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Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 3 weeks ago

#4463 accepted task (blessed)

Pretty permalink on search

Reported by: markjaquith's profile markjaquith Owned by: aristath's profile aristath
Milestone: 6.5 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.3
Component: Permalinks Keywords: has-patch has-unit-tests needs-dev-note
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Ryan:

In trunk, with cruft free links, I get stuff like this:

http://foo.blog/page/3/?s=test

That's not right. Maybe we should revert back to pre [5454] to fix the trunk problems.

[5454] was the commit for #3930

If at all possible, I'd like to work with the new code.

Attachments (2)

4463.diff (956 bytes) - added by wonderboymusic 11 years ago.
4463_1.diff (1.1 KB) - added by faishal 11 years ago.
New patch

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Change History (36)

#1 @Nazgul
16 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added
  • Milestone changed from 2.3 (trunk) to 2.4 (future)

#2 @MtDewVirus
16 years ago

Tested with 7236.

Whenever performing searches, the search results do have URLs in the form of /?s=test.

#3 @DD32
15 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Template
  • Priority changed from high to normal

What would be a suggested fix for this ticket? /search/search-term/page/2 ? /?s=search-term&paged=2 ?

#4 @Denis-de-Bernardy
15 years ago

+1 for this: /?s=search-term&paged=2

#5 @Denis-de-Bernardy
15 years ago

  • Component changed from Template to Permalinks
  • Owner changed from anonymous to ryan

#6 @hakre
14 years ago

/search/search-term/page/2 with a configureable option in backend for wording of "search" would be pretty nice to fillup serps.

anyway isn't this pretty uninteresting anyway as long as it doesn't lead to a 404?

#7 @janeforshort
14 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.9 to Future Release

No patch, punting.

#8 @wonderboymusic
11 years ago

  • Keywords reporter-feedback added; needs-patch removed

Is this still relevant?

#9 @SergeyBiryukov
11 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added; reporter-feedback removed

Paged search links still look as described: http://trunk.wordpress/page/2/?s=test.

Before [5454], they used to be http://trunk.wordpress/?s=test&paged=2.

#10 @wonderboymusic
11 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed

Makes search links with pretty permalinks on used paged in the query string

@wonderboymusic
11 years ago

#11 @wonderboymusic
11 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Future Release to 3.6

Refreshed patch against trunk - this ticket is like 19,000 tickets old, but the patch works

#12 @wonderboymusic
11 years ago

#21748 was marked as a duplicate.

@faishal
11 years ago

New patch

#13 @faishal
11 years ago

  • Cc saiyedfaishal@… added

#14 @MikeHansenMe
10 years ago

  • Cc mdhansen@… added

Both 4463.diff and 4463_1.diff apply and work as intended. In 4463_1.diff there is a couple addition lines for is_single ! is_home and ! is_front_page. I am not sure if that is necessary as 4463.diff seems to work without it.

#15 @nacin
10 years ago

  • Keywords 3.7-early added
  • Milestone changed from 3.6 to Future Release

Longstanding bug.

#16 @wonderboymusic
10 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Future Release to 3.7

these are all marked 3.7-early

#17 @wonderboymusic
10 years ago

  • Keywords needs-unit-tests added
  • Milestone changed from 3.7 to 3.8

#18 @dd32
10 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 3.8 to Future Release

#19 @ryan
9 years ago

  • Owner ryan deleted
  • Status changed from new to assigned

#20 @chriscct7
8 years ago

  • Keywords 3.7-early removed
  • Milestone changed from Future Release to 4.4
  • Owner set to chriscct7
  • Status changed from assigned to reviewing

#21 @chriscct7
8 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 4.4 to Future Release
  • Owner chriscct7 deleted

#22 @Mte90
8 months ago

  • Summary changed from Strange paging links to Pretty permalink on search

Just adding a more context focused title to avoid reading all the history in this 16 years ticket.

I don't know if it is something that we want, I mean now it is a standard that on wordpress the only parameter not pretty is s for the search.

The topic was opened because at the time there were some changes on adding as pretty the paged value.

As today, all the search engine doesn't have pretty permalinks for the search string value like Google.

#23 @oglekler
3 months ago

@joostdevalk can you please give your opinion on this matter. Thank you 🙏

#24 @joostdevalk
3 months ago

I'd actually prefer us to rip out the clean version of search permalinks from all WordPress sites. Basically get rid of /search/ altogether and redirect all /search/ to ?s= queries.

For search, using a parameterized URL has remained the most common pattern across all big CMSes and big websites. It makes tracking a lot easier, and not having both clean and non-clean modes actually improves cache hit rates and decreases spam attack vectors.

Paginated search URLs should then always use a second parameter, so, back to https://example.com/?s=test&paged=2 or similar.

#25 @jonoaldersonwp
3 months ago

+1. Using pretty permalinks for search causes all sorts of SEO & performance headaches. Would love to remove this.

#26 @markjaquith
3 months ago

In the sixteen years since I opened this ticket, my mind has changed. The web has spoken, and searches use query strings. The reason is rather obvious: it’s the only non-JS way to submit a typed search from a form.

I like @joostdevalk’s suggestion.

#27 @johnbillion
3 months ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added; has-patch removed
  • Type changed from defect (bug) to task (blessed)

#28 @oglekler
6 weeks ago

@SergeyBiryukov can we plan this for 6.5?

#29 @aristath
5 weeks ago

  • Owner set to aristath
  • Status changed from reviewing to accepted

#30 @SergeyBiryukov
5 weeks ago

  • Milestone changed from Future Release to 6.5

This ticket was mentioned in PR #5569 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by @aristath.


4 weeks ago
#31

  • Keywords has-patch has-unit-tests added; needs-unit-tests needs-patch removed

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4463

This PR does the following:

  • Removes pretty permalinks for search results
  • Redirects old permalinks to the new ones (using ?s=query)

#32 @rajinsharwar
3 weeks ago

  • Keywords needs-dev-note added

The patch looks good and seems to resolve the said problem. I believe we will need a Dev Note for this change.

#33 @joostdevalk
3 weeks ago

I'm happy to write the dev note.

#34 @jorbin
3 weeks ago

Thanks for volunteering Joost!

I really like the direction this is going, but the unit tests seem to be taking a step backwards in the current patch. I noted this on the PR, but it would be good to get those back up to shape or improved before this lands.

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