Redirect where both source and destination have a query string

#515246

Resolved Yair and Penina Spolter
3 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math free

We often use redirects from the souled subdomain to hide tracking data and make a link look cleaner. For example, https://souled.olami.org/613 redirects to https://souled.olami.org/?rfo=a2i5f000001YCGt and when the user clics JOIN NOW, they are taken to https://online.olami.org/joinsouled?rfo=a2i5f000001YCGt . The query string (key-value pair) rfo=a2i5f000001YCGt tells Salesforce that this students was referred by The 613 Foundation. Here is where the issue comes up: I have noticed that occasionally these links are shared on social media, and the platform adds more tracking to the url. When this happens, the link ends up looking like this: https://souled.olami.org/?rfo=a2i5f000001YCGt?fblic=lf89fjg – the query string added by the platform gets appended to our query string with a “?” (not an &) which effectively breaks the tracking (it even threw an exception in SF once). Is there a way for the redirect tool to add that query string correctly?

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Nigel
3 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math business
Hello,

Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

This is the default behavior of our redirection module. It passes all the query strings to the redirected URL. You can use the below filter to disable appending query parameters to your redirected URLs.
```
/**
 * Disable appending the query string in the redirection URL.
 *
 * @param int $number
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/redirection/add_query_string', '__return_false' );
```
Here is how to add a filter to your site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.

Thank You
RankBot
3 years, 2 months ago

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