If you're running the vBSEO Sitemap Generator:

Thank you cellarius!

This is a very nice and easy fix to one of the worst issues with PP that they will never fix. Marked installed.

I have one question/request though. I have the spider-friendly URLs on, but I used to have a sitemap generator that produced the sitemap with the standard URLs (showphoto.php?photo=XXX). As a result, I have a lot of photos indexed with both versions. This plugin as is works with both, which means it will produce a canonical URL for each version. Is there a way to make this check which type of URL is selected in the admin options of PP, and then produce only that format of canonical URL?

For instance, if you have spider friendly URLs active, and a search engine visits a showphoto.php?photo=XXX page, the noindex meta would be inserted along with the canonical URL as showphoto.php/photo/XXX ? That would be excellent if its possible. Either way, you've managed to do more than PP has for years with this one little plugin.

Hi cellarius
sorry for my dumb arse question but would this work for Vbgallery (made by photopost)
i know it says photopost pro just trying my luck here ;)

Cheers

That would be possible, but for your problem I'd say it would be the wrong path. In your place, I'd decide which URL I want to use, and then implement a 301-redirect via htaccess to redirect the other. This way, you get the "wrong" URLs out of the search engines.

Cool, thanks. Is there any way to check if this works after we install it, and somehow check the results after a few days/weeks on google somehow?

Of course. Just check the html source code in your browser. The meta tag will be visible there.
Use Google Webmaster tools. There you can get information on how many and which pages are listed in the Google index.

As you said: Photopost Pro, not vBG.

I actually tried that before, but I couldn't come up with any redirect rules that would accomplish it.

Have to uninstall this because of this issue.

Any idea what causes this error?