Proper way to link to sitemap-hidden pages
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using the PAGE_LINK symbol
Maybe it's a bug or possibly I'm not doing something right.If I have a page prefixed with an underscore (this hides it from showing up on the sitemap), it seems impossible to link to it using {$PAGE_LINK}. Oddly, using this symbol replaces the underscore with a dash, resulting in a "not found" error when clicking on the link generated by this symbol.
For example. Let's say I have a page located in the Welcome zone, like so… :_test
If I use {$PAGE_LINK,:_test}, the link is transformed into: /index.php?page=-test (with a dash instead of an underscsore)
Now if you have a page called -test and use {$PAGE_LINK,:-test} (with a dash), it will successfully link to that page.
I could setup a page-redirect so that all directs to -test are referred to _test (I haven't tested this yet, it should work in theory, right?) but that could be too many redirects for individuals with many underscored pages as they'd have to set up a redirect for each.
In short, I think the {$PAGE_LINK} symbol should support linking to underscored pages (or pages hidden from the sitemap), as currently it appears that it does not support this.
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If you navigate to a page that doesn't exist with a dash in it (i.e. -test), the "not found" error says that _test isn't found.
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