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Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#5251 new defect (bug)

Faulty links redirect to random pages

Reported by: tacitonic's profile tacitonic Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: low
Component: HelpHub (wordpress.org/documentation) Keywords: needs-patch
Cc:

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

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5 years ago

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
5 years ago

@fierevere also noted that https://wordpress.org/support/forum/ redirects to a topic too.

#4 @joyously
5 years ago

The simple solution is to create a page with that slug, and put the expected content on it.

#5 @Otto42
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.

Last edited 5 years ago by Otto42 (previous) (diff)

#6 @joyously
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 @Otto42
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?

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4 years ago

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