My newest stumbling block?next & previous

[darnoldy]

Okay... so I want to put rel = next and rel=prev link tags into the head of pages that need them. "easy peasy," says I... the logic and links to those pages is already there in the pagenav template.

So, I copied out the pagenav template and, form what it contained, built this:

  <if condition="$show['prev']">
    <link rel="prev" href="$address$address2<if condition="$prevpage != 1">&amp;page=$prevpage</if><if condition="$anchor">#$anchor</if>">
  </if>
 <if condition="$show['next']">
    <link rel="next" href="$address$address2&amp;page=$nextpage<if condition="$anchor">#$anchor</if>">
  </if>

Which I then pasted into the head of the forumdisplay template.

"Done and dusted," says I, smuggly! But alas, it doesn't work.

$address
$address2
$prevpage
$nextpage

are empty!

It seems as though those values aren't fetched until $pagenav is called later in the template. Is this a job for a plugin?

--don

[Lynne]

If the variables are not available to that template, then yes, it is a job for a plugin.

[kh99]

Someone else just asked about that, at least for the showthread page. The plugin code is at the end of this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=306081

I was thinking about turning this in to a mod and releasing it, but to be honest, after reading the google page on what the prev and next tags do, it didn't sound like it would be appropriate for a thread. I could be wrong because I don't know anything about search engine stuff, but that page kept mentioning that it would use those to direct users to the first page, and that didn't sound like a good idea, especially for a long thread. I suppose it depends on the content.

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by kh99

Someone else just asked about that...

Thanks! I don't know how I missed/forgot about that?its exactly what I want.

I could be wrong because I don't know anything about search engine stuff, but that page kept mentioning that it would use those to direct users to the first page...

As I understand it, it would direct search engine users to the first page. It also tells the search engine that all X pages are part of the same item and all of the terms on any of the pages should be used to index the whole thread. I think that's good.