Comments on: RevCanonical 1.2, Customise your link tag plus a little more

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:57:06 +0000

Duncan,

Thanks for the update! Works great!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:15:34 +0000

@tom, Thanks for your comment. I posted a new version of the plugin this morning as I found a fix for your problem. I’m don’t I’ll ever fix all url/setup combinations out there but there you go. Sorry for the delay, but this plugin is not high on my maintain list at the moment.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:18:05 +0000

Duncan,

GREAT plugin … too many of the short url plugins add a bunch of stuff we don’t need when all we want is a short url.

I do have one problem. Once installed, the plugin broke my date archives. For instance, when someone called up http://www.mysite.com/2009/11/12/ (which should show the posts for Nov. 12, 2009) it redirects to the About page.

Any suggestions?

By: Sam J

Sam J — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:29:47 +0000

rev=canonical has been widely criticised by many, perhaps most notably (and comprehensively) by Mark Nottingham in Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web. Perhaps you would consider contributing to/merging with the shortlink Wordpress plugin now that WordPress.com has rolled out this feature? Sam

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:07:11 +0000

Some possible assistance to some people getting 404 pages when trying the canonical link.

On my server running IIS 6.0 on Win2003 I too was getting 404 errors. However they were not the WordPress 404′s, instead they were the 404 pages supplied by IIS.

Configuring WP to use custom 404′s (whether they work or not) got past IIS intercepting the redirects and allowed the revcanonical redirect function to be called.

This may not help with everyone, but if you do see the 404 page issue, try configuring custom 404 pages for your WP theme to see if that is of any help. Google has many references to custom 404 pages for WordPress.

In my IIS setup this meant changing the 404 error handling in the IIS console from default to /index.php?error=404 then editing the 404.php file in the theme edit section.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:33:11 +0000

Just to let you know that I am aware of the documentation error and have updated it ready to deploy. Before I do though I’d quite like to fix the 404 problem some people are having. If anyone is willing to run some test code on their sites so I can hunt down the problem, please let me know.

By: Daniel Matthews

Daniel Matthews — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:34:54 +0000

Yeah, i get the same problem when trying to print the URL to the page, it says i called for an undefined function.

This is by far the best rev=”canonical” plugin i’ve found, i hope you can find the time to work out the bugs

Also, are there any instructions anywhere of how to set up another domain name? so that, for example, i can show the link as: “http://dan-m.com/pfh” on screen, at the bottom of an article. And it will automatically redirect to the article.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:57:44 +0000

@Juergen, yeah, sorry about this. The new version fixed one persons problem but broke others. I think I’m gonna revert the plugin to the last version. I need someone to run some debug code on their machine so I can see why it’s broken, would you be up for this?

By: Juergen Schulze

Juergen Schulze — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:18:47 +0000

Hello,
first: thanks
second: doesn’t work with me. I still get an 404 when using one of the generated links

Bugs: Documentation:
ID) ?> ===> Echo the shorturl to the screen

ID) ?> ===> Assign the shorturl to a variable

The functions you use are indeed
revcanonical_link and get_revcanonical_link

But I still can’t use the generated link.
Did I miss something?

Juergen