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Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 14 months ago

#5290 closed defect (bug)

Requests containing 'cat=-1' omit canonical (and hreflang) tags — at Version 2

Reported by: jonoaldersonwp's profile jonoaldersonwp Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: General Keywords: seo
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Description (last modified by dd32)

Requests such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/web-application-firewall/?cat=-1 and https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/?example=example&cat=-1 omit canonical URL tag and hreflang tags.

These should be (re)included, and the parameter ignored.

Change History (2)

#1 @dd32
4 years ago

In 9992:

Theme Directory: Remove Category support.

See #5290.

#2 @dd32
4 years ago

  • Description modified (diff)

Unfortunately ?cat=-1 is a valid request, as is /tag/tagname/?cat=-1234, which is just as valid as /tag/tagname/?category_name=catname

This is an unfortunate scenario where WordPress's flexibility is incredibly hard to handle.

The challenge with multi-taxonomy queries like this, is which is the canonical? /tag/tagname/?category_name=catname or /category/catname/?tag=tagname?

If the QV should just be excluded from the canonicalisation, the further question that's raised is "Does what the canonical is actually set to matter at all? Should it just be set to the homepage for a multi-taxonomy query if one should be ignored?"

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