Paginated Post & Preferred Index (rel="canonical")

I came across this post from the official Google Webmaster central blog about the preferred index page in a paginated post:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html

WordPress SEO plugin works excellent in all areas, but it doesn’t set the preferred index page in the rel="canonical" tags of the paginated contents.

For example, I have a post example.com/post/ which is paginated (by making use of <!--nextpage--> utility tag), and contains 3 pages. The plugin doesn’t provide any option to set page numbers to the title tags of the paged post pages (like example.com/post/1/ etc.). Also, it sets the paged URLs as the rel="canonical" value in the paginated post pages, where it should set the preferred index page (example.com/post/) as the canonical URL, as guided by Google in the blog post I mentioned in the beginning.

Its a humble request to the author to correct this mistake.

Thanks,
Rahul

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/