I had the exact same problem, and I believe that was probably caused because WordPress doesn’t know about the primary category (that is something added by Yoast SEO instead). So is something that in my opinion Yoast SEO should manage, hopefully in next releases they’ll do it. In the meanwhile it looks I’ve smoothly resolved … Read more
Canonical Tag Issue with Dual Product URLs in WooCommerce & Yoast SEO
Change Paginated Blog Canonicals
I noticed that all problematic posts had their wp_yoast_indexable row updated a few months ago which exactly matched with when I ran a script to update all existing posts. It was something like this: $posts = get_posts($args); foreach ($posts as $i => $post) { $post_data = array( ‘ID’ => $post->ID, // other stuff ); wp_update_post($post_data); … Read more
Move the wordpress site to his new domain. Make sure everything is working, hint: update all url’s using Velvet Blues Plugin Point the old domain to a directory containing only two files: A file named “index.php” containing: <?php $goto = $_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]; header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”); header( “Location: http://new-domain-name.ch” . $goto ); ?> And a file … Read more
Google Indexed sub pages in wordpress pagination in post
tried putting this <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com”> as canonical tag
adding wordpress yoast SEO canonical url from “transition_post_status” hook
WordPress doesn’t do this on its own. It must be a plugin or a theme. The first step in trying to diagnose this would be to turn off all plugins and switch to a default theme, then start turning plugins back on, one by one, till you find the culprit. If none of your plugins … Read more
Remove WP Core canonical for category pagination