Title: Remove Canonical
Last modified: April 29, 2021

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# Remove Canonical

 *  Resolved [pbadam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbadam/)
 * (@pbadam)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-canonical/)
 * I am retiring this website and want to redirect each page to its respective alternative
   on another domain.
 * However, it seems Yoast or wordpress(if you deactivate Yoast) are creating canonical
   URLs for each page by default. So adding an additional canonical URL per page
   to the external site is not doing its intended task because it conflicts with
   the already existing canonical URL for the same page.
 * How to circumvent this?
 * Wordpress version 5.15
    Yoast version 8.4
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fremove-canonical%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-canonical/#post-14381830)
 * [@pbadam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbadam/) If you wish to disable
   the canonical URL from being output on your site, you can use the developer filter`
   wpseo_canonical` to accomplish that.
 * We have more information on this [here](https://yoast.com/help/canonical-urls-in-wordpress-seo/#code),
   and you can find example code usage for the filter [here](https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/2aa7dcc9a38986e11fac68c7306cc091).
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-canonical/#post-14409097)
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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 * Last reply from: [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-canonical/#post-14409097)
 * Status: resolved