Changing the site slug multiple times results in problems

#18807
  • Resolved Sebastian Widmann

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi there,

    I enabled ‘Auto Post Redirect’ in the redirection settings. If I change a slug from a page (and that page has parent pages) multiple times, that leads to wrong redirections.
    Only the first redirection is created, then, more source urls are added to this redirection instead of newly created redirections.

    Best regards
    Sebastian

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Sebastian Widmann. Reason: added link to screencast
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  • Michael Davis

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    I have tested this issue on my end but I am afraid that I could not replicate it. I went ahead and made 3 changes to the page slug of a child page but all the redirections work.
    Could you please share a screen recording of the steps that you are taking so that we can investigate this further?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Sebastian Widmann

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Michael Davis

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    I have submitted this problem to our dev team for closer investigation and we will be getting back to you in a short while.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Todd

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi Sebastian,

    Thanks for your patience.

    Ideally, this type of redirection is handled internally by WordPress. You do not need to use Rank Math when editing the slug since WordPress now automatically redirects changes slugs to the correct page.

    Rank Math is only needed when WordPress fails to redirect edited URLs.

    When using Rank Math to change a URL multiple times – please delete the previous redirection to avoid redirection loops.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Sebastian Widmann

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi there,

    thanks for your reply, but I think that’s not a good solution. Several problems:

    • The WP standard is only working, if I keep unlimited revisions. If I turn of revisions or keep only a few, WP standard redirection is not working
    • If the feature is not working correctly and the recommendation is, to use the WP standard, why should I enable this feature?
    • Everybody has to know about the problem and has to do manual steps

    Best regards
    Sebastian

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Sebastian Widmann. Reason: fixed html
    Pratik

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for letting us know about this issue. I’ve forwarded it to our Development team, they will further debug this and fix it in an upcoming update.

    In the meantime, if there is anything else, please let us know.

    Thank you.

    RankBot

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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