Title: force canonical scheme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# force canonical scheme

 *  [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/)
 * (@nisiwi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-canonical-scheme/)
 * when building sites using SSL I’d like to be able to force the canonical scheme
   to always force to http to ensure that https pages are not indexed
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/)
 * (@nisiwi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-canonical-scheme/#post-3861195)
 * I added a quick hack to get this resolved;
 * function design_canonical() {
    global $post; if(isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && $
   _SERVER[‘HTTPS’] == “on”) { $find = ‘[https://www.exampledomain.com&#8217](https://www.exampledomain.com&#8217);;
   $replace = ”; $theurl = str_replace($find,$replace,get_permalink($post->ID));
   return site_url( $theurl , ‘http’ ); } else { // Leave blank and Yoast SEO will
   use default canonical for posts/pages } }
 * add_filter( ‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘design_canonical’ );

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 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-canonical-scheme/#post-3861195)
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