Expression Engine Hiccup
Fascinating. I post the “Your Daily Sadie” posts with the same title each day. Expression Engine builds the URL for the post from the title, adapting to the problem of duplicates by incrementing a number at the end.
Thus the link for yesterday’s “Your Daily Sadie” ended in your_daily_sadie48 and was presumably the 48th such post.
Today when trying to publish exactly the same as all the previous times, I got an error:
An entry already exists with this URL title. URL titles must be unique.
All well and good, but why now? You don’t work and then stop working. If there is a limitation, why 48? I started over when I got the error, and it did it again. I’ll test again tomorrow, but meanwhile I put the 49 in for today myself. How annoying.
Update:
I was thinking I’d post a “bonus Sadie” anyway, or maybe a more generic family pictures post, so I used Bonus Sadie in order to test the URL numbering. It worked, tacking on a 6 so the URL would be unique. Which convinces me more and more that EE has a set limit on how high it will autoincrement.
Which I suppose is better than nothing. In a forum I found where people are talking about the unique post titles issue with a pMachine employee, the person seemed mysified as to why anyone would ever want a duplicate post title and thereby inadvertently generate a duplicate URL. How about “Carnival of the Whatever is up” each week. Yes, for more than 48 weeks on the same blog. It won’t just be the daily kid picture…
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