Yoast creating redirect for the front page.

  • Resolved Nadav Levi

    (@123nadav)


    10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello everyone, how are you doing?

    I’m using the Memsmerize Theme Pro, and I noticed that the front page actually has a slug.

    I contacted the theme support, and they told me it’s connected to Yoast and the Gutenberg editor.

    Here are screenshots from our emails:

    Email screenshot

    The theme developer also uploaded a video demonstrating the issue:

    Video link

    Just for the record, even when the slug is empty, there’s still a redirect:

    “yourdomain.com/mesmerize-pro” to the front page (yourdomain.com)

    As you can see in the video, before activating the Gutenberg editor (the default WordPress editor), the slug is empty. However, even when the slug is empty, there’s still a redirect:

    “yourdomain.com/mesmerize-pro” to the front page (yourdomain.com)

    On my website, I’ve temporarily changed it to get rid of the mesmerize-pro URL. (i changed that to “/cerrajero-barcelona” to git rid of the “/mesmerize-pro”)

    But this behavior doesn’t seem right; the front page shouldn’t have any weird redirects.

    I’ll also try to post this issue on your GitHub to see if we can find a solution. If you have any ideas on why this happened or how to fix it, I’d appreciate hearing about it.

    Regards,
    Nadav

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello Nadav,

    Thanks for reaching out regarding your homepage slug.

    The Yoast SEO plugin doesn’t automatically create slugs for pages. When you create a page, it has a slug normally e.g. yourdomain/page-a. Now, when you set yourdomain/page-a as the homepage of your site, WordPress hides the slug (page-a) from the URL. Also, when you check your homepage slug from the Quick Edit option or if you use the block editor, you will still see the slug of the homepage – page-a.

    However, when you access your homepage from yourdomain/page-a directly instead of yourdomain (without the slug), it will redirect to the homepage without the slug. This is a WordPress behaviour and not a Yoast SEO issue.

    I can confirm that visiting /cerrajero-barcelona/ has a 301: Permanent redirect to the homepage, a redirect created by WordPress. Again, this is the expected behaviour and not a problem.

    By the way, our GitHub repository is for reporting bugs or suggesting features, it’s not for providing support.

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