Removing slug ‘home’ from my homepage URL

  • Resolved moneysaurus

    (@moneysaurus)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Not sure if I should ask this from you or my theme developers. The issue is that my homepage slug automatically adds ‘home’ even after delete it and leave the slug for homepage blank, like here on the screen: https://www.screencast.com/t/jyaXNgmTwB6

    After I reload the page, I get slug ‘home’ automatically added in Yoast, although I don’t see it in permalink in WordPress. However when I type in ‘https://moneysaurus.com/home’ in browser I get redirected to https://moneysaurus.com. I believe this means that there are 2 same pages with different URLs: w/ and w/o slug ‘home.’

    Could you suggest a way out? Or is not related to Yoast but to the settings for my website/theme? Please advise. Thank you so much!

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  • devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    @moneysaurus Can you please confirm how the home page is set? Is the setting in WordPress under Settings>Reading for ‘Your Home Page Displays’ set to the page in question?

    As for having two identical pages with differing URLs, you can solve that by redirecting the other page to the home page URL.

    Thread Starter moneysaurus

    (@moneysaurus)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Carl,

    Thank you for replying. Here is the screenshot with my setup in Settings>Reading: https://www.screencast.com/t/Jn4Fp5E4 Hope this gives you some insight into my issue.

    I understand that I can redirect one page to the other – actually it works that way already; I believe the redirect is done somewhere in the theme files. My concern is duplicate homepages (with URL https://moneysaurus.com and https://moneysaurus.com/home and SEO issues so I want to have only one URL for the home page.

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    devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    @moneysaurus Your settings are correct, thank you for confirming them.

    We also checked on the /home URL and see it redirecting to the home page (meaning without /home) so this wouldn’t cause any issue with SEO. When Google crawls the /home URL it’s literally being told that that isn’t the URL of a page to include in it’s index, and that it should be using https://moneysaurus.com for any requests to the /home URL.

    Thread Starter moneysaurus

    (@moneysaurus)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Carl,

    That’s a great relief for me today, thank you!

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