Title: Pagination causing duplicate content
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Pagination causing duplicate content

 *  [NTaylorH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntaylorh/)
 * (@ntaylorh)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-causing-duplicate-content/)
 * Webmaster Tools is viewing paginated testimonial pages as duplicate content –
   how can this be avoided without disabling pagination? My sitemap is only submitting
   the first page of a series (not page 2, etc) but Google clearly crawls and indexes
   all of them.
 * It also seems to pick up the individual testimonials.
 * Is there a setting I’ve overlooked or was the initial set up (done by someone
   else) improper in some way?
 * Thank you for your help!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/testimonials-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/testimonials-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Subharanjan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subharanjan/)
 * (@subharanjan)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-causing-duplicate-content/#post-6646032)
 * Hi NTaylorH,
 * I’m sorry about the delayed response. I hope your query has been answered through
   email based support.
 * To summarize: For the pagination functionality, we’re not sending any commands
   to the WP header to modify the canonical because it’s shortcode based. That said,
   we’ve created a ticket [https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/issues/188](https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/issues/188)
   to track the issue.
 * Next, for our website and others, we’ve not had duplicate content issues arise
   at this point. I think it might be because we’re using Yoast SEO to create a 
   testimonials sitemap. However, the latest versions of Testimonials Widget Premium
   has sitemap.xml capability built-in. Because of this, the testimonials are indexed
   correctly and in turn could be preventing the duplicate content issues.
 * If you’re still having trouble, please let me know.
 * Thanks !!

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 * Last reply from: [Subharanjan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subharanjan/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-causing-duplicate-content/#post-6646032)
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