Installation succesful skip link on multisite(subfolder) does not work.
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Description
Moved from: https://yoast.atlassian.net/browse/IM-1874
Reporter: @jeroenrotty
Please give us a description of what happened
The skip link in the lower right corner on the Succesful installation page does not work for multisite subsites, it links to the main site /wp-admin/ and not to the subsite wp-admin
To Reproduce
Step-by-step reproduction instructions
- Configure a WordPress installation in a subfolder or have a multisite network based on subfolders and check this on a subsite.
- Install Yoast SEO
- Check the skip link on the Installation successful page (lower right corner)
Expected results
Link to be correct.
Actual results
Link is incorrectly linking relative to .../wp-admin/..
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Research direction
Reproduce the installation-successful page on a WordPress multisite subsite using subfolder URLs, then inspect how the lower-right skip link is generated. Verify the link against the subsite's wp-admin path and confirm that it no longer points to the main site's /wp-admin/.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, php
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100