[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5169: Requests to paginated homepage URLs with 'order' params should return a 404

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#5169: Requests to paginated homepage URLs with 'order' params should return a 404
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 Reporter:  jonoaldersonwp  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  General         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  seo             |
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Comment (by bradleyt):

 Its worth noting that the issue @jonoaldersonwp has identified is
 WordPress core behaviour, which can be seen on multiple WordPress sites:

 https://central.wordcamp.org/?order=cats
 https://wordpress.org/news/?order=asc
 https://yoast.com/?order=cats

 (Note the Yoast example serves a different canonical for the `?order=`
 page, whereas core serves no canonical for the `?order=` pages).

 As this is long-established core functionality (and therefore unlikely to
 change in core for the short-term, if ever), but given that this is an SEO
 issue on the Rosetta sites, I would like to suggest that the quickest,
 easiest may be to redirect the problematic requests. Do any legitimate
 users use the `order`/ `orderby` params? Could these requests be
 redirected to the same URL without those params? (the redirect target
 would then either show the intended page, or a 404 in the case of the
 https://fr.wordpress.org/page/2/?order=cats  example)

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