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  • April 11, 2017 at 5:18 pm #776201
    mikejohnsimports

    Dear the supporting team,
    I am encountering a problem of having no way to remove the “home” extension from the permalink of the front page. For example, instead of being http://www.domainname.com/ (as it usually is on other themes), it is now http://www.domainname.com/home (Enfold theme). I set the frontpage from Enfold>Front page setting and did not do anything with Setting>Reading. Could you please tell me a way to get rid of this inconvenience?
    Best Regards

    April 11, 2017 at 5:36 pm #776209
    Jordan Shannon

    Hey mikejohnsimports,

    Please try using the following plugin which can target individual pages:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

    Best regards,
    Jordan Shannon

    April 11, 2017 at 5:48 pm #776212
    mikejohnsimports

    Hi Jordan,
    Thank you so much for giving the solution. However, is there any other solution that I dont need to install a plugin on my wordpress site and that I just modify something with enfold theme?
    Best Regards.

    April 11, 2017 at 5:52 pm #776214
    mikejohnsimports

    Hi Jordan,
    I think I found a way to change it in another post months ago. Thank you for your support

    April 11, 2017 at 5:57 pm #776217
    Guenni007

    hm – can not confirm this.
    All my installations link to the source url.

    Please go to your Menus and on your home or start or whatever on the right side of each menu point there is a little dropdown arrow – press it
    than you can see something like this:

    What is there on your installation on url – here on example “Monster link”
    and by the way on home there should be no url.

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    March 12, 2021 at 7:12 pm #1287844
    fecanimedia

    I feel the need of opening this thread again since I am facing the same issue as the thread creator. So, I guess either Enfold or WordPress adds a path to the URL of my homepage so that it says “https://www.example.com/home&#8221;. On top of that, it adds “<link rel=’canonical’ href=’https://www.example.com/home’>&#8221; to that single page, giving me an SEO error since there’s no “/home” page in my sitemap.

    First and foremost, I need to remove the canonical from that page. But I guess I would need to remove the “/home” from the homepage URL also.

    I am using the latest version of WordPress, Enfold and all other plugins. I do use Yoast as a SEO plugin but there are no settings added by me or the plugin that would give this effect.

    March 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm #1288494
    Rikard

    Hi fecanimedia,

    You can change the canonical URL for the page in question, in the Advanced Options in Yoast: https://imgur.com/a/B8ksiPB

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 23, 2021 at 11:05 am #1289817
    fecanimedia

    Please elaborate how that would help me. I want https://www.example.com to be the preferred URL, not https://www.example.com/home. I get that adding the canonical URL on /home could help me, but I don’t understand why I _need_ to do this. I guess it has to do with how Enfold works? Furthermore, this will not help me in this case since the theme has added “<link rel=’canonical’ href=’https://www.example.com/home’>&#8221; to my https://www.example.com page.

    March 26, 2021 at 7:45 am #1290488
    Rikard

    Hi fecanimedia,

    It’s how WordPress works. Every page needs to have a slug, like home in your example. But if that page is set as the home page, the URL will never show the actual slug. The slug, or permalink, still remains the same though. I’m not an SEO expert, and I don’t know why this is an “error”. You might be better off asking the same question on general WordPress help forum.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 26, 2021 at 7:55 am #1290489
    Rikard

    Hi again fecanimedia,

    I might have spoken too soon, since I tried to reproduce what you describing on a local and test installation, but I can’t see it happening on either installation. I’m guessing that it can be a local setting on your site. Please check the URL in private.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    November 21, 2023 at 12:15 pm #1426146
    pipeandpiper

    I have this exact same issue, I have a domain with mydomain.com/home in the URL and it doesnt exist in the sitemap. I’m not sure if this is to do with a custom permalink structure.

    I have /insights/%postname%/ set for custom urls for our news pages.

    setting the canonical in yoast will only give me /home in the URL

    November 21, 2023 at 12:20 pm #1426149
    pipeandpiper

    My apologies now I have set my canonical URL to mydomain.com it has removed the /home. In the canonical URL previewer for some reason it was showing mydomain.com/https://mydomain.com but it appears to have dissapeared

    November 21, 2023 at 1:42 pm #1426165
    Rikard

    Hi pipeandpiper,

    If you need any further help with your problem, then please open a new thread and include WordPress admin login details in private, so that we can have a closer look at your site.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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