A few days back I came across a strange issue with numeric URLs in WordPress mentioned in support request of WordPress forums that WordPress is adding a suffix whenever we try to make the post/page slug to numeric only.
Suppose, if I have a URL like the following
http://example.com/123456789/
WordPress automatically changes this to
http://example.com/123456789-2/
After checking this weird issue, I thought to debug and find out a solution. After few hours of debugging into WordPress core code, I finally found out a solution to this problem. Here is the final code I came up with to fix this issue.
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add_filter( 'wp_unique_post_slug', 'mg_unique_post_slug', 10, 6 );
/**
* Allow numeric slug
*
* @param string $slug The slug returned by wp_unique_post_slug().
* @param int $post_ID The post ID that the slug belongs to.
* @param string $post_status The status of post that the slug belongs to.
* @param string $post_type The post_type of the post.
* @param int $post_parent Post parent ID.
* @param string $original_slug The requested slug, may or may not be unique.
*/
function mg_unique_post_slug( $slug, $post_ID, $post_status, $post_type, $post_parent, $original_slug ) {
global $wpdb;
// don't change non-numeric values
if ( ! is_numeric( $original_slug ) || $slug === $original_slug ) {
return $slug;
}
// Was there any conflict or was a suffix added due to the preg_match() call in wp_unique_post_slug() ?
$post_name_check = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare(
"SELECT post_name FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = %s AND post_type IN ( %s, 'attachment' ) AND ID != %d AND post_parent = %d LIMIT 1",
$original_slug, $post_type, $post_ID, $post_parent
) );
// There really is a conflict due to an existing page so keep the modified slug
if ( $post_name_check ) {
return $slug;
}
// Return our numeric slug
return $original_slug;
}
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Hope this helps you if you are having the similar type of issue. Also, if you have any other WordPress related problems/queries then feel free to contact us or create a thread on our Support Forum
