CopyCat Category Duplicator is available as both a premium tool in the Your Store Tools suite and as a stand-alone app in the BigCommerce Store. This documentation on this page applies for BOTH versions.
In order to set categories as canonical, you’ll need to edit your templates/layouts/base.html page within your theme.
You will need to replace the following which is in the first few lines of your template:
{{{ head.meta_tags }}}With this code:
{{#if page_type '===' 'category'}}
{{ assignVar "currentCanonical" (first (split (last (split head.meta_tags "link rel='canonical' href='")) "' /><meta name='platform'")) }}
{{#contains head.meta_tags 'meta name="description"' ~}}
{{ assignVar "rawCanonical" (first (split (last (split head.meta_tags 'meta name="keywords" content="')) '"><meta')) }}
{{~else~}}
{{ assignVar "rawCanonical" (first (split (last (split head.meta_tags 'meta name="keywords" content="')) '"><link')) }}
{{/contains}}
{{#contains (getVar "rawCanonical") 'canonical|'}}
{{ assignVar "canonical" (last (split (getVar "rawCanonical") 'canonical|')) }}
{{#each (split head.meta_tags (getVar "currentCanonical")) ~}}
{{#contains this 'canonical' ~}}
{{{this}}}{{{ getVar "canonical" }}}
{{~else~}}
{{{this}}}
{{~/contains}}
{{~/each}}
{{else}}
{{{ head.meta_tags }}}
{{/contains}}
{{else}}
{{{ head.meta_tags }}}
{{/if}}Did you find an error or need additional support? Contact us at support@yourstorewizards.com to let us know!