Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#47025 closed defect (bug) (invalid)
Adding canonical tag feature
| Reported by: |
haseeb007
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Owned by: | |
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 5.2 |
| Component: | TinyMCE | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Hello, I still use the classic editor in WordPress. While adding a hyperlink to text in post editor, the options that we get are only the link field and a check box for opening the link into a new tab. There should be one more option for adding a canonical tag. Currently, what I have to do is going to the text window and type rel=canonical manually.
Please add this feature.
Change History (2)
#1
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5 years ago
- Component changed from General to TinyMCE
- Keywords close added
- Severity changed from major to normal
#2
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5 years ago
- Keywords close removed
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
Hi @haseeb007,
I just did some research, and it appears that @SergeyBiryukov is correct.
rel="canonical" is only allowed as an attribute of the <link> tag, which is only allowed within the <head> tag (unless the type is body-ok, which canonical is not). Search engines have also been known to ignore any rel="canonical" attributes found within the <body> tag.
If this is no longer correct and you can provide some references demonstrating, this can be reopened and reevaluated!
Hi @haseeb007, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the ticket.
Unless I'm missing something,
<link rel="canonical">should only be used in the<head>section, not in the content area, so an option for adding a canonical tag does not belong in the content editor.