Wildcard URL rules skip parent and partial slugs
Wildcard and pattern rules do not match the way owners expect, including parent pages and slug fragments.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 18 June 2021 · last reported 31 January 2024
What's going wrong
Owners who write a URL pattern with an asterisk find that a rule for a child page does not also match its parent, or that a trailing wildcard fails entirely.
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