<link rel="canonical"> for paged static front-page is wrong

[chesio]

Hello,

I have a website with custom paging on my static front-page. I use page slug to handle paging, because without the slug I get 404 error, but I noticed that there is no slug present in <link rel="canonical"> URL generated by WordPress.

For example: Page at http://example.com/page/2/ has <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/2/" />, but as said above, http://example.com/2/ serves a 404 page.

[joostdevalk]

I'm working on separating out the canonical code from Yoast SEO, which fixes this amongst many other edge cases.

In general though, if the page serves a 404, the canonical doesn't matter at all.

[chesio]

Replying to joostdevalk:

I'm working on separating out the canonical code from Yoast SEO, which fixes this amongst many other edge cases.

That's a great news, thank you! Btw. are you also aware of this edge case: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28081#comment:27 ?

[chesio]

I would suggest to close this ticket in favour of #49220 which has more detailed information.

[JeffPaul]

Duplicate of #49220.

[joostdevalk]

Technically, the other is a duplicate of this 😉

[JeffPaul]

Sure, though I felt the other issue had more details to help nudge the issue along thus chosing this as the dupe :shrug: