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New Member | thewebscaper posts 2 6:34 pm November 9, 2009
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Need help quickly, hoping someone might have some insight for me.
My client's site (www.musicafter50.com) is a WordPress v. 2.8.4 site running numerous plugins, including SEO Pack. It's been up for months and working fine. Thanks to SEO pack and Google XML Sitemap plugin, it has been indexed and ranking high in Google for months on relevant searches. Suddenly last week, searches do not return this site anymore at all.
Discovered the problem today, it's a plugin, WP e-commerce shopping cart. (I have posted to their support forum with no response thus far). This plugin is changing the canonical link line that appears in the SEO Pack code. If I disable the plugin, and do a view source check of each page, the canonical URL is what it SHOULD be and varies page by page as it should. As soon as I activate the plugin, the canonical URL on each and every page is identical: http://www.musicafter50.com/pr…..-products/.
As I said, I contacted the plugin's support forum with no response as of yet. We put in many hours of development on the e-store running wp e-commerce. We don't want to just disable it and be done – all that work down the drain. But we cannot keep the store up if the canonical URL on every page is identical. We're up against the wall here and don't know what to do. I have no idea where in the plugin code it's affecting the canonical URL, and would very, very much appreciate if someone can give me some guidance on how to fix this. We are planning on disabling the store tonight if we can't get some advice.
THanks in advance,
Kym
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New Member | danmilward New Zealand posts 2 10:09 pm November 9, 2009
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Hello. Sorry we just havent spotted this one until now.
We'll take a look in the morning and if its a bug we'll fix it :D
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I am the WP e-Commerce Plugin leader. My company Instinct has been contributing to WordPress for over 6 years in one way or another – but we're mostly known for our work making the e-Commerce Plugin, the bestest of the WordPress e-Commerce Plugins. @danmilward
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New Member | thewebscaper posts 2 11:02 pm November 9, 2009
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Hi Dan!
Thank you!! Please be aware, I found a temporary fix for the problem, but it is NOT a long-term solution. But wanted to make you aware, in case you look at my site to see what's happening.
I needed the canonical URLs to go back to showing what SEO Pack had them showing, so in the misc-functions.php file, I found where you added the code to re-write the canonical URLs. I simply added the line: return $url; after the function line, to force it to just return back what it was originally displaying — essentially, I disabled the feature. Again, just a temporary hack to get things to work, without having to remove the store from the site.
If there's anything I can do to help as far as providing more info of what was happening on our site, just let me know. Anything to help make the plugin better.
Kym
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New Member | ThomasHoward posts 1 1:55 pm November 10, 2009
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Hi
I have been doing some testing with this, and I cannot see the problem happen on two sites I tried it on.
They are here http://apps.instinct.co.nz/wp-dev-2.8/ and here http://sandbox.boiling-pukeko……ucts-page/
From looking at the code in question, the only way I can see for it to break in this way is if the WP query values "product_url_name" or "category_id" were set to something not null, but also not valid, on all pages.
This would cause the functions to return the URL to the products page, and nothing else unless either of those two values were set to something valid.
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New Member | leotrocker posts 1 3:43 am December 27, 2009
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Hi There,
Thank you for the post. This is happening with my site (www.childpsychologist.com.au) – quite annoying.
all pages return the same link:
href='http://childpsychologist.com.a…../featured/' /> "
we have tried several things to get this fixed, however, no luck. Have you found a solution?
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New Member | shendison Portland Oregon posts 8 9:16 pm February 12, 2010
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I have the identical problem at a site of mine – REALLY irritating. Disable WP-ecommerce, it's fine, (but cant make any money) – Re-enable, it's back.
Unreal. I found nothing at WP-ecomm site so I came here, but I'll go post there too….
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New Member | shendison Portland Oregon posts 8 9:31 pm February 13, 2010
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Post edited 11:49 pm – February 14, 2010 by shendison
We too found a temporary (apparently) solution at a WP-commerce forum post -
http://getshopped.org/forums/topic.php?id=7602
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New Member | shendison Portland Oregon posts 8 8:49 am March 11, 2010
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OOPS – The "solution" we posted does fix the posts and pages, however, it still leaves incorrect canonical code on the actual cart product pages – This could be pretty damaging to a site….
http://getshopped.org/forums/t…..hp?id=7602
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