Does Plugin System-SEF work for rel=canonical ?

[nfleming]

Hi,
I have a question regarding insertion of rel=canonical links. Can this be done in Joomla 3.8.5 by simply inserting the site URL into the System-SEF plugin and enabling it?

It seems that it is supposed to be included in Joomla3 core, but I have read in old posts (https://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/canonical/ ) that there is/was problems with the core and it shouldn't be used due to it not working correctly and causing more issues than it fixes.

Does anyone use it? Does it work, or is the best idea still to use "Styleware Content Canonical Plugin" ?

Thanks
Nicola

[gws]

It has worked satisfactory for me by putting the url in.

[VITSPL]

You can now choose which one would be the nicest one to appear in the search results (obviouslky the first one). This happens by adding the following piece of code in your source code:

<link href="http://......com/blogl" rel="canonical" />

OR

You can unset the canonical tag in your template's index.php file using the following code -
$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
foreach ( $doc->_links as $k => $array ) {
if ( $array['relation'] == 'canonical' ) {
unset($doc->_links[$k]);
}
}