fix: canonicalize versioned doc pages to the version-less latest URL - #2070
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Versioned doc pages (/docs/<project>/<version>/...) self-canonicalize by default, so Google indexes each version as an independent page competing with the version-less latest URL. GSC shows the resulting traffic migration: e.g. /docs/apisix/plugins/cors/ clicks fell 69 -> 14 while /docs/apisix/3.10/plugins/cors/ rose 0 -> 38 in the last 28 days. Wrap theme LayoutHead to re-point canonical (and og:url) of versioned and /next/ doc pages at the version-less URL. Precedence is preserved by react-helmet's last-wins rule: a canonical embedded in the doc markdown itself (e.g. the docs.api7.ai links on latest pages) still overrides this wrapper, and version-less pages are untouched. Verified on a production build: - /docs/apisix/3.16/plugins/cors/ -> canonical https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/plugins/cors/ - /zh/docs/apisix/3.16/plugins/cors/ -> canonical https://apisix.apache.org/zh/docs/apisix/plugins/cors/ - /docs/apisix/plugins/cors/ (latest) -> canonical https://docs.api7.ai/hub/cors (unchanged) - exactly one canonical link per page; og:url matches
Fails the deploy (before publishing) if a future Docusaurus or theme change silently breaks the one-canonical rule, the versioned->latest re-pointing, or the markdown-embedded canonical override.
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