Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#4646 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Redirect login.wordpress.org/wp-login.php to login.wordpress.org/
Reported by: | jonoaldersonwp | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | low | |
Component: | Login & Authentication | Keywords: | seo analytics close |
Cc: |
Description
https://login.wordpress.org/wp-login.php is equivalent to https://login.wordpress.org/, but lacks the friendly messaging.
We should 301 redirect https://login.wordpress.org/wp-login.php to https://login.wordpress.org/.
Change History (9)
#2
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5 years ago
- Resolution wontfix deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Well, there's significant benefit. That's why I opened the ticket.
What are our alternatives/options to consolidate these URLs? We could reverse the direction of the redirect?
#3
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5 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback added
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
And what are the benefits?
#4
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5 years ago
SEO and Analytics stuff. URL, value and reporting consolidation. It's certainly not mission-critical, and
there are more important things on the list - hence, the 'low' priority status.
But if I have to build a detailed business case on every ticket, then we'll lose to Wix and be long-dead before we get anywhere. I'd rather we trust that I understand the time/effort/value trade-offs well enough to only open worthwhile tickets, and to prioritise them roughly accordingly ;)
#5
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5 years ago
- Keywords close added; reporter-feedback removed
But if I have to build a detailed business case on every ticket,
Simply answering the "Why?" question would already be enough. Since login.wordpress.org can't be indexed I'm not sure why this ticket even exists.
#6
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5 years ago
Because it can still be crawled, and, because it's still in our analytics system. In its present format, it causes issues in both cases. Adding a noindex tag doesn't solve all of our problems.
#7
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5 years ago
While the page looks the same, it's not the same, and we can't remove it.
The most we can do is add a noindex
tag here.
Since it already has a noindex
I guess we could add a canonical header, but unless that's going to solve the issue entirely this is squarely a wontfix
.
wp-login.php
is still used as the action for the forms and to display error messages. There isn't much if any benefit in doing a redirect here.