[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20224: WordPress should always add a / at the end of URLs
WordPress Trac
wp-trac at lists.automattic.com
Tue Mar 13 09:54:17 UTC 2012
#20224: WordPress should always add a / at the end of URLs
---------------------------+-----------------------------
Reporter: Confridin | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Rewrite Rules | Version: 3.4
Severity: normal | Keywords: needs-patch
---------------------------+-----------------------------
Users can change permalinks. They can add whatever they whant at the end
of each url. For example :[[BR]]
- mydomain.com/myurl
- mydomain.com/myurl/
- mydomain.com/myurl.php
- mydomain.com/myurl.html
- mydomain.com/myurl.htm
- ...
There is a bug with search engines and empty URLs (mydomain.com/myurl).
Google, Yahoo or Bing consider that it's not the same URl as
mydomain.com/myurl/. They always try to add a / at the end of those URLs :
it creates duplicate content for search engines that harms website
visibility. For example, if a WordPress Blog uses /%postname% as
permalink, Google is going to index both url:
- mydomain.com/myurl
- mydomain.com/myurl/
In order to correct this issue, WordPress should always add a / at the end
of empty URLs (for example, without a / or without extension like .php,
.asp, .html, ...).
--
Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20224>
WordPress Trac <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress blogging software
More information about the wp-trac
mailing list