?/amp why are my amp pages like this

[jillianok]

I have paid a computer person to install plugin and setup amp on my website. However to see the amp pages you have do
mydomain.com.au/?amp. not /amp. Why is this. I have not seen any other amp pages with the question mark ?

[cayci]

The question mark marks the beginning of a query string. Please refer to a simple explanation of query strings.

From the WordPress.org plugin directory:
How can I view the AMP version of my site?"
To view the AMP version, add /?amp at the end of your url.

[DrLightman]

With permalinks enabled you should have /amp, not "amp" as a GET parameter

[amedina]

Make sure that permalinks are enabled in your site. And thanks for using the plugin :)

[emresque]

Hi,

I still get the question mark although i have permalinks enabled and my normal pages and posts have urls without question marks. And when i just type /amp et the end of my urls it goes 404. Can anybody help me on this? (example page-->seo hizmeti

[westonruter]

@emresque The query var is used for pages and any other non-hierarchical post type. Please see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/0-6-0-not-working-for-pages/#post-9903766

[emresque]

ah now i see, it is true that for blog posts i have normal urls without the question mark..good to know that it is ok from google's point of view..thanks for the information Weston!

[CVANL]

Hi Folks, I started using AMP at my wordpress website 4 days ago. In the first 2 days my amp pages were detected with /amp/ at the end. But since yesterday it has been changed to ?amp

The problem is that website is now redirecting the browser at pages from /amp/ to the desktop url without amp. this is an example of a page:

1. https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/amp/

When you visit this url, the amp is not showing up. But there is an AMP version 100% sure.

2. https://coronavirusactueel.nl/burgemeesters-bespreken-overlast-motorrijders/amp/

This is an example if a post and when you visit this url it's redirected to ?amp and that's an AMP version of the post.

Could it be that my caching plugin wp-rocket or the google mod_pagespeed causes this problem? Because I started using them since yesterday.

I am afraid that this will mess up my google indexing and that I will have duplicate pages for more that 2000 posts.

When you search in google: site:coronavirusactueel.nl amp you can see that /amp/ is what google indexed. But these pages don't work anymore.

Could somebody advice me what to do?

Thanks! And greetings from the Netherlands.

Ray

[westonruter]

@CVANL I presume you used a different AMP plugin previously?

If you look at the source code of https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/ you'll see:

<link rel="amphtml" href="https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/?amp">

So the AMP version of a page (or another hierarchical post type) does not end in /amp/ but ?amp.

Nevertheless a post like https://coronavirusactueel.nl/burgemeesters-bespreken-overlast-motorrijders/ has:

<link rel="amphtml" href="https://coronavirusactueel.nl/burgemeesters-bespreken-overlast-motorrijders/?amp">

So for the AMP version of that post ends in ?amp.

Note that the inconsistency of URLs for posts and pages will be addressed in #2204 where we'll default to ?amp for all URLs.

Google's index will update to to use the new AMP URLs.

Nevertheless, I'm not sure why attempting to access https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/amp/ is redirecting to https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/ and not https://coronavirusactueel.nl/corona-kaart-nederland/?amp

It's most likely because the AMP plugin doesn't even try to add the /amp/ endpoint to pages:

amp-wp/includes/amp-helper-functions.php

Line 100 in 1d64124

add_rewrite_endpoint( amp_get_slug(), EP_PERMALINK );

Because of this, WordPress's own canonical redirects are kicking in.

What you could in the short term while waiting for Google to re-index your pages is add a plugin that does this:

namespace AMP_Register_Page_Endpoint;

function add_amp_endpoint() {
	\add_rewrite_endpoint( amp_get_slug(), EP_PERMALINK | EP_PAGES );
}

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, function () {
	flush_rewrite_rules( false );
	add_amp_endpoint();
} );

add_action( 'init', function() {
	add_amp_endpoint();
} );

I've added this to an existing extension plugin that deals with other aspects of AMP endpoint migration which you can use to do this: https://gist.github.com/westonruter/6b7d3b168711ee03c4ee29b68c3719b2

I've added a link to installation instructions in the comments.

[DrLightman]

Try visiting Settings | Permalinks page of your dashboard to force a flush of rewrite rules.