feat: Add canonical=false option to disable canonical URL output#521
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Similar to the existing title=false option, this allows users to disable
the canonical URL output when using other plugins (like jekyll-polyglot)
to generate canonical URLs for multilingual sites.
Usage: {% seo canonical=false %}
This disables the <link rel="canonical"> tag while still outputting
the <meta property="og:url"> tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Instead of trying to exclude canonical URLs from relativization via regex (which was complex and error-prone), recommend using jekyll-seo-tag's new `canonical=false` option combined with Polyglot's I18n_Headers tag. This provides cleaner separation of concerns: - jekyll-seo-tag handles all SEO tags except canonical - Polyglot's I18n_Headers handles canonical and hreflang tags with proper translation detection Changes: - Remove canonical exclusion from absolute_url_regex - Update README to document jekyll-seo-tag integration - Remove test for canonical regex exclusion Related: jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag#521 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@rathboma this looks good. thanks for the contribution! If you could fix up the style guide issues, that would unblock merging this. I've pulled them out of the action to make it easier |
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Summary
Adds a new
canonical=falseoption to disable the<link rel="canonical">tag output, similar to the existingtitle=falseoption.Use Case
When using multilingual plugins like jekyll-polyglot, the canonical URL needs special handling:
By allowing users to disable the canonical output from jekyll-seo-tag, they can use their multilingual plugin's canonical URL generation instead.
Usage
{% seo canonical=false %}This disables only the
<link rel="canonical">tag while still outputting all other SEO tags including<meta property="og:url">.Changes
canonical?method toDropclass (similar totitle?)canonical?methodcanonical=falseTesting
All 222 existing tests pass, plus 5 new tests for the canonical feature.
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