Duplicate canonical URLs in WordPress
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Hi everyone,
I'm driving myself insane trying to figure this one out and am hoping someone has more technical chops than I do. Here's the situation...
I'm getting duplicate canonical tags on my pages and posts, one is inside of the WordPress SEO (plugin) commented section, and the other is elsewhere in the header. I am running the latest version of WordPress 3.1.3 and the Genesis framework.
After doing some testing and adding the following filters to my functions.php:
<code>remove_action('wp_head', 'genesis_canonical'); remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');</code>
... what I get is this:
With the plugin active + NO "remove action" - duplicate canonical tags
With the plugin disabled + NO "remove action" - a single canonical tag
With the plugin disabled + A "remove action" - no canonical tagI have tried using only one of these remove_actions at a time, and then combining them both. Regardless, as long as I have the plugin active I get duplicate canonical tags.
Is this a bug in the plugin, perhaps somehow enabling the canonical functionality of WordPress?
Thanks for your help everyone.
- Robert Dempsey
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Hi Matthew - not that I saw. It appears to be a feature built in and non-configurable. Lot's of indexation options but nothing for canonicals.
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Hi,
DOes the plugin have an option to disable canonical URL's? For example in platinum SEO its just a tick box, when its ticked the plugin and WP itself adds the canonical tag, untick it and just wordpress adds it automatically.
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