I have a unique kind of question that I've been wrapping my brain around. Google is penalizing us with duplicate content because you can access our single blog posts both by going to:
as well as :
The option we really want is:
and if a user or googlebot happens to goto:
redirect them to:
I know this is a particular situation, but we have many custom post types in our system. So our structure looks like this.
Ideally, what I would like to do is find some kind of filter that logically checks if the post_type is post and redirect:
to
I tried modifying the register_post_type for the post object, and adding with_front => false and adding blog to the slug, but that doesn't work.
I was able to add /blog/%postname%/ to the permalink structure, and I was successfully able to have a decent structure going that was working, but I got stuck on the taxonomies. When I went to a taxonomy page, I had to goto:
and:
was giving me a 404. So even if I can find a way to make the taxonomies work to where I can do:
that would be awesome! As another side note, I also added with_front to the register_taxonomy, but that was not doing anything either. I even hard flushed the rewrites on all the changes I did.
I know this is a lot, but my brain cannot go any further.. lol
TIA!
Any insight on this?
I have a unique kind of question that I've been wrapping my brain around. Google is penalizing us with duplicate content because you can access our single blog posts both by going to:
http://www.domain/blog/the-post-slug
as well as :
http://www.domain/the-post-slug
The option we really want is:
http://www.domain/blog/the-post-slug
and if a user or googlebot happens to goto:
http://www.domain/the-post-slug
redirect them to:
http://www.domain/blog/the-post-slug
I know this is a particular situation, but we have many custom post types in our system. So our structure looks like this.
http://www.domain/food/pizza
http://www.domain/ice-cream/strawberry
http://www.domain/fireworks/bottle-rockets
Ideally, what I would like to do is find some kind of filter that logically checks if the post_type is post and redirect:
http://www.domain/the-post-slug
to
http://www.domain/blog/post-slug
I tried modifying the register_post_type for the post object, and adding with_front => false and adding blog to the slug, but that doesn't work.
I was able to add /blog/%postname%/ to the permalink structure, and I was successfully able to have a decent structure going that was working, but I got stuck on the taxonomies. When I went to a taxonomy page, I had to goto:
http://www.domain/blog/the-taxonomy/flavors
and:
http://www.domain/the-taxonomy/flavors
was giving me a 404. So even if I can find a way to make the taxonomies work to where I can do:
http://www.domain/the-taxonomy/flavors
that would be awesome! As another side note, I also added with_front to the register_taxonomy, but that was not doing anything either. I even hard flushed the rewrites on all the changes I did.
I know this is a lot, but my brain cannot go any further.. lol
TIA!
Any insight on this?
Share Improve this question asked Nov 8, 2013 at 22:01 Aaron OlinAaron Olin 1811 silver badge3 bronze badges 1 |1 Answer
Reset to default 3First of all set your permalink structure to /%postname%
.
After that add a rewrite rule to rewrite all request like example/blog/postname
to the appropriate query:
add_action('init', 'blog_front');
function blog_front() {
add_rewrite_rule('^blog/([^/]+)/?','index.php?name=$matches[1]','top');
}
Now you have to prevent the duplicate url, sending a 301 redirect when example/postname
is requested:
add_action('template_redirect', 'say_hello_to_google');
function say_hello_to_google() {
if ( is_main_query() && is_single() && ( empty( get_post_type() ) || (get_post_type() === 'post') ) ) {
if ( strpos( trim( add_query_arg( array() ), '/' ), 'blog' ) !== 0 ) {
global $post;
$url = str_replace( $post->post_name, 'blog/' . $post->post_name, get_permalink( $post ) );
wp_safe_redirect( $url, 301 );
exit();
}
}
}
Finally you have to create permalink for your post with 'blog/' in front:
add_filter('the_permalink', 'post_permalink_w_blog');
function post_permalink_w_blog( $link ) {
global $post;
if ( $post->post_type === 'post' ) {
$link = str_replace( $post->post_name, 'blog/' . $post->post_name, get_permalink( $post ) );
}
return $link;
}
Last thing to is flush rewrite rules and... test.
Edit
As @Milo pointed out in comments, all of this can be avoided by setting permalink structure to /blog/%postname%
and then use the param 'rewrite'
having 'with_front'
to false
for all CPTs and all taxonomies.
'rewrite' => array( 'with_front' => false )
The problem is that most times, in a average WP install with a lot of CPT and taxonomies, there are chances that some of them are registred via 3rd party plugins...
in that case if that plugins register the CPTs/taxonomies not using 'with_front' => false
it's a problem and the solution posted above is the last chance.
In addiction I have to say that standard categories and tags are registered with 'with_front' = true, so using this alternative method also standard category and tag must be re-registered with with_front
param setted to false
.
'rewrite' => array( 'with_front' => false )
is your answer, add your taxonomy registration code to your question if it's not working for you. – Milo Commented Nov 8, 2013 at 22:22