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Description

Redirects incoming links to the proper URL based on the site url.

Search engines consider www.somedomain.com and somedomain.com to be two different URLs when they both go to the same location. This SEO enhancement prevents penalty for duplicate content by redirecting all incoming links to one or the other. Prevents redirection for feeds, trackbacks, searches, and admin URLs. Does not redirect on non-pretty-permalink-supporting IIS 7+, page/post previews, WP admin, Trackbacks, robots.txt, favicon.ico, searches, or on POST requests. Will also attempt to find the correct link when a user enters a URL that does not exist based on exact WordPress query. Will instead try to parse the URL or query in an attempt to figure the correct page to go to.

Usage

$string|void = redirect_canonical( $requested_url, $do_redirect );

Parameters

$requested_url

( string ) optional – Optional. The URL that was requested, used to figure if redirect is needed.

$do_redirect

( bool ) optional default: 1 – Optional. Redirect to the new URL.

Returns

string|void The string of the URL, if redirect needed.

Source

File name: wordpress/wp-includes/canonical.php
Lines:

  
/**
 * Filters the canonical redirect URL.
 *
 * Returning false to this filter will cancel the redirect.
 *
 * @since 2.3.0
 *
 * @param string $redirect_url  The redirect URL.
 * @param string $requested_url The requested URL.
 */
  $redirect_url = apply_filters( 'redirect_canonical', $redirect_url, $requested_url );

  // Yes, again -- in case the filter aborted the request.
  if ( ! $redirect_url || strip_fragment_from_url( $redirect_url ) === strip_fragment_from_url( $requested_url ) ) {
    return;
  }

  if ( $do_redirect ) {
    // Protect against chained redirects.
    if ( ! redirect_canonical( $redirect_url, false ) ) {
      wp_redirect( $redirect_url, 301 );
      exit;
    } else {
      // Debug.
      // die("1: $redirect_url<br />2: " . redirect_canonical( $redirect_url, false ) );
      return;
    }
  } else {
    return $redirect_url;
  }
}
 

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