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  jensonyu · Member · May 26, 2011 at 2:40 pm

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  Someone has stolen — actually, cached — my blog on their site. While I’m looking for a way to stop them, I stumbled upon this annoying thing that I’m not sure if it’s related to the theme I’m using or the generally an issue of WordPress.com.

  The issue is, when I change the permanent link of a post, I would expect the old one not being working afterwords. But somehow it still does and automatically redirect to the new link.

  Is it a “feature”? Well, I don’t like it.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 26, 2011 at 3:59 pm

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  Are you referring to the slug? Like /i-changed-this/ vs. /to-this/?

  If so, that is a feature. As soon as a post is published, it’s sent out to subscribers. If you realize that you made a typo in the post title or slug, you wouldn’t want all of those subscribers getting “not found” errors after you make the change.

  As for the content theft, we do have a guide for that: http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

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  jensonyu · Member · May 26, 2011 at 4:18 pm

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  staff-blorbo: I don’t know why it’s called slug and that’s beyond me. Maybe you’re talking about the same thing.

  The bad people took my content and posted on their site. I examined their html code and found this:

  < !– Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

  Minified using disk
  Page Caching using disk (enhanced)
  Object Caching 501/561 objects using disk

  Served from: getjunglefever.com @ 2011-05-26 16:12:27 — >

  So it looks like my content is being cached on their server. I thought by changing the URL of my blog, from /this-blog/ to /this-blog-123/, their cache would expire at some point and become blank. But then I found out the redirection. In that case, their server will keep caching my blog without problems. That’s why I don’t like the redirection. Does it make sense to you?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 26, 2011 at 5:29 pm

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  Yes, that does make sense, and it is an unfortunate situation.

  Rather than just taking the content away from them, it’s better to pursue them as the legal owner of your content following the guide that I linked to.

  In most cases, you can have the site completely suspended by its hosting provider.