Why GET Parameters Disappear on the Home Page

A routing and redirect troubleshooting note for projects where GET parameters are stripped only on the site home page.

One of the more confusing redirect bugs is when GET parameters work on all internal pages but disappear on the home page. That usually means the issue is not in the general router, but in a special-case homepage redirect rule.

What to test first

disable custom redirect rules temporarily
compare homepage behavior with an internal page using the same parameter
check the home-page template and plugins for forced canonical redirects
verify whether friendly URL rules treat the root path differently

If the bug survives even with a nearly empty .htaccess, the redirect is probably being introduced by application logic rather than by Apache rewrite rules alone.

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