I want to Update rel=canonical href using Java Script

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

I’m not sure if overriding canonical using Javascript will work since this is something that is more on the spider level (i.e. the part that retrieves and collects data) than on the indexer level (the part of a bot that interprets data and stores it in the search index).

@neounix

modify this Discourse Ruby lib file directly

Unsolicited advice: you might want to read this topic so you can put those overrides in a plugin:

Tips for overriding existing Discourse methods in plugins

I’ve been running into a bunch of instances recently of needing to override existing ruby methods from plugins, and thought I’d share my best practices here. Overriding an instance method class ::TopicQuery module BabbleDefaultResults def default_results(options={}) super(options).where('archetype <> ?', Archetype.chat) end end prepend BabbleDefaultResults end Here I’m removing chat topics from an instance method which is returning a list of topics. The module name BabbleD…