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Stored automatic redirects cause issues for similarly named pages #20

Open aaron13100 opened 7 years ago

aaron13100 commented 7 years ago

What I Expected To Happen

Redirect to the post with the closest matching name or slug.

What Happened Instead

An automatic redirect sent me to the wrong post.

Steps to Reproduce the Bug

  1. Create a post such as financial-consulting-product-1
  2. Go to the URL site.com/financial-consulting-product-22
  3. (Note that an automatic redirect is created here.)
  4. Create a post with a similar name that matches the 404 URL, such as financial-consulting-product-2.
  5. Go to the URL site.com/financial-consulting-product-22

The site should redirect to site.com/financial-consulting-product-2 but it does not because the automatic redirect was used.

Etc

This was found using version 2.1.0 with WooCommerce and changing the product status to and from "hidden."