Plugin Author
bit.ly
(@bitly-1)
The plugin overrides the get_permalink() function so that it can be used with a wide variety of social sharing tools. We will remove conflicts with other plugins as we push out new versions.
Thread Starter
nr56
(@nr56)
I’m not sure it’s fair to mark this issue as “Resolved” on the promise that a future update will fix the error…especially when updates to this plugin have been few and far between…
Why on Earth has this been marked as resolved..? A promise to fix something is not the same as fixing it; as demonstrated by it having been three months since the Bitly staffer posted.
If you look in the bitly.php file around line 90 there begins a series of checks to see if the call for get_permalink originates from certain plugins. You can simply add wordpress-seo to the list to fix the rel=cannonical issue.
At line 118 (after the check for ‘sitemap’ in line 113) I added this code to check to see if the call originates from a directory with the phrase ‘seo’ in it (which would include yoast’s wordpress-seo):
else if (strpos($b['file'],'seo') !== false) // Don't return custom links in yoast seo
{
$plugin_call = false;
break;
}
This tells the bitly plugin to not override the get_permalink() function for wordpress-seo and makes the rel=canonical tag work properly again.
Thanks bswen ! I’ll try this in the coming days. A bit sad that all my SEO efforts have been compromised and now Google only index my bit.ly custom domain….
Got feedback from Bit.ly
“Hi again,
I wanted to let you know that I chatted with James and that’s a bug that we’re aware of with the plugin but it’s not on the immediate roadmap to be fixed in the near future. I’m sorry I couldn’t be more helpful! I really wish there was more I could do. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Best,
Samantha”
So basically it’s “we know we offer a broken plugin, we have no intention of fixing it. We didn’t remove it from the repository cause we like to [removed] people’s websites up. Have a nice day.”
The bit.ly plugin is not only conflicting with Yoast but also with Jetpack and Publicize. Best way to deal with that is to uninstall bit.ly.
I tried this for ‘sociable’ (the sociable plugin) also because all of my likes for facebook and g+ disappeared now that the buttons are linked to the bitly shortlink.
Any suggestions on how to correct this issue see its source is very similar?
Got it. I had to deactivate both plugins then activate starting with bitly. Works great! Even works with my post navigation. Thanks bswen!
