Canonical redirect ?category_name= to ?cat=

[greuben]

See #16644

[scribu]

Shouldn't there also be a check for wether pretty permalinks are on?

[greuben]

Replying to scribu:

Shouldn't there also be a check for wether pretty permalinks are on?

Yes added it.

[scribu]

I've just learned from ryan that ?cat= doesn't in fact include children, while ?category_name does.

So ?cat= is different from ?category_name=. Therefore, there shouldn't be a canonical redirect.

[scribu]

Also, if permalinks are enabled, ?cat= shouldn't redirect to /category/ either.

[greuben]

Replying to scribu:

I've just learned from ryan that ?cat= doesn't in fact include children, while ?category_name does.

So ?cat= is different from ?category_name=. Therefore, there shouldn't be a canonical redirect.

Okay, closing this as invalid.