[Plugin: All in One SEO Pack] Canonical tag and daily content

Our home page features an article every day. I’m noticing that the canonical by default declares the canonical href to be the current URL. That is exactly what we do not want to happen on the home page, declaring the canonical URL to be ‘/’ when the content is pulled from /2012/05/21/xxxx

In fact, in SEO if the canonical is the current URL, canonical is not supposed to be used. A page declaring itself to be itself is cliche

I have this fix code:

add_filter('aioseop_canonical_url', 'handle_canonical', 2, 1);
function handle_canonical($url) {

  $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  if($i = strpos($uri, '?')){
    $uri = substr($uri, 0, $i);
  }

  if($uri == '/'){
    //actual canonical will be in the first fetched post
    if($GLOBALS['posts'] && $GLOBALS['posts'][0]){
      $main_post = $GLOBALS['posts'][0];
      $url = $main_post->guid;
      //got it, but chop it
      if(preg_match('~(https?://)?([a-z0-9\._-]+)?(/.*)~', $url, $m)){
        if($m[2] == $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']){
          $url = $m[3];
        } else
        if(!empty($m[2])){
          $url = $m[2] . '/' . $m[3];
        } else {
          $url = $m[3];
        }
        $url = str_replace('//', '/', $url);
      }
    }
  }

  return $url;
}

to explain, if the current URL is the home page ($uri == ‘/’ should probably be something like $uri == $site_root) then what is the main post’s expected URL, where the content will permanently reside. It works cross domain while repairing an issue with our content importer defining the guid to be https://domain//uri/

Should something like that be in the plugin, or should I place it in our template functions to remain at the template/content level?

But please make sure the canonical tag does not print if the canonical href url equals the current URI

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