Forward slash link vs no forward slash

  • Resolved Fanaticweb

    (@fanaticweb)


    5 years ago

    Hi John,

    I’ve been getting few 404’s whereas the “broken” link is flagged this way:
    /tag/name-of-tag

    Yet, I know for a fact this can’t be possible given all these tags should default with a / at the end:
    /tag/name-of-tag/

    1. Should I create a redirect to those type of 404’s and simply include the forward slash at the end of the link? Or will this step be useless and cause redirect errors?

    2. In your opinion, what could possibly be the cause of those 404’s showing up? considering some of those tags inbound links came from an organic search

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    I can’t really answer that for you as it depends on the context of your site. If these requests are valid requests then you should look at why they have a missing slash and try and fix that. WordPress, if you have configured it correctly, should auto-redirect the trailing slash for you.

    Thread Starter Fanaticweb

    (@fanaticweb)

    Fair enough, I didn’t know there was a particular way of configuring WP when it came to native posts and post tags besides the Permalink settings.
    I’ll dig into it, thank you John

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