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Internal links don't work once slug is modified from original post title.

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  • May 18, 2020 at 6:15 am #498764
    Cutloose Adventure
    Participant

    My Internal links don't work once slug is modified from original post title. Permalinks are set to post name, but I believed that the actual slug (url) could be modified from within the post to be more SEO friendly. Am I Wrong?

    I'm using the essence pro theme.
    My site is cutlooseadventure.com

    Many thanks guys.

    http://cutlooseadventure.com
    May 18, 2020 at 9:08 pm #498774
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    If you change the slug and the links do not work, you may need to re-save your Permalinks.

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    May 18, 2020 at 9:33 pm #498777
    Cutloose Adventure
    Participant

    Hi Anita,
    Thanks for getting back to me.
    Ive' gone into setting permalinks and resaved, but hasn't fixed the internal link problem.
    Thanks,

    May 19, 2020 at 5:22 am #498790
    William
    Member

    Have you tried clearing the cache? That may do the trick 🙂

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    May 19, 2020 at 6:46 am #498792
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    Plugin conflict maybe? Do you have any "auto" redirects in there? Yoast Premium with Redirection? That may be causing your issues.

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    May 20, 2020 at 3:28 am #498839
    Cutloose Adventure
    Participant

    Hi William,
    Thanks for the recommendation, cleared the cache ... but no success.

    Hi Anita, I have no auto redirects in there. I haven't got Yoast Premium with redirects either. But, I think something did trigger the .htaccess file to be completely blank. So, I changed the name of the file ... went to permalinks and did a resave ... which re-created and populated the .htaccess file. I'm now working through the links again as one set of links is now working but not the other ... . Thanks again for your input ... I'll check the other links now ... before calling it solved.

    May 21, 2020 at 10:27 pm #498893
    Cutloose Adventure
    Participant

    Solved!

    Internal links now working!
    I've learned:
    To sort out all the links prior to publishing, i.e. get it right 1st time, then lock it in.
    Always use the full URL, i.e. don’t use slugs for internal links.
    Have a super redirect plugin installed to keep things right when and if you do need to change the URL.

    May 25, 2020 at 7:59 am #498923
    rstyner
    Participant

    Which super redirect plugin did you use?

    May 26, 2020 at 5:07 am #498944
    Cutloose Adventure
    Participant

    The plugin is called Redirection.

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