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Reputation: 1799

Can't remove canonical link in WordPress with Yoast SEO Plugin

So I'm trying to remove the canonical link in the header of WordPress for paginated pages but all the suggestions I tried aren't working.

Here is my code which is in my functions.php file:

function my_add_noindex_tags(){
    $paged = intval( get_query_var( 'paged' ) );

    if(is_search() || is_404() ) :
        echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">';
    endif;

    if ($paged >= 2) :
        add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false', 10, 1 );

        remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');

        echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">';
    endif;
}
add_action('wp_head','my_add_noindex_tags', 4 );

I know the code inside if ($paged >= 2) : runs because this tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> is in the head section.

Anyone know where I might be going wrong.

The issue here is the canonical link added by Yoast SEO aren't properly removed as expected.

Cheers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3167

Answers (4)

JoseLazo
JoseLazo

Reputation: 208

I know I'm late to the party, but for the right implementation, you need to run 'wpseo_canonical' filter directly:

function remove_canonical_pagination() {
    $paged = intval( get_query_var( 'paged' ) );

    if ($paged >= 2) {
        return false;
    }
}
add_action( 'wpseo_canonical', 'remove_canonical_pagination', 4);

Upvotes: 0

luissimo
luissimo

Reputation: 978

All these answers didn't help me and i couldn't find the right answer for my scenario:

I had to set priority to higher than 10 because apparently Yoast changes the url at priority 10 so if you want to change their url you have to set a higher priority:

Change the canonical url with a custom function:

add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', 'change_canonical', 20 );

Delete the canonical url:

add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false', 20 );

Be aware that if you do not set a priority it will use priority 10 as the default and it will not work.

Upvotes: 0

Xlawok
Xlawok

Reputation: 1

For me only adding this to init action worked

add_action('init', function() {

   add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false', 10 );

});

Upvotes: 0

josephting
josephting

Reputation: 2665

After going through the Yoast SEO codes, it seems like the canonical action is added to wpseo_head action.

You either have to use priority 1 when adding your function to run in wp_head to get this to execute properly, or do it with the appropriate method below ie. using wpseo_head action.

function remove_canonical() {
    $paged = intval( get_query_var( 'paged' ) );

    if ($paged >= 2) {
        add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false', 10 );
    }
}
add_action( 'wpseo_head', 'remove_canonical', 4);

Upvotes: 1

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