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Hi,
I have duplicate content with two different URLs. The duplication of the content occurred by accident when I modified the url pagination (category) after the post was published. Now, I have the original post B indexed and post A indexed (post A = the up-to-date post that I can access through WordPress).
Your Rankmath tool helped me add a rel=canonical tag to post A. However, I also want to add a rel=canonical tag to post B, pointing to post A.
How do I do that if I can’t access the URL through the WordPress > Posts section (its not there because I updated it)?
Does your tool have the ability to do this?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Could you please share the affected/duplicate URL so we can check as well? You can add it in the sensitive data section
It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.
Meanwhile, you can use and modify this filter on your site to set the canonical URL:
/** * Allow changing of the canonical URL. * * @param string $canonical The canonical URL. */ add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $canonical ) { return $canonical; });The filter should be added to your active theme’s functions.php file. Here’s another way to apply the filter using the rankmath.php file:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#adding-filters-and-hooks-in-rank-math-phpLet us know how this goes.
Thank you.
Hello,
You don’t have to add canonical to the URLs you shared since they are already been redirected.
If those URLs are still indexed on the search engine, the best you can do is to allow Google to recrawl your website and all the traffic and ranking from that old URL will be transferred to the new one. Kindly give it some time for Google to recrawl the URLs to see if the error goes away in the Google Search Console.
As for the issue with your plugin not updating, can you please check if there are any error messages shown when attempting to update?
To update the plugin automatically, enable auto-updates by going to WordPress dashboard > Rank Math > Status & Tools > Version Control > Auto-Update: https://rankmath.com/kb/version-control/#auto-update
Looking forward to helping you.
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