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1. I’m a bit confused about “Parent” and “Child” in this context. Is “Parent” referring to the post on the “parent” site, in which case the “Child” post permalink would link back to the parent site? Or is it referring to hierarchical posts?

   I’m specifically confused about “Use first child’s permalink”. Could you explain a bit more about the relationship here?

   Thank you!

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   1. The parent is the original post that was broadcasted. The child is one of the posts, linked to the parent, that was created on another blog in the network.

      Using the first child’s permalink will override the permalink of the parent and all of the siblings, if any, with that of the first linked child.

2. Really loving this plugin. However, I am a bit confused by the permalinks add-on.

   If I am understanding correctly, if I choose child to “Always use own permalink,” doesn’t that mean (technically) the child site could have a different permalink than that of the parent? If so, it does not seem to function that way. If I am clearly misunderstanding the use of this, can you please elaborate?

   Thanks, in advance.

   -Matt

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   1. In theory, yes, it will allow the child post to have its own permalink – or at least one that the blog decides is a valid permalink for the post. In what way is it not functioning correctly, you say?

   2. Edward,

      I have a master site that is pushing a custom post to sub-domains (multisite ). In this example, the master site–or I should say Parent site–has a permalink of:

      “/master-dinner-menu-version-a”

      That pushes fine over to the child site; however, if I change the the permalink on the child site to “/dinner” the next time I update from the parent (**as a note, I do have the child set to always use own permalink**) it adopts the parent’s permalink of “/master-dinner-menu-version-a.”

      Is there something I have to do pre linking the page–as in, should I be setting the permalink of the child before pushing from parent. Any elaboration on the steps I should take would be much appreciated.

      Thank you for your help on this, and again, loving this plugin–works great!

      –Matt

   3. I see the “problem”: after modifying the permalink on the child, you rebroadcast from the parent. The permalink on the child is automatically overwritten, since that is how broadcasting works: posts are updated.

      This can be prevented by contacting me via e-mail to receive a beta version of the “protect child properties” add-on that will protect the permalink of the children from being overwritten.

      After OKing the function, I’ll release the permalink protection for everyone.

   4. Edward,

      I shot you an e-mail. Thanks, again, for the support!!

      –Matt
3. I’m a bit confused, too. If I broadcast a post with the default option and the permalink /CUSTOMPERMALINK and the receiving blog already has a post with /CUSTOMPERMALINK I have 2 posts with the same permalink, which will resort in an error. What’s the right setting for this usecase? Will this Plugin solve this issue?

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   1. No. The CUSTOMPERMALINK is almost always generated by the post name. No two posts can have the same post name, so that’s a limitation in WP itself.

      The add-on controls which permalink is displayed when WP is to display the post’s permalink: the post’s own permalink, or it’s child’s / parent’s permalink.

4. Say, I have below settings

   • Parent: /post/%post_id%
   • Child (WordPress): /%category%/%post_id%
   • Child (Plug-in): /%category_top%/%post_id%

   The child site’s plugin-in can help me to define custom permalink, and in this case, I only choose the top category. Say I just don’t like long category list, and I may change sub categories from time to time, so it is better to keep only the top category.

   In this case, my test with Broadcast plug-in gives me #2 case url. If I choose permalink as ‘Always use own permalink’, would it make #3 case url as the child site’s permalink?

   Given that you have Permalink Manager Pro as your one of the 3rd party plugin, if I enable that option and use Permalink Manager Pro together, would it make the #3 case url as the child site’s permalink?

   Say I have #2 (I think it is default option) at the moment, and I just run Permalink Manager Pro’s massive redirection to change my url structure, would ‘Redirect Parent’ still work? It looks like all parent traffic are redirected to first child, but if the first child’s permalink is affected by a 3rd party plugin, the redirection may not work?

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   1. When selecting “always use own permalink”, the permalink is not overridden in any way. However the child post wants to report its permalink is left alone.

      The Permalink Manager add-on copies over the custom permalink from the parent over to the children. Using the “own” setting will return the plugin’s permalink.

      The child setting in this Permalink add-on will:

      1. switch to the first child site
      2. run the get_permalink call

      So if the Permalink Manager plugin overrides the get_permalink call on the child, it sounds like the parent’s permalink should instead show the child’s custom permalink from the plugin.