Canonical URL tag helps you setup a default URL, the search engines should have for a certain page within your website. Canonical tag is being used by Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. So far, so good. Then a question comes up.

How to setup a canonical url inside DotNetNuke?

Cool stuff. Really! DotNetNuke has built-in support for adding canonical URL tag inside page header.

• Login to your portal as Administrator.
• Go to any page where you want to add a canonical tag.
• Expand Control Panel by clicking icon next Show Control Panel?
• Click to Settings button under Page Functions.
• Expand Advanced Settings.
• You will find Page Header Tags under Appereance section.
• Add the code like below.

Search engines will recognize this change next time they visit the page.

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If you are using Forum module you will most likely have issues with displaying thread columns within latest releases of DotNetNuke.

Even official DotNetNuke forum page has same problem.



Well, you can somehow troubleshoot and solve the issue.

To troubleshoot the problem you need to navigate to DesktopModules\Forum\Themes\Default directory and edit Default.css file with a text/css editor.

Before editing Default.css file make sure that you have a backup of this file (e.g Default.css.bak)

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