Canonical Link Missing on Front Page

[miqrogroove]

Canonical links are provided for posts, so if someone links to /2012/12/my-post/?whatever then Google will know it is a duplicate of /2012/12/my-post/

But if someone links to /?whatever there is no canonical address.

[miqrogroove]

This is also a problem with the default search path, /?s= where WordPress uses the wrong template and displays the front page instead of the search results page.

[ocean90]

Replying to miqrogroove:

This is also a problem with the default search path, /?s= where WordPress uses the wrong template and displays the front page instead of the search results page.

#11330

[onetarek]

Related to Ticket #23060

[NickDuncan]

I have tested this on 4.4-alpha-33636-src with post name permalinks and even if you use
/post-1/?variable=anything
the canonical link still points to the parent URL of
/post-1/

[SergeyBiryukov]

@NickDuncan: Thanks for testing, but it looks like the ticket is about missing canonical link on front page, not on a post.

On the other hand, the current implementation was specifically introduced for singular pages, see [11777].

[iworks]

Patch contains:

• canonical for home/front_page
• canonical for search result

I'm not sure we should add canonical url for taxonomies. If yes, give me a sing and I add this.