘paragraph content’ for that heading.

I am trying to figure this out to. I only want it to display on posts because at the moment it is displaying on posts and pages and because of this on my homepage it is suggesting the About page, Privacy page, etc. which doesn’t look so good.

Hi Marventus, I’m new to the forum and am not sure how to mark this thread as resolved. I’m just trying to work out how to do that, if you can let me know that would be great.

Update: I think the reason why I can’t mark it as resolved is because I didn’t start the thread, is that right?