Real GUIDs

Use real UUIDs for the GUIDs on your WordPress site. No more replacing the URL when migrating from development to staging.

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   |     |             /--------------------------------\
   |     |        ,--- | Hi! I'm Sid the Squid, and I'm |
  (o)   (o)      /     | here to generate your GUIDs!   |
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Wondering what a UUID looks like? Here's one: urn:uuid:f52b1c3f-bfd8-4065-bade-d012276152d6

Installation

Add this plugin to your site.
Activate it.
Live. Laugh. Love.

FAQ

Why real GUIDs?

WordPress uses the post permalink as a GUID right now, but most people want to hide their staging/dev environment URLs from production when migrating. That often makes it hard to deduplicate the data however, as the one thing that's meant to be a unique identifier gets changed.

This solves that. Now there's no need to change the GUID. Ever. Please.

Why UUID v4?

v1 incorporates the MAC, and can have problems with uniqueness.

v2 incorporates the Unix user and group IDs, and is just generally a bad idea.

v3 and v5 are deterministic based on their inputs (namespace and "name"), but we want the randomness.

Hence, v4.

But... why real GUIDs?

...Are you serious? I just told you.

I actually just wanted an excuse to draw an ASCII squid.

License

Stop worrying about licensing and go have fun. There's a squid up there, for goodness' sake!

(Licensed under the GPL, because it's a derivative work of WP, natch.)

P.S.

You're fantastic. ❤️

rmccue/realguids