[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11856: URL for 1st comments page is not canonical

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#11856: URL for 1st comments page is not canonical
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 Reporter:  sirzooro                       |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect (bug)                   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Canonical                      |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch close 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by chriscct7):

 * keywords:  needs-patch reporter-feedback => needs-patch close 2nd-opinion
 * severity:  major => normal


Comment:

 This seems to be an invalid concern. I could see a situation where a theme
 might want to have a distinct page for just comments on page 1. An example
 would be how Disquis works, where they actually have a unique page for the
 first page of comments, which only contains the topics and threaded
 replies, and doesn't contain any of the actual contents of the post.
 Changing this behavior at this stage would break compatibility with
 plugins and themes already taking advantage of it. Since there is a good
 solution already for those who don't want this to happen (htaccess or PHP
 based redirects) this really isn't all too much of an issue. Asking for
 2nd opinion, but recommending close as invalid.

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