Redirect login.wordpress.org/wp-login.php to login.wordpress.org/

[jonoaldersonwp]

​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/.

[ocean90]

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.

[jonoaldersonwp]

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?

[ocean90]

And what are the benefits?

[jonoaldersonwp]

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 ;)

[ocean90]

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.

[jonoaldersonwp]

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.

[dd32]

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.

[jonoaldersonwp]

They already have a noindex property.

What's "not the same" mean, and, why can't we (resolve any discrepencies / solve any underlying silliness) and consolidate them?