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Canonical Link

Description

Adds the canonical link to your site (Learn More).

Activate and then set your permalinks to “Post name” under Settings > Permalinks. That’s it.

Verify that it’s working correctly with the Firefox add-on.

Supports the ability to customize the canonical link for any specific page, post, or even custom post types (including WooCommerce Products and bbPress Topics).

Installation

Automatic

  • From your WordPress Admin, navigate to: Plugins > Add New
  • Search for: Canonical Link
  • Install it
  • Activate it
  • Please see Additional Instructions

Manual

  • Download
  • Unzip
  • Upload to /plugins/ folder
  • Activate
  • Please see Additional Instructions

Additional Instructions

You will also need to update your permalinks (if you haven’t already), which will give you desirable SEO-friendly and user-friendly URLs anyway:

  • From your WordPress Admin, navigate to: Settings > Permalinks
  • Under “Common Settings“, select “Post name
  • Click “Save Changes” and you’re done

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Contributors and Developers

“Canonical Link” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Change Log

1.6

  • Minor code cleanup

1.5

  • Minor cleanup

1.4

  • Added support for custom canonical links on single pages and posts

1.3

  • Added https support

1.2

  • Removed syntax error from code

1.1

  • Cleans URLs better, removing query strings (?)

1.0

  • New