Permalink redirect to other page

[fahimmurshed]

Hi,
Check this link: ​https://wordpress.org/support/users/
This link redirects to Contact from DB plugin support page ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-28/

I think it should be fixed.

Please change the component to the right category.

Thanks :)

[Otto42]

​https://wordpress.org/support/* redirects to the nearest matching support topic for that phrase. That support topic can be in any forum, including the plugin and theme support forums.

[dd32]

I'm reopening this, as I'd like to tighten up these redirects a bit more to be useful to the average user.

/support/users/ has no need to redirect to a /support/topic/users*/ page (Certainly not one from 3 years ago), a better redirect would be to a search of the documentation.

A partial uri for a /support/topic/something-or-other can continue to do a topic lookup though.

[Otto42]

It's not like we're linking to that anywhere. A better redirect would be to /support without anything, honestly.

This isn't exactly an intentionally designed redirect, it's more of a default one from WordPress from redirect_guess_404_permalink().

[Clorith]

I'm wondering if it would not make more sense to redirect the user to their own profile page if they just do /support/users/?

I also believe it's the core redirect guess function doing this though, it might even make sense to disable the redirect guesser for the forums, given that topics that are removed are usually removed for a reason and having them reliably return a 404 instead of a different topic would be a better experience I think.

[fahimmurshed]

Another URL: ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ it redirects to ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/topic-3-isnt-being-tranlated-loco/

[valentinbora]

A first patch to prevent redirecting to guessed topics within forums

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to Clorith:

I also believe it's the core redirect guess function doing this though, it might even make sense to disable the redirect guesser for the forums, given that topics that are removed are usually removed for a reason and having them reliably return a 404 instead of a different topic would be a better experience I think.

Disabling redirects for hidden/removed topics should already be accounted for in #2671.

[dd32]

In 9850:

Support Forums: Canonical: Don't redirect bbPress root page parents to random topics.
Examples: /users/ /topics/ and /reply

Fixes #4606.