From 739499b106513c919ddc96726763fe92bcb2196e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David G. Simmons" <santafen@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:59:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for canonical links

Add a `relcanonical: <URL>` item to the frontmatter and this will then make sure that the `<link rel="canonical" >` value is set properly.
---
 layouts/_default/baseof.html         | 4 +++-
 layouts/partials/misc/canoncial.html | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 layouts/partials/misc/canoncial.html

diff --git a/layouts/_default/baseof.html b/layouts/_default/baseof.html
index dc1850a..6798adb 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/baseof.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/baseof.html
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
     {{ template "_internal/twitter_cards.html" . }}
     <!------ ADD PAGE SPECIFIC HEADERS ------->
     {{ block "header" . }} {{ end }}
-
+    {{ with .Params.relcanonical }}
+      {{ partial "misc/canonical.html" . }}
+    {{ end }}
     <!--================= add analytics if enabled =========================-->
     {{- partial "analytics.html" . -}}
     <script>
diff --git a/layouts/partials/misc/canoncial.html b/layouts/partials/misc/canoncial.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c676f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/partials/misc/canoncial.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<link rel="canonical" href="{{ . | relLangURL }}" itemprop="url" />