[wp-hackers] Canonical integration into core

Wed Feb 18 09:46:15 GMT 2009

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:

> It's not just about what WordPress does. For example:
>
> http://example.com/about/
>
> and
>
> http://example.com/about/?from=email
>
> will serve up the same pages in most WordPress installs. If you add the
> rel="canonical" link to the <head>, the latter will have all links pointing
> to it counted toward the first one. That's, for me, one of the main uses of
> the tag.
>
> Best,
> Joost

Yes, but the second URL is not native to WordPress, so the canonical tag is
effectively plugin territory, except for paged comments.

-- 
http://scribu.net