[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5173: Centralise all the SEO fixes

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#5173: Centralise all the SEO fixes
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 Reporter:  dd32       |       Owner:  dd32
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:
Component:  General    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch  |
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Comment (by dd32):

 > If bbPress needs changes to help make SEO tweaks easier, let’s make them
 happen! ❤️

 Unfortunately it's not a simple change. I probably shouldn't have called
 out bbPress like that, o2 has similar problems, it was just a frustration
 point that had delayed me making this ticket for a few weeks.

 There's two major pain points with bbPress, the first is that
 forums/topics/replies are not queried until they're displayed, which means
 that in order to output archive/noindex/etc in the header we have to
 trigger the queries earlier (See
 [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html
 /wp-content/plugins/support-forums/inc/class-hooks.php?marks=508-518#L498
 this code] but search for `// Populate bbpress()` in that file for more.
 I'm 99% certain we cause everything to be queried twice when that happens
 too.
 The second isn't bbPress's fault, it's
 [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html
 /wp-content/plugins/support-forums/inc/class-hooks.php?marks=403-490#L400
 the crazy amount of logic] that is being requested to noindex things
 (you'll find more query triggering in there). I'm starting to think we'd
 be better off noindexing all of bbpress and selectively removing it..

 The first would be helped greatly if it were altering the global
 `$wp_query` object rather than making it's own, but that would require a
 significant change in how bbPress works, and would mean it can't be
 embedded within other pages as easy, so not really an option, it's just
 something we have to deal with :)

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