Change Post Edit URL

  • Unknown's avatar
    katewebb · Member ·

    I have a problem. I put up a post and someone Commented on it. Then I changed the post and it got a new URL edit number and no longer has the attached Comment. I still have the original Comment in my email file and would like to apply it to the repositioned post it can’t f ind the post saying it’s in the trash. The old post is not in the Trash, but I can call it up in Comments. Sorry this is complicated.
    Basically I want to know if I can change this:
    http://katewebb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1170
    to this:
    http://katewebb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=943.
    How do I do this? Any ideas…

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  • Unknown's avatar
    katewebb · Member ·

    Further information: I can see the post and the edit here: http://katewebb.wordpress.com/the-rar-archives/#comments
    but the post doesn’t come up in the Trash. Is there a way of putting this up again – including the Comment as a new Post?

  • Unknown's avatar
    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Only staff can access your dashboard: we volunteers cannot, so links to your admin pages won’t do; we need links to the actual posts.

    If I understand correctly, you published an updated version of an older post as a new post, someone had commented on the older post, and you want that comment to show up in the new post. If so, copy the comment, log out, submit the comment to the new post yourself, then log in again and edit the comment to restore original commenter’s data.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Also it is a bad idea to delete posts and then write a new one to replace it. If the search engines have the older post in their index, then once you delete it it creates a 404 file not found error and the search engines do not like that. Also, if anyone has linked to that post from another site or post, that link will also produce a 404 file not found error, and the search engines will see that as well.

    My suggestion is to write the new post, and then within that post link back to the older post and then edit the older post and put in a link to the newer post. That way you don’t end up creating 404 errors and getting on the bad side of the search engines.

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