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OK, a quick play shows that the setting for the strip category base are now being maintained. Good news.

We can create a new category but it returns a 404 and the News plugin still doesn’t respect the genre set or add to sitemap as default on posts as per the settings.

Still, it’s progress!

Well that explains the permalinks change!

We’ll download the development version and see if it fixes our issues and come back once we’ve had a play.

Many thanks, Joost.

Might as well throw our two bob’s worth in!

Please note we hugely appreciate Joost’s work (whatever his motivation!) and this isn’t a gripe, just info that may help sort the bugs.

We’re using WP 3.4.1 & WP SEO 1.2.5 & SEO News 1.0 on dedicated server with a customised Genesis child theme.

We had reverted to 1.1.9 as the News sitemap had failed to update after recent plugin updates, but figured the launch of the SEO News would remedy that.

We have found that after installing 1.2.5 we lost the strip category base and ended up with 10k 404s in Webmasters in 48hrs! Changing the setting and then re-saving fixes this, but if we change anything else we have to re-save the category base setting.

It seems the plugin has changed our permalinks settings in WP to ‘post name’ instead of custom, and we can’t seem to create new categories.

The News SEO plugin doesn’t respect the genre setting and also doesn’t default to include in sitemaps on new posts (the default setting in setup).

We don’t use W3TC but we do use WP Super Cache.

Saw the comment about the code to grab circles numbers not working on pages in our email (although it’s not showing here). Just to say that ours is a business page and seems to be pulling numbers properly after the last plugin update (o.7.3).

Good man. That’s fixed the G+ count. No YT count, but maybe we’ll lose that until we can choose to have view instead of subs (5 million looks so much better!).

BTW, is there a quick hack to have a click through open in a new window?

Is that 0.7.2? We installed that this morning but the G+ & YT stats are still zero (we even deleted the cache just to be sure).

Can we give you any info that may help?

Many thanks. We look forward to getting the plugin working properly.

In case anyone else is looking for a solution to this, we’ve found something that works for us:

function canonical() {
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rel_canonical' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'canonical', 99 );