[Craig]

I have listings with clickable cities and zip codes, and they work with no issues, but when there are multiple pages for a result the URL for extended pages adds unnecessary extra info into the URL, causing duplicate entries to be created and spidered by search engines.

For example:

If I click the city link to sort, if there are multiple pages, the first shows as /city/Raleigh/

But subsequent links give the following URL:
/city/Raleigh/pg/2/?cn-locality=Raleigh
/city/Raleigh/pg/3/?cn-locality=Raleigh

These links function correctly if shortened to simply
/city/Raleigh/pg/2/
/city/Raleigh/pg/3/

But as the links are generated with the extra info, they get spidered that way by search engines. Is there a simple way to correct the URLs?

Thanks,
Craig

[Craig]

One additional note. The plugin creates duplicate pages for all multipage queries.

Any page that has multiple pages will have the following 2 pages created:
/city/Raleigh/
/city/Raleigh/pg/1/

Both are the same page, which can cause headaches with search engines which will see these pages as duplicate content.

[Craig]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

Not a pain at all! It seems I broke something along the way when navigating from a Connections category link to a template which uses query vars for navigation. Ironically, I think it was when I converted the pagination links to be pretty permalinks instead of query vars (for better seo). I don’t recall testing from a Connections category permalink. I think I know exactly where the issue lies …. fixing it will present a challenge.

The pagination code is up for a rewrite on the next major release. And now with this has become number one priority for that release. I’ll get on this ASAP and see if I can’t roll this into a bugfix release rather than waiting for the next major release.

I’ll get back to you as soon as I have a working solution… Actually would you be willing to let me test on your site? Also, what tool are you using to crawl your site.

[Craig]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

I developed a snippet for another user that may help with this issue a little.

Install the Code Snippets plugin and add the following code as a new snippet.

add_action( 'wp', 'cn_search_category_reset' );

function cn_search_category_reset() {
	global $wp_rewrite, $post;
	
	$keywords     = get_query_var( 'cn-s' );
	$categoryIDs  = get_query_var( 'cn-cat' );
	$categorySlug = get_query_var( 'cn-cat-slug' );
	
	if ( ! empty( $keywords ) && ( ! empty( $categoryIDs ) || ! empty( $categorySlug ) ) ) {
		
		cnSEO::doFilterPermalink( FALSE );
		
		// Get the directory home page ID.
		$homeID = cnSettingsAPI::get( 'connections', 'connections_home_page', 'page_id' );
		
		$permalink = $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ? trailingslashit( get_permalink( $homeID ) ) : get_permalink( $homeID );
		
		wp_redirect( add_query_arg( array( 'cn-s' => $keywords, 'cn-cat' => FALSE, 'cn-cat-slug' => FALSE ), $permalink ) );
		
		exit;
	
	} elseif ( ! empty( $categoryIDs ) && ! empty( $categorySlug ) ) {
		
		cnSEO::doFilterPermalink( FALSE );
		
		// Get the directory home page ID.
		$homeID = cnSettingsAPI::get( 'connections', 'connections_home_page', 'page_id' );
		
		$permalink = $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ? trailingslashit( get_permalink( $homeID ) ) : get_permalink( $homeID );
		
		wp_redirect( add_query_arg( array( 'cn-cat' => $categoryIDs, 'cn-cat-slug' => FALSE ), $permalink ) );
		
		exit;
	}
	
}

I will not do much about the pagination links but it should help clear up the issue of clicking the category link in the sidebar and then changing the category in the drop down… in case you would like to use that again.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

Oh, thanks for sharing the tool you use. I’ll have to shop around and see if I can find one for myself. I think running it on my site will help me catch these errors in the future.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

I’ve eliminated the bug with paginations reported in this comment. You’ll no longer have multiple pages for page 1 when there are multiple pages of entries.

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