plugin/tags/faq shouldn't redirect to /plugins/#faq

[tobifjellner]

In the plugin ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/faq-block/ it's currently impossible to look at other plugins tagged "faq", since ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/faq/ automatically redirects to ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/#faq

[paulkevan]

Looks like this is triggering some legacy redirect code: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/blob/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/plugin-directory/class-plugin-directory.php#L527-L528, which could probably be tightened up so as to not catch the example above, and probably any /tag/ URLs, since the redirect also triggers for any of those other strings like: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/stats/

[paulkevan]

Seems like the rewrite rules could change to incorporate a more expected URL like:

add_rewrite_rule( '^extend/plugins/([^/]+)/(installation|faq|screenshots|changelog|stats|developers|other_notes)/?$

found the old URLs in: ​https://web.archive.org/web/20120930114546/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Avoids too many redirect for URLs containing more common strings (faq,stats).

See: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6819

This might have just broken something: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6824

[paulkevan]

Patched via: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/12448

[paulkevan]

Seems to be fixed, so closing. Thanks for the report @tobifjellner.