This plugin allows setting a default custom URL to be used as canonical. It is designed to work with Yoast SEO only.
As of April 2026, Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO is a WordPress seo plugin with 100 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
Defining your default canonical arbitrary is most useful for those unfortunate souls who have their site URLs in punycode. This plugin allows setting a default custom URL to be used as canonical. It is designed to work with Yoast SEO only. The individual settings are still available and can be edited as before. Since it is dependent on presence of Yoast SEO, this plugin will not activate without it.
The plugin does not add its own settings page, It uses WordPress Settings -> General. Look for it at the bottom of that page.
Supported versions:
WordPress 4.x
WordPress 5.x
WordPress 6.x
Yoast SEO 6.x-20.x
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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