[Resolved] Infinite Scroll and Pagination in HTML

[The Witney SEO Guy]

Quickly want to say that I’m loving using GeneratePress.

One minor issue is that I’ve enabled Infinite Scroll but I’m still getting URLs like /blog/page/2/ in the HTML.

I’d like to remove these from the HTML if possible.

Would anyone be able to provide me with the necessary code to do this?

Thanks

[Tom]

Hi there,

Where in the HTML are you seeing those URLs?

[The Witney SEO Guy]

It appears in the rel=next and rel=prev attributes.

It also appears in the post navigation section which should appear at the bottom of the page. I’m assuming this is set to display: none in the CSS?

You can see them in the HTML on this page: https://witneyseoguy.co.uk/blog/

[Tom]

WordPress itself adds the rel="next" and previous tags in wp_head – your SEO plugin may be able to remove those?

As for the pagination – it is set to display: none. Infinite scroll actually uses the hidden “Next” link to know where to get posts from next.

[The Witney SEO Guy]

Okay great, thanks for that. I use Yoast SEO so I’ve disabled the rel=next and rel=prev by adding the code below to functions.php:

<?php
/********* DO NOT COPY THE PARTS ABOVE THIS LINE *********/

/* Remove Yoast SEO Prev/Next URL from all pages
 * Credit: Yoast Team
 * Last Tested: Jun 10 2017 using Yoast SEO 4.9 on WordPress 4.8
 */

add_filter( 'wpseo_next_rel_link', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_prev_rel_link', '__return_false' );

I’m guessing the remaining links can’t be removed then if they’re used by infinite scroll? It would be nice if there were a way for this to work without those links being output. Any plans for development there?

[Tom]

It hasn’t really come up before. Is there an issue with having the pagination set to display: none?

[The Witney SEO Guy]

Not a huge issue, but I’d prefer the second page didn’t get linked as it’s redundant when infinite scroll is enabled.

I think I’ll just disable infinite scroll for now.

Thanks for your help.

[Tom]

No problem!

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