SEO Suite Problem with Canonical

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 3:55pm

Hi there

I’ve installed the SEO Suite extra, which is really useful - but one thing I noticed is that it formats canonical links incorrectly. It outputs them as meta tags:

<meta name="canonical" content="https://www.domain.co.uk/" />

But they shouldn’t be meta tags - they should be output like this:

<link rel=”canonical” href=https://domain.co.uk/” />

I’m looking through the snippet and plugins to see if I can amend this, but i can’t see where to do it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Andy

halftrainedharry · November 5, 2021, 4:01pm

I think there is a chunk with the name tplMeta, that you can change.

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:03pm

Yes you’re right - but then this changes ALL the meta tags - which isn’t what we want to do - it’s just the canonical meta tag we want to amend the formatting of

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:05pm

tm2000:

’ve installed the SEO Suite extra, which is really useful - but one thing I noticed is that it formats canonical links incorrectly. It outputs them as meta tags:
<meta name="canonical" content="https://www.domain.co.uk/" />
But they shouldn’t be meta tags - they should be output like this:
<link rel=”canonical” href=https://domain.co.uk/” />
I’m looking through the snippet and plugins to see if I can amend this, but i can’t see where to do it.

Any ideas?

I’ve added it as an issue on github (Canonical tag is formatted as a meta tag - wrongly · Issue #43 · Sterc/seosuite · GitHub) but really need to fix it ASAP on a new iste which has gone live

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:07pm

So Canonical need to use ‘tplLink’ instead of ‘tplMeta’.
But I can’t see how/where to change which tpl it uses?

halftrainedharry · November 5, 2021, 4:11pm

Maybe you can try changing this line to 'tpl' => $tplLink and see if that works:

github.com

Sterc/seosuite/blob/d8c1ba2ea4030e35768ac5e952e8536b38e59683/core/components/seosuite/model/seosuite/snippets/seosuitesnippets.class.php#L77

    
      
                      $this->config['tab_seo']['default_index_type'] ? 'index' : 'noindex',
                      $this->config['tab_seo']['default_follow_type'] ? 'follow' : 'nofollow'
                  ]),
                  'tpl'   => $tpl
              ];
          }
          
          
$meta['_canonical'] = [
              'name'  => 'canonical',
              'value' => $canonicalUrl,
              'tpl'   => $tpl
          ];
          
          
if (!empty($this->config['tab_social']['default_og_image'])) {
              $meta['og_image'] = [
                  'name'  => 'og:image',
                  'value' => $this->config['tab_social']['default_og_image'],
                  'tpl'   => $tplSocial
              ];
          }

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:11pm

Hmm - diggin around in seosuitesnippets.class.php I found this:


        $meta['_canonical'] = [
            'name'  => 'canonical',
            'value' => $canonicalUrl,
            'tpl'   => $tpl
        ];

So I'll try and make  specific tpl and change the above..

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:12pm

ha - you just found the same thing I did - lols. Will give it a go - cheers!

tm2000 · November 5, 2021, 4:14pm

Yep that did the trick! nice one!

system · November 7, 2021, 4:15pm

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