How to set up canonical URL service for Themes

This page lists the configurations you must set up in the Canonical URL Service for each Themes website. This ensures that your content matches the resolver configured for your Themes website in PageBuilder.

Note

You have some flexibility to customize URL configuration patterns in URL Service, but you must also customize your resolvers to match those patterns.

To ensure SEO best practices, all canonical URLs you configure must have the trailing slash. This prevents an unnecessary CDN redirect to the URL with the trailing slash on the page load. Examples:

PAGE TYPE	CRITERIA	FORMAT
video	{"type":"video"}	/video/%publish_date|year()%/%publish_date|month()%/%publish_date|day()%/%headlines.basic|slugify()%/
gallery	{"type":"gallery"}	/gallery/%publish_date|year()%/%publish_date|month()%/%publish_date|day()%/%headlines.basic|slugify()%/
author	{"type":"author"}	/author/%slug|slugify()%/

Additionally, set the Default Format to the following, which applies to articles:

%websites.{website_id}.website_section.path%/%publish_date|year()%/%publish_date|month()%/%publish_date|day()%/%headlines.basic|slugify()%/

important

Replace <website_id> with the website ID of the site you are configuring. Each site must have its own configuration and default format.