Bizarre Post Redirection

[bionary]

To my chagrin, I noticed that a few of my posts are redirecting to posts with similar urls. At first I though it was an .htaccess directive but I looked into it and it is not. (that would have been too easy of course!)

For example: http://helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone
redirects to: http://helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone-video/

but you can see the url change when to page first loads so I'm thinking it has to do with wordpress itself?

This is really weird...any ideas?

I'm running genesis:beautiful theme

Thanks

http://helloartsy.com

[Victor Font]

If you take a look at the first URL at http://redirectdetective.com/, it is reporting a 301 Permanent Redirect to the second URL. 301 redirects are created either by plugins or directives in htaccess.

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[bionary]

That's a good tool, thanks Victor.
Here's where things get really weird which leads me to believe this is happening inside WP and not .htaccess.
If I change the url of the final destination (ie: helloartsy.com/abc) ... it still gets redirected there.
This is very weird.

[bionary]

I just figured out EXACTLY what wordpress is doing but I'm not sure how to fix it.
WordPress is automatically redirecting all urls (slugs) that where changed.
For example if I had a post called: site.com/abc and later changed it to site.com/123 visiting site.com/abc will automatically redirect (301) to the new url: site.com/123.

The problem is wp is not smart enough to realize when another post is made using the old slug and NOT do the redirect.

My url: helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone-video used to be named: helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone

How on earth do I fix this?

[Victor Font]

WordPress Ver. 2.3 introduced a feature called canonical URLS. The goal was to make WordPress automatically redirect requests to the correct (canonical) URL for that resource. You can disable this by adding remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical'); to your functions.php.

You could also try resaving your permalinks. I don't know if either of these will help, but it won't hurt to try.

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[bionary]

I just tried resaving each url and that doesn't work. The removing filter seems like the nuclear option as it will destroy all the good effects of this "feature" and will probably break many links.

[Christoph]

Hi,

this is a bug in WordPress.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35031
It is scheduled to be fixed in WordPress 4.4.1.

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[bionary]

wow, impressive Chris. Do the say when that will be released?

[Christoph]

I believe the plan is for the middle/end of the coming week.

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[bionary]

cool, I'll just wait it out.
Thank you.

(that is a very destructive bug on my site...as I had changed many slugs early on)

[Christoph]

If you don't want to wait, you could manually add the changes to /wp-includes/query.php into your WordPress installation:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36129

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[bionary]

Thanks!

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