Case sensitive URLs

WordPress adds a canonical image meta, so Google is not “fooled” by how you present the URL.

Google says a canonical URL is a ‘strong hint’ that the content is the same and only show one URL in it’s index but I’ve been told it does not mean the same 100% of the time.

I’m guessing there might be some misunderstanding or the benefits of having case-insensitive URLs outweigh the cons (if any) of having two different URLs with correct canonical set.

There were concerns raised by an SEO agency at our end and they are asking us to make the URLs case-sensitive.

That will break all sorts of stuff. WP lowercases everything internally.

Actually, my bad. They had actually suggested to 301 redirect any urls with CAPS to lower case and not make them case sensitive.

Even that feels odd and could break things or cause unexpected issues.

e.g. what if someone intentionally puts a capital letter in the post slug?

Canonical would point to something.com/ABC/ but that would redirect to something.com/abc/

Thanks for mentioning why slugs should not be made case sensitive.

post slugs are lowercased