Opened 21 months ago
Last modified 6 months ago
#18672 new enhancement
Implement rel="prev" and rel="next" for archives
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Awaiting Review |
| Component: | Permalinks | Version: | 3.3 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | needs-patch 2nd-opinion |
| Cc: | djpaul@…, 24-7@…, mcepl |
Description
As can be seen here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
Google now uses rel="prev" and rel="next" to navigate paginated archives. As we already do a lot of these types of links (rel="index", rel="start" etc.) I think we should add these. I'll come up with a first version of a patch.
Change History (9)
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joostdevalk — 21 months ago
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joostdevalk — 21 months ago
Should also consider how we use next and prev in relation to posts now. If a post is paginated, according to how Google now treats it, if you're on page 1, next should lead to the 2nd page of that post, and I don't think we do that.
Replying to joostdevalk:
Should also consider how we use next and prev in relation to posts now.
Considering this, shouldn't we remove next and prev altogether from singular pages, and keep them only for "real" pagination, such as the archive pages?
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F J Kaiser — 20 months ago
- Cc 24-7@… added
I added this to my example pagination plugin some time ago. Point is that I added it to the link itself. What would be the reason to add another function and add it to the head?
Replying to F J Kaiser:
Point is that I added it to the link itself. What would be the reason to add another function and add it to the head?
Google seems to prefer the link added to the head, rather than on the link itself. Here is what they say in their annoucement:
rel=”next” and rel=”prev” only need to be declared within the <head> section, not within the document <body>.
1+ , I fix this in my framework theme , I will send a PATCH soon .
Related to #18128, should probably fix in one pass.