How to remove canonical url in wordpress? add_filter( ‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘__return_false’ ); not Working for me

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In WordPress, there’s a function named redirect_canonical() which basically:

Redirects incoming links to the proper URL based on the site URL.

And by default, the function is hooked to template_redirect:

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical' );

So you can cancel/disable the default canonical redirects in WordPress like so:

remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical' );

However, if you’re just trying to set a custom canonical redirect URL, then you can use the redirect_canonical filter which is fired in the redirect_canonical() function:

add_filter( 'redirect_canonical', function( $redirect_url, $requested_url ){
    if ( put expression here ) {
        // Do something with $redirect_url.
        $redirect_url="custom URL here";
    }

    return $redirect_url;
}, 10, 2 );

But the Yoast SEO plugin is already filtering the canonical URL, so this should also work:

add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', function( $redirect_url ){
    if ( put expression here ) {
        // Do something with $redirect_url.
        $redirect_url="custom URL here";
    }

    return $redirect_url;
} );

But note that Yoast SEO doesn’t pass the $requested_url parameter; i.e. the original URL.

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