Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#5241 new defect (bug)
Soft 404s with order params
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Component: | General | Keywords: | seo |
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Description
On sites with no blogs, the order/ orderby params can cause soft 404's (404 template returned with 200 status code).
For example:
https://wordpress.org/?order=asc
https://wordpress.org/?orderby=example
https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/?order=asc
https://wordpress.org/support/?order=asc
https://developer.wordpress.org/?order=asc
Other examples no doubt exist.
These should all return the correct HTTP status code.
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It looks like this is some 'buggy' WordPress Core behaviour.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-includes/class-wp.php?rev=48121&marks=716,718,722,728#L698
These requests are all to sites with a page set as the front page, and WordPress doesn't hard-404 for matching a matching archive (Even if it has no posts).
In these cases, WordPress is treating the page as a homepage archive (ie. posts on front) where it should be treating it as a 404 (page on front is not an archive).
I haven't gone digging for a core ticket for this yet