This is a strange behavior I can't come up with a good explanation for:
If you append
/?name to a WordPress URL, it is loading the blog page.
I came up with it by creating a custom Aweber "thank you" page, which is supposed to load at http://mydomain.com/thank-you. However Aweber appends a lot of information to the URL via query strings, so the URL ends up being something like:
This doesn't open the thank you page but the blog. As soon as I remove the
name part, it loads the correct page.
And reverse engineered: every WordPress page seems to load the blog if
/?name is appended to the URL. See:
- rollingstones.com (I'm not allowed to post 2 links)
(Interestingly enough the rolling stone example doesn't affect pages.
/band/ even when going to
/band/?name. In my example it also affects the page)
Any ideas where this behaviour comes from, and how to overcome it? Thanks!