WordPress comment pagination and 301 redirects
I recently enabled paginated comments on my WordPress blog. Later I decided to disable pagination and just go for the regular ol’ a single comments listing on each post (regardless of how many comments there are).
After the chance I was a bit worried about duplicate content, but thankfully when I unchecked the ‘break comments into pages with…’ option from wp-admin -> settings -> discussion WordPress automatically took care of redirecting!
Here is the example:
http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/dreamweaver-document-too-large-copy-past/comment-page-2/
auto redirects to
http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/dreamweaver-document-too-large-copy-past/
This is the behavior that I desired. Woot!
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