Settings for standalone 100% AMP site (no desktop version)?

A valid AMP page needs a canonical url or it will not be valid. AMP is meant for mobiles. As an aside, google decides whether to present an AMP page in its search index or not. One of the things it looks at it is whether your AMP version is a representation of its canonical equivalent.

What you appear to be saying is you like the simplicity of AMP. In that case just keep your canonical version nice and simple too. Your canonical and AMP versions will then be pretty much identical.

Thank you frenchomatic!

Google says here:
It is possible to create a standalone AMP page, which is a page that doesn’t have a canonical. In this scenario, the canonical link is still required, but should point to the AMP article itself.

The The AMP Project website itself has no caonical urls.

You can read about the standalone-mode of an another AMP plugin here and see a demo here.

I could mantain alongside the light AMP version of my website a heavier (and different looking) canonical version, but it would be much more efficient to have a standalone AMP website.

As I understand the solution requires two things:
1. Do not append /amp to the URLs of the AMP pages.
2. Add a canonical link to the head of each AMP page pointing to itself

However I’m not a geek and I don’t know how to proceed…

Yes you can do that but I don’t see the point. If you are keeping your normal wordpress pages simple then you only have one version to maintain. If you are using a caching plugin and something like cloudflare then you are not going to get a big speed advantage.

Yes I suppose that the look between the two versions will be marginally different but that is all. I don’t think it is a big deal per se.

I don’t understand why you are having to maintain two versions unless you are redesigning your AMP versions in a very different way to their canonical equivalents.

I have 25 AMP sites and on every one of them I think that I have only one page where the AMP version is markedly different in look/feel (i.e. the home page includes widgets and some stuff that the AMP version can’t use).

Thanks! Probably I’ll proceed as you described, at least so far I cannot use a standalone only-AMP version.

As the AMP version has everything I need the standalone only-AMP option would be better for me.

However I understand that your solution is working perfectly and is also the most adopted nowdays (and also the only possible way to include non AMP compatible widgets). Just it is more difficult for my case because I need to tweak or change my present canonical theme to match look/feel of an AMP version.

This wonderful plugin is developed very fast and it’s offering many new options.

I’m wondering again if any new option or workaround is making possible now to go always redirected to AMP, without using at all the desktop version?

Maybe it’s already possible, I’ve just not noticed/discovered it among the many new functions..