Question About Slugs for Scheduled Posts

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by qardinal, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. #1
    Here is the question in simple form:

    When slugs are the same in scheduled posts, does Wordpress automatically give duplicate slugs of posts a unique identifier as soon as they're posted?

    Here is the question in expanded form:

    I'm wanting to post something like a funny pic of the day post, and I'm scheduling it for every day for the next year. To make my task easier, I used an automated post maker that can generate 365 scheduled posts for me, all I have to do is go through the generated posts and fill in the title/description fields. However, the title is automatically generated by the script for all 365 pages, which results in 365 duplicate slugs.

    Fortunately, when I edit each page to add the unique content the slug obtains a unique identifier, which is good.

    But here's the problem:

    I use another program to automatically change the slugs on all posts to match the posts title, so I don't have to edit every post one by one. However, this program generates many duplicate slugs for posts with the same title.

    Here's the question:

    When the scheduled post does go live, will Wordpress automatically add a unique identifier to the slug, or am I going to be dealing with some sort of conflict in the slug names?

    Thank you for your help, I'll +rep anyone who can give me an informed answer.
     
    Last edited: Aug 29, 2009
    qardinal, Aug 29, 2009 IP