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How to remove rel=canonical from tag pages in WordPress – SEO

I have a website built with WordPress and I want to noindex my tag pages but I’ve noticed that, although I’ve marked them as noindex, Yoast SEO plugin still adds rel=canonical tag.

Google says rel=canonical and noindex directives must not be together. So, I tried to remove canonical tag adding the following code to my functions.php file:

if ( is_tag() ) {
   add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false' );
   remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');
}

But nothing happened. The canonical tag is still there.

Do you know how I can remove it?

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  1. 0

    By adding only this code to your functions.php you can remove rel=”canonical” tag: 

    add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false' );
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  2. 0

    Edit tag.php file in your theme’s directory and remove the concerned code or add a file named tag-slug.php to your theme’s directory and then build a custom template for your tag archives.

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