[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Duplicate content issue with 'enforce a trailing slash' a

  • WordPress version: 3.4.1
    WordPress SEO version: 1.2.4

    I did this: Check the “Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL’s” and use pagination for some posts.

    I expected the plugin to do this: Add trailing slash only to categories and tags URLs.

    Instead it did this: Add trailing slash to sub-pages of paginated posts also, this happened lately, which creates two versions of each sub-page in Google index, one with the trailing slash and one without as follows:

    example.com/post/2/
example.com/post/2

    I am looking for advice here, I am aware that unchecking this option might resolve the issue by creating a 301 redirect from the “/” version to the non-“/” version, but I would prefer keeping the trailing slash for categories and tags and removing it for sub-pages of the paginated articles.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Contributor Joost de Valk

    (@joostdevalk)

    Hmm I wonder why it doesn’t add it consistenly for paginanted posts and pages, that’s what it should do.

    Plugin Contributor Joost de Valk

    (@joostdevalk)

    Fixed for the next release, it won’t add slashed on those anymore ??

    Thread Starter drrxa

    (@drrxa)

    Thanks Joost, you are the best ?? Waiting for the next release.

    Plugin Contributor Joost de Valk

    (@joostdevalk)

    You can try the development version if you want to test it. You can download the development version from here, or you can download it directly here.

    Thread Starter drrxa

    (@drrxa)

    Hi Joost, thanks for prompt updating, now the URLs for sub-pages of paginated posts does not have the trailing slash, but the canonical and the rel-next and rel-prev link tags still points to the slash version of the URL.

    URL: https://example.com/post/2
link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/post/2/"
link rel="prev" href="https://example.com/post"
link rel="next" href="https://example.com/post/3/"

    The Categories and Tags URLs and their link tags are working properly.

    URL: https://example.com/category/first-category/
link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/category/first-category/"
link rel="next" href="https://example.com/category/first-category/2/"

    Thread Starter drrxa

    (@drrxa)

    A temporary solution for the above problem using wpseo filters. I used the following code in the functions.php file:

    // Remove the trailing slash from the canonical URL of the sub-pages of paginated posts
function remove_canonical_trailing_slash($url) {
	if (is_singular()) {
		return untrailingslashit($url);
	} else {
		return $url;
	}
}
add_filter('wpseo_canonical','remove_canonical_trailing_slash',10,1);

// Remove the trailing slash from the URL of the next and prev link tags of sub-pages of paginated posts
function remove_nxtprv_trailing_slash($linktag) {
	if (is_singular()) {
		return str_replace('/"', '"', $linktag);
	} else {
		return $linktag;
	}
}
add_filter('wpseo_prev_rel_link','remove_nxtprv_trailing_slash',10,1);
add_filter('wpseo_next_rel_link','remove_nxtprv_trailing_slash',10,1);

    Hope this is helpful.

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