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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#3942 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Themes homepage shouldn't rely on JS, and shouldn't call the 'featured' state
| Reported by: | jonoaldersonwp | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Theme Directory | Keywords: | seo needs-patch needs-testing |
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Description
When loading https://wordpress.org/themes/, JavaScript is used to immediately change the page state to match that of https://wordpress.org/themes/browse/featured/. This causes SEO, accessibility and analytics headaches.
I'm assuming that the intent is that the 'Featured' view should act as the 'Themes homepage'. If this is the case, then:
/themes/browse/featured/should not exist as a distinct page (and requests to this URL should 301 redirect to/themes/)- Meta content (titles, descriptions, open graph tags, etc) for
/themes/should be updated to reflect that this page is both the themes index, _and_ a representation of featured themes. - We should remove the JavaScript 'reload' behaviour entirely.
Additionally, the page always loads with a large placeholder containing the text, "No themes found. Try a different search.". This is removed via JS if results are found.
This text should be removed entirely (as the default), and only returned for queries which genuinely return no results.
Just noting for future reference that this ticket has overlap with #4681