[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42458: Unlimited number of nonexistent pages

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#42458: Unlimited number of nonexistent pages
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 Reporter:  mikekelley138  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                 |
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 I have found an issue with the static homepage. On any site with the
 static homepage, the blog pagination is still present in a sense. For
 example if you navigate to example.com/page/2, instead of getting a
 404(since that page doesn't actually exist), you just get the static
 homepage.

 I found this while crawling a brand new twentyseventeen theme install. My
 crawler (screaming frog), was finding these non-existent URL's. This could
 have implications with the search engines. It could also present a problem
 with links with relative URL's

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