List hexo-canonical-link plugin

[tarunbatra]

Plugin to add canonical links for pages. By default, the url of the page will be set as canonical link. Other urls can be set by mentioning canonical_url in frontmatter of the page. Useful for SEO.

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• I want to publish my theme on Hexo official website.
  • I have read the theme publishing doc.
  • link URL is correct.
  • preview URL is correct.
  • preview URL web site is rendered correctly.
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  • Screenshot filename is same as value of name.
  • Screenshot size is 800 * 500.
  • Screenshot file format is png.
• I want to publish my plugin on Hexo official website.
  • I have read the plugin publishing doc.
  • link URL is correct.
• Others (Update, fix, translation, etc...)

[SukkaW]

It seems that the plugin is duplicated with hexojs/hexo#3701

[tarunbatra]

@SukkaW yeah seems like that PR covers the scope of this plugin and that of hexo-auto-canonical.

[curbengh]

Does your plugin offer any enhancement compared to hexo-auto-canonical?

[tarunbatra]

Yes @curbengh, hexo-aut-canonical doesn't work for external urls and hence is opinionated. This plugin is general in nature and works for any url. I'm using this plugin to generate canonical link as seen in this page.

[curbengh]

hexo-auto-canonical doesn't work for external urls and hence is opinionated. This plugin is general in nature and works for any url.

hexo-canonical-link readme mentions

By default, the url of the page will be set as canonical link

I assume page means the user's webpage, so is there a need to work with external urls? My understanding is that canonical meta tag is to inform the search engine which specific link (of a user's webpage) should be considered as the canonical one, so external url seems to be irrelevant, no?

Can you give a specific example where hexo-canonical-link works better?

[tarunbatra]

It is useful in cases where a blog post is a cross posted on multiple sites (medium, dev.to, etc.) and also on your personal site. With this plugin you can link to your medium blog and not confuse Google's algo.

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 05:42, curbengh ***@***.***> wrote: hexo-auto-canonical doesn't work for external urls and hence is opinionated. This plugin is general in nature and works for any url. hexo-canonical-link readme mentions By default, the url of the page will be set as canonical link I assume page means the user's webpage, so is there a need to work with external urls? My understanding is that canonical meta tag <https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en> is to inform the search engine which specific link (of a user's webpage) should be considered as the canonical one, so external url seems to be irrelevant, no? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1080?email_source=notifications&email_token=ABIVCTRNWFINWVJUATL6R2TQJLLGTA5CNFSM4IU7EUN2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD6TTRNA#issuecomment-531052724>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABIVCTRKWPSMULVLJD72BA3QJLLGTANCNFSM4IU7EUNQ> .

[curbengh]

I see, I just read about cross-domain canonical tag. Can you mention that feature in the description? This is to let user know the difference.

also append your plugin to "plugins.yml", not prepend.

[tarunbatra]

@curbengh made the changes.

[curbengh]

Thanks, I further clarified the description.

Previously,
Set canonical link for pages with support for external links and defaults to the page url.

I don't think defaults to... is necessary for an intro. I added a comma in the middle to clarify that external link support applies to the plugin not the pages.