Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 2 years ago
#49682 new defect (bug)
oEmbed should not trigger for urls with fragments
Reported by: | dd32 | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Embeds | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
As reported in #meta4346 WordPress's link autoembeding embeds links with fragment anchors attached and ultimately causes the links meaning to change.
For example, the embed for https://wordpress.org/support/article/writing-posts/#visual-versus-text-editor will just be the Writing Posts page with no link to the specific section.
Change History (4)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta by clorith. View the logs.
2 years ago
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2 years ago
@dd32 I noticed in the Meta ticket you said "it might still be best to disable the embedding of WordPress.org URLS for the support forums." – seems like that could be a great interim solution, since the core issue hasn't been fixed in three years. Is that something you'd consider at this point?
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I ran into this today when I tried to refer a forum user to this specific part of a handbook page:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/navigation-block/#manage-menus-delete-rename
What happened instead is that the link was stripped back to this when it got embedded:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/navigation-block/
We have such great anchors all over the handbooks – would be great if we could use them in the forums without having to use workarounds.