[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6767: Mercantile store categories needs pretty permalinks and canonical URLs

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#6767: Mercantile store categories needs pretty permalinks and canonical URLs
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 Reporter:  jonoaldersonwp  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  low             |  Milestone:
Component:  General         |   Keywords:  seo
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 The Mercantile site currently lacks canonical URLs on category pages,
 which is causing crawling and indexing problems.

 To address this, we should:
 - Add a canonical URL tag on https://mercantile.wordpress.org/shop/
 - Alter categories to use pretty permalinks (e.g.,
 https://mercantile.wordpress.org/shop/?product_cat=notebooks becomes
 https://mercantile.wordpress.org/shop/category/notebooks/)
   - Disable compound filtering to simplify the above
 (https://mercantile.wordpress.org/shop/?product_cat=stickers,women,pride,accessories)
   - Include the paginated states in canonical URL values, when paginated
 (e.g., https://mercantile.wordpress.org/shop/category/notebooks/page/2/)

 NB, do we have a better Component to put this in?

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