Comments on: Canonical Web Addresses

By: Dito

Dito — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:37:52 +0000

i have a heck of a time figuring out how to .htaccess 301 redirect my www. to my non-www. it seems almost everything i find on the web tells me how to do the opposite

By: Simon Willisonâ€™s Weblog Friday, 2nd March 2007

Simon Willisonâ€™s Weblog Friday, 2nd March 2007 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:26:22 +0000

Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin (via) Neat WordPress plugin that forces a redirect to an itemâ€™s permalink if the URL has any extra crud in it.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:22:40 +0000

Mark, I’m down for it in core. I’ve got a stripped down version of the plugin I’ve been testing on WP.com, want me to send it to you?

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:52:47 +0000

Mark, it would be nice.

You are correct, WordPress does a fantastic job of canonical web addresses throughout its experience. That is probably why, I am enjoying working through these little details.

I am reminded how I am one of those people that have to do it to understand it. Most of these are bridges that the WordPress team likely crossed long ago.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:39:16 +0000

engtech, Brilliant investigation! Using a URL too long for someone to hand craft also isolates some of the issues. Your post reminded me to install Bennett McElwee's less plugin. Not becomes of the issues discussed here, because I find the normal 'more' behavior jarring.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:14:59 +0000

I'd like to get something like that into WordPress core. For 2.2, I worked in improving WP's trailing-slash (or not) consistency (see [4886], but that doesn't account for human typos or the issue of someone moving from a ?p=x structure to a "pretty" structure or www/no-www variations. We pretty much have the "how did they get there?" angle covered, as far as WP-generated links, but it'd be nice to cover the human-error angle as well.