Does rename of page slugs create 301 redirects from old slug to new (same as for posts)?

Question

Does rename of page slugs create 301 redirects from old slug to new (same as for posts)?

Starting a fresh install of wp wordpress:4.9.4-php7.1 I'm trying to get automatic redirects for renamed page permalinks working.

1. Creating a page with permalink /a
2. Rename that page permalink to /b
3. I expect GET /a to return a 301 redirect to /b

Creating a post with slug a and then renaming it to b creates a 301 redirect from a to b and a row in the wp-postmeta table with meta_key=_wp_old_slug and meta_value with the old slug. Is this supposed to work for pages as well? I think I've had a setup where this works before but now I'm not sure anymore. Is there a default redirect system like this that would also work when changing parents of a page?

Answer 1

Pages are, from the underlying engine's point of view, posts with a post_type of page. So you should ideally see the same redirects.

However, you may find a plugin like Redirection solves your issue more completely.