Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#5251 new defect (bug)
Faulty links redirect to random pages
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Milestone: | Priority: | low | |
Component: | HelpHub (wordpress.org/documentation) | Keywords: | needs-patch |
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Description
https://wordpress.org/support/article/ could serve a 404 or 301 redirect to HelpHub, but redirects to another page altogether.
Change History (8)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta by tacitonic. View the logs.
5 years ago
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #docs by tacitonic. View the logs.
5 years ago
#4
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5 years ago
The simple solution is to create a page with that slug, and put the expected content on it.
#5
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5 years ago
Most URLs under /support will redirect to a random topic, most likely based on a simple search.
https://wordpress.org/support/thing for example.
If the desired goal is to eliminate this general search-based redirection, then that should probably be addressed directly instead of putting in pages for specific URLs. You could spend the rest of your life building those pages.
#6
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5 years ago
I suggested the specific page for that particular URL, a few years ago: https://github.com/WordPress/HelpHub/issues/231
But there is a recent commit in core which might apply here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16557
#7
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5 years ago
So, do we want to turn off the guesser and show a 404 for non-existent pages?
Or just have a few selected URLs to redirect to somewhere like the support homepage?
@fierevere also noted that https://wordpress.org/support/forum/ redirects to a topic too.