Recently I learned that Discourse serves a totally different application to crawlers, like GoogleBot for example. I learned this when writing a Discourse plugin code to alter the meta <link rel="canonical"> tag based on if the topic was imported from the legacy forum or created new in the Discours…

OK. I finally stopped using this "lame" yml method of removing the canonical link and wrote a simple Discourse plugin for this task: [image] Discourse Plugin: Remove Canonical Links Discourse Plugins Is this the most simple, but useful, Discourse plugin in the world?…

Removing Canonical Link Tags (canonical_link_tag) from Discourse

Discourse Discourse System Administration

Neo August 9, 2020, 4:33am 2

OK. I finally stopped using this "lame" yml method of removing the canonical link and wrote a simple Discourse plugin for this task: