Opened 6 months ago
Last modified 5 weeks ago
#5323 new defect
Plugin searches should force to lowercase
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Milestone: | Priority: | high | |
Component: | Plugin Directory | Keywords: | seo |
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Description
Plugin searches like https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/Cats/ support mixed-case URLs.
The search form submission/handling process should return a lowercase URL, and, direct requests to mixed-cased URLs here should be forced to lowercase via a 301 redirect.
Change History (5)
#2
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6 months ago
If you're concerned about the input box and H1 contents, then we could add some additional complexity to the ticket to address - we could de-couple the search query and how it's (re)presented to the user from the slug; maintaining the former, and forcing the latter to lowercase.
#3
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5 weeks ago
The search pages have "noindex,follow", does it really matter in terms of SEO or this is just for esthetics?
Also, why is this a high priority task? Which criterion is used to set a priority in the meta trac?
Thanks!
#4
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5 weeks ago
Yes, it matters. We have millions of pages on a site which is still profoundly unhealthy. We have hundreds of thousands of URLs which Google hasn't even evaluated yet, because crawling the site is so resource-intensive, and so poorly optimized. Every single individual URL which we can de-duplicate and bring up to something resembling best practice claws back crawl budget and resource for the URLs which matter.
Changing this would be of detriment to end-users, and complicated for non-ascii languages