Trailing slashes dropped on save
Trailing slashes are dropped on save or redirect, so permalinks with a slash do not resolve as entered.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 September 2024 · last reported 8 September 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who enter a permalink with a trailing slash find that the slash is removed when they save, or that the page will not resolve with the slash until they edit the slug and save again.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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