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1. gerobe
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   The plugin also tries to shorten the canonical tag (e.g. inserted with plugins like WP SEO), which results in a wrong canonical syntax.

   Without "Absolute-to-Relative URLs" the tag looks like

   <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.nameofwebsite.com/post_slug/" />

   when enabling the plugin and also the plugin wp-minify this tag is destroyed into

   <link rel="canonical" href="./" />

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/absolute-to-relative-urls/

2. Steven Vachon
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   This is more an issue for WP-HTML-Compression, but anyway..

   Canonical URLs can be relative:
   http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
   (scroll down a bit, or do a search for "relative")

   But, yes, they do recommend making them absolute to avoid "difficulties". So, I'll add this to the next version of WP-HTML-Compression.

   Thank you

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