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> It's one of the reasons why I point people to using Wordpress + SEO plugins like Yoast, which deal with most if not all of these edge cases automatically.

This is pretty good advice, though what we see more commonly is that Yoast is misconfigured (or not configured at all), which causes more problems than it solves. Another thing that happens is solutions like Yoast will throw lots of errors that actually don't matter because Yoast's goal is to drive interaction with Yoast. It's not always easy to make the distinction.

But yes, for a lot of people "just use Wordpress" is a good solution, and an attentive Yoast install can be super helpful!



Could you elaborate on what misconfigured means in the context of Yoast?


Yoast does things like automatically set up redirects if you change pages, but that may or may not be what you need.

Depending on your setup you may or may not want categories/tags/etc. to be included in your sitemaps but Yoast will put them there.

In general I think Yoast (or really anything) is likely to be a net positive and while it makes some things easier it still requires work and thought.




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