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add option to set a custom canonical url #816

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@FarisZR FarisZR commented May 1, 2023

This is a small pr to add an option set a custom canonical URL.
Useful when cross posting personal posts from forums and so on.

I can open another PR to update the docs repo if this is accepted.

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https://blog.concannon.tech/tech-talk/hugo-canonical-url/

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Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the PR!

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
{{- $title := partialCached "data/title" . .RelPermalink -}}
<title>{{ $title }}</title>

<link rel='canonical' href='{{ .Permalink }}'>
{{ if .Params.canonicalurl }}
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ .Params.canonicalurl }}">
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What if we use just canonical for the field name? I think it would be simpler. What do you think?

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i think its normally called canonical url, in medium and other platforms

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