[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #63544: Provide a way to switch off the redirect_canonical() function

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#63544: Provide a way to switch off the redirect_canonical() function
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 Reporter:  lowellj55    |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Canonical    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Changes (by jorbin):

 * status:  new => closed
 * version:  6.8 =>
 * resolution:   => wontfix
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi @lowellj55, welcome to WordPress Trac.

 WordPress has a philosohphy of
 [https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#:~:text=Decisions%2C%20not%20options
 Decisions, not Options] becouse

 > Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a
 decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option this
 ultimately leads to frustration. As developers we sometimes feel that
 providing options for everything is a good thing, you can never have too
 many choices, right? Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones,
 choices that the average end user has no interest in.

 Rather than user facing options, WordPress has hooks (like the one you
 used in this situation) so that these rare cases can be solved without
 adding options that are unnecessary for the majority of users. As such, I
 am closing this as `wontfix`.

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