Comments on: Disable WordPress’ Built-in Canonical URL

By: Farhan Niazi

Farhan Niazi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:44:18 +0000

Thanks for this.. Been driving me crazy for the past two days..
Cheers!

By: daren

daren — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:18:18 +0000

remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links_extra’, 3 ); // Removes the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links’, 2 ); // Removes links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’); // Removes the link to the Really Simple Discovery service endpoint, EditURI link
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’); // Removes the link to the Windows Live Writer manifest file.
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘index_rel_link’); // Removes the index link
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘parent_post_rel_link’); // Removes the prev link
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘start_post_rel_link’); // Removes the start link
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link’); // Removes the relational links for the posts adjacent to the current post.
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’); // Removes the WordPress version i.e. -

By: Heiko

Heiko — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:02:29 +0000

I now searched a few days for this line of code to remove this Canonical tag – Exactly what it should do! Thanks!
Just to add one point: In All in One Seo Plugin you can disable it manually, but then the standard wp_head comes up. If you like to do cross canonical (e.g. with custom fields) then this code line helps to disable standard canonical…
thx
Heiko

By: rudolf

rudolf — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:35:19 +0000

beleza demais, thanks

By: Selectively Disable WordPress Canonical URL and Redirect | Ian B. Harper

Selectively Disable WordPress Canonical URL and Redirect | Ian B. Harper — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:37:34 +0000

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By: Ian Harper

Ian Harper — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:30:25 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It worked like a charm! I ran across several support requests that couldn’t get the correct answer to this problem. One suggested rewriting the entire wp_head *shudder*. I’m glad that I found yours.

By: Website Builder

Website Builder — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:43:35 +0000

hi,
Thanks for the information. I have customised my pagination and Google didn’t like the canonical links, so I have added your lines and the errors have disappeared from webmaster tools. Many Thanks.

By: Stop WordPress from outputting the canonical link tag | Eli Thompson's Blog

Stop WordPress from outputting the canonical link tag | Eli Thompson's Blog — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:32:55 +0000

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By: Josh L

Josh L — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:59:17 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. I have a certain page that takes in $_GET parameters and has dynamic output, and the canonical feature was causing these pages not to get indexed in Google. Dropped your hook into the template file for those pages and viola.

Thanks again!

By: Tip For Datafeedr Users: Removing Rel Canonical – Why And How?

Tip For Datafeedr Users: Removing Rel Canonical – Why And How? — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:24:24 +0000

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