WordPress Canonical URL

This plugin is pretty simple. It is designed to redirect any non-standard single-post URIs to the appropriate permalink.

For example, if you were to go to http://isaacschlueter.com/index.php?p=255&page=2, then you’d see a picture of my fiancée and me by some tulips on the Upper West Side. However, you’d also see an ugly URI in your address bar.

With this plugin, you’d be redirected to /2005/06/breanna/2/ instead.

Here’s what to do if you want this:

  1. Get cannonical-url.php.
  2. Upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  3. Activate it in your Plugins page in the backoffice.

Enjoy :)

New Version: 0.3

Version 0.3 is much improved over the earlier release.

  1. Redirection happens on the page_template and single_template filters instead of page_redirect action, so more information is readily available.
  2. Uses the $wp_query object directly instead of relying on the_post(), which can cause screwey things to happen sometimes.
  3. Better checking for where we are when it’s running, so there’s zero chance of affecting feeds, 404, etc.
  4. Less code!
  5. A helpful 301 message in the response body.
  6. Works on Pages, too!
  7. Unfortunately, cannonical canonical is still spelled wrong. :( My bad. I just realized that today, and it would be way too much effort to go through and correct all the postings in various places, set up a redirection to the new URI, etc. On the plus side, I show up first if you search google for “cannonical”.

This is especially nice if you add “shortcut URIs” to your .htaccess file. Here’s what I use:

RewriteRule ^p(ost)?(id)?/?([0-9]+) index.php?p=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^id/?([0-9]+) index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^t(itle)?/(.*) index.php?name=$2 [QSA,L]

That allows me to type /p305 or /title/sidebar-expando/ and have the link redirect to the proper page. This is handy if you know the post-slug or the ID, and want to quickly type it onto a messageboard or something.

13 Responses to “WordPress Canonical URL”

  1. On July 14th, 2006 at 20:26:53, Elena’s Blog » Using a static home page Said:

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  2. On September 12th, 2006 at 05:59:14, Stephane Said:

    Hi,

    Is this working with IIS 6 on win 2003 and WP 2? I tried, but it keeps saying « No input file specified ».

    Thanks for any help,

    Stephane

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