Canonical Home page link wrong

I’m looking into this. Thanks!

It will be fixed in the next release.

OK.. What would the time frame be on the “next” release?

End of next week. Are you comfortable with editing code? I have quick fix that may work for you.

Yes I can edit code, as long as I’m given the right instruction etc ??

Line 61/62 of app/Admin/Header.php move

$sseo_canonical_url = null;

To line 42 above:

if (is_front_page() && is_home()) { /* Default Homepage */

You want that first if statement to basically look like this:

$sseo_canonical_url = null;
if (is_front_page() && is_home()) { /* Default Homepage */
    $description = get_option('sseo_default_meta_description');
    $keywords = get_option('sseo_default_meta_keywords');
    $sseo_canonical_url = get_home_url(); /* set canonical url to homepage */
} elseif (is_home()) { /* Blog Page */

Let me know if that works. It should, its what I have set for the new release, along with other things.

Thank you David, I will add this now, and return in 30min or so to provide an update.

It happens to the best of us… I’m checking that you meant:

app/Admin/Meta/Header.php

not: app/Admin/ (there’s not Header.php there)

Correct.

$sseo_canonical_url = null;
if (is_front_page() && is_home()) { /* Default Homepage / $description = get_option('sseo_default_meta_description'); $keywords = get_option('sseo_default_meta_keywords'); } elseif (is_home()) { / Blog Page */

Added as instructed… Have doubled checked and $sseo code line removed fom original position, and inserted as above.

Hasn’t made any change. However, I’ve got some ISP cache issue that’s driving me nuts, over last few days. F5 refresh, clear DNS cache, change dsn servers, nothing fixes the issue.

I”ll give it an hour or so and report back then.

Cheers

Please excuse the typos. It’s just gone 4am Friday.

If your using Chrome you can open developer tools, then right click the refresh button and choose “empty cache and hard reload”, doing it in an incognito window might help as well.

Resetting your router to obtain a new DNS may help also.

I have a dedi IP from my ISP – great for lots of reasons, all except, it seems, now.

The other possibility…
Have a managed VPS, and 5 or so days ago they updated to the latest Litespeed version. Previous to this, no cache issues. I’ve submitted a support ticket. Maybe something server sided is causing this.

According to support, they’ve gone ahead and updated litespeed web server to: (6.3.1 (build 5)). In addition, have flushed any caches and whatnot. So that should be all good, now.

Decided to disconnect from ISP, and reconnected to my mobile’s Hotspot. Well, that didn’t change anything, the Home page Canonical is still pointing to the last blog post.

<link rel="canonical" href="https://blog.doch.fyi/online-gambling-industry/igaming-affiliates-fair-treatment/" /><!-- / Simple SEO plugin. -->

Okay, still looking into it.