Could you add the rel next and prev to WordPress Loop?

Actually Yoast doesn’t add the next and prev links to the headers of the pages that have pagination.

https://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/

Add “noindex” to this pages is a temporally solution, but not the best for SEO. Google say this:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en

We need next and prev links if we use WordPress “The Loop” for a better SEO. And the canonical to the self page.

Sample (imagining that we have a blog with 99 pages):

The homepage have this header:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://mydomain.com/”&gt;
<link rel=”next” href=”https://mydomain.com/page/2/”&gt;

The second page of the Loop:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://mydomain.com/page/2/”&gt;
<link rel=”prev” href=”https://mydomain.com/”&gt;
<link rel=”next” href=”https://mydomain.com/page/3/”&gt;

The last page of the loop:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://mydomain.com/page/99/”&gt;
<link rel=”prev” href=”https://mydomain.com/page/98/”&gt;

I think we would all be very grateful to add this code, as WordPress developers don’t seem to want to.

Great idea and I thought Newspaper already had this unless it changed with the latest updates. We still are holding off with 8.6 after all the issues.

Thanks Simion!!!

We need next and prev links if we use WordPress “The Loop” for a better SEO. And the canonical to the self page.

+1.
Thank you, Simion!