canonical and pagination

Could anyone give a hand?

Hi there,

Have you tried Tom’s code from the same thread?

This code:

add_action( 'wpsp_after_wrapper', function( $settings ) {
    if ( 123 === (int) $settings['list_id'] ) {
        next_posts_link( __( 'Older posts' ) );
        previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts' ) );
    }
} );

Change 123 to the WPSP id of the WPSP list you’re trying to apply this on.

Here’s how to add PHP – https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

Hi,

Thanks, I read that thread.

This code is for turning numbering pagination into previous and next post which I don’t need, I enjoy the numbering pagination by default.

I am in need of the rel-canonical problem to be fixed in some way.

I do hope there is a fix to this cuz using wpsp and using a static page as archive page is definitely one of the major usages for this plugin.

“The main issue here is that WP Show Posts is meant for a simple list of posts. While pagination is possible, it can cause issues if you’re expecting the page to act as an archive page with canonical links. This would require a custom solution to be added that the plugin simply isn’t able to do by default on static pages.” – TOM.

Need to turn from abc.com/blog-archive to abc.com/blog and show related posts. Using a static page and wpsp is the ideal solution I can think of now.

I’m not sure which one is the best approach but I’ll give these things a try.

Get Yoast or Rankmath to do it for you. I believe they automatically check pages for any paginated posts and try to add rel attributes to it.

Perhaps this would help – https://yoast.com/help/canonical-urls-in-wordpress-seo/

Or try:

A snippet the checks if there’s any pagination and hooks the appropriate <link> rel tags on the head.
https://orbitingweb.com/blog/adding-next-and-prev-tags-to-paginated-posts/

Hi,

Thanks but they don’t work.

I’ll try something else.

No problem. It’s pretty tricky to do as WPSP wasn’t exactly coded for it.

You can try directly modifying the links but I don’t think there’s a filter for pagination links that fit the description.

A deeper dive on the plugin code shows this.
https://github.com/tomusborne/wp-show-posts/blob/35e410d7800273fc66f211c0f80d553e95d17f83/inc/functions.php#L381-L394

Not sure if paginate_links() (WordPress core function), has filter for attributes.

Yes, I agree.

Thank you for the support!