Introduction

FMEextensions offers a Magento 2 Canonical URL Extension designed to help prevent duplicate content issues by generating canonical URLs for Magento store pages. This extension allows you to manage canonical tags for products, categories, and CMS pages, helping search engines understand the preferred version of your content.

Key Features

• Automatically adds canonical tags to product, category, and CMS pages
• Customization options for setting specific canonical URLs for individual pages
• Helps prevent duplicate content issues and improves SEO ranking
• Flexible settings to include or exclude canonical tags on paginated and layered navigation pages

Compatibility

This extension is compatible with the following Magento versions.

• 2.1.x
• 2.2.x
• 2.3.x
• 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7

Installation Guide

Download Canonical URL Extension from your account dashboard. Now you have the following 2 methods to install the extension.

Method 1

1. Unzip fme_canonicalurl-x.x.x.zip to a local folder.
2. Make folder FME into your_magento_directory/app/code/ (if you don't find code folder within app folder, please create it first).
3. Create the following folders (as mentioned in step 2):

• app/code/FME
• app/code/FME/CanonicalUrl

4. Copy all the contents from fme_canonicalurl-x.x.x to newly created CanonicalUrl folder.
5. Now open console or shell.
6. Go to your Magento directory and run the following commands:

• php bin/magento module:enable FME_CanonicalUrl
• php bin/magento setup:upgrade
• php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f (-f may not work in Magento versions less than 2.2.x.)
• chmod command for var/ pub/static and generated/ folders

7. Reload the Magento admin and you will see FME Extensions on the left side menu of your admin panel.

Method 2

1. Unzip fme_canonicalurl-x.x.x.zip to a local folder.
2. Make folder FME into your_magento_directory/app/code/ (if you don't find code folder within app folder, please create it first).
3. Create the following folders (as mentioned in step 2):

• app/code/FME
• app/code/FME/CanonicalUrl

4. Copy all the contents from fme_canonicalurl-x.x.x to newly created CanonicalUrl folder.
5. Go to your_magento_directory/app/etc/
6. Open config.php file in etc folder
7. Add the following line in $modules array at the end ‘FME_CanonicalUrl’=>1,
8. Now open console or shell.
9. Go to your Magento directory and run the below commands

• php bin/magento setup:upgrade
• php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f (-f may not work in Magento versions less than 2.2.x.)
• chmod command for var/ pub/static and generated/ folders

10. Reload the Magento admin and you will see FME Extensions on the left side menu of your admin panel.