Keyword matching in URL fails when there is a period in the keyword.

[terw-dan]

What did you expect to happen?

When I have a keyword with a period, it to match in the URL.

What happened instead?

When a period is used in the keyword, it isn't matched in the URL because periods are transformed to hyphens.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

Create a post with a period in the URL, use the same keyword. It doesn't match.

Technical info

• Platform: WordPress
• Platform version: 4.7
• Yoast SEO version: 4.0

[Pcosta88]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 188014 when this conversation has been closed.

[Pcosta88]

Note: Keywords with a period such as .net only get a hyphen when they ARE NOT the first position in the slug.

[worldsdream]

Will we see a fix for this?

[worldsdream]

Today I had another blog post with the name .rar and it didn’t work as expected.

Will we ever see a fix for this 3,5 year old bug? @jdevalk