WordPress Tip: Finding Future Post Permalinks

In Technical Tips for Publishing a Series of Articles on Your Blog, I offered tips for how to use WordPress to publish a series of articles on your blog, linking manually between the blog posts after they have been published.

One of the benefits of writing articles series as future posts is that you can link between the posts before they are published - but only with links to past posts, not future posts.

When you include a link to a post that hasn’t yet published, the reader will click on it and find themselves staring at a Page Not Found 404 Error. Not a polite thing to do, is it.

However, you can play some games with future posts to include links to posts which haven’t published on posts which haven’t published yet.

Why? Tracking all the links in past posts after the post has published can be time consuming. Why not shorten some of the fuss and link to the posts before they’ve published. You may still have to edit the posts once they are published to add links to upcoming posts, but let’s do a little of it now as we are developing the posts and the thoughts are fresh in our heads.

I’ve been using this technique to generate links in my article series for a long time, and it helps speed up the process for me. Let’s see if I can explain it so you can understand how simple this is and how much time you can save.
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