The sitemap can show links with anchors

[moorscode]

Please give us a description of what happened.

This is highly likely coming from plugins (or themes) that hook into our sitemap flow.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1. Register a link to the sitemap containing a hashmark

Context

Links containing a hashmark are essentially the same URL as without.

Todo

• Strip out any #.... additions in any sitemap URLs
  • This should be done using wp_parse_url with the PHP_URL_FRAGMENT fragment

[jonoalderson]

Hmm. Some site setups (particularly early generation Single Page Apps) might use anchor states, in conjunction with the History API, to change the page / state of the page.

E.g., example.com/#about and example.com/#products might render different states.

We should probably strip this automatically, but leave an option/filter for people to disable that disabling...

[markhowellsmead]

Has any progress been made on this? Are anchor links stripped from the sitemap URLs?

[PabVidCal]

Any news about this option?

[jonoalderson]

Do you have an example site which is including these? Would be good to understand what's causing this in the wild.