[Rank Math SEO Plugin] Change canonical URL (again)

[Marcus_Tang]

Hello,

I know this topic has been discussed, but I couldn't find the answer in the other posts.

RankMath shows my canonical url as https://domain.com but I have set it to https://www.domain.com everywhere else.   I have found the following line on my site:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://domain.com">

I am unsure where this line is being created and why it's set to the non WWW version.  I am using the latest Wordpress.

Is there a simple way to change this canonical URL reference from https://domain.com to https://www.domain.com    As Google is now displaying search result as the non-WWW version, which I want to avoid.

Many thanks!

[Pratik.d]

Hello,

I would suggest you to change Site URL which is without www. But if want to change canonical url without changing Site url then please add below filter to your theme's functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $url ) {
	$url = str_replace( 'https://', 'https://www.', $url );
	return $url;
});

Hope that helps. Thank you.

[Montgomerie]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting MyThemeShop and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

Can you please follow the reply from here and let us know in this ticket if that helped?

Looking forward to helping you.

P.S. There's a filter provided here which can help as well

 

[Marcus_Tang]

Hello,

Thanks for your response, but unfortunately the htaccess tweak doesn't seem to affect the canonical URL.  WHen I check the header, it still says 

<link rel="canonical" href="https://domain.com">

Is there an easy way to fix this?  

[Montgomerie]

Hello,

Can you please confirm the settings from the WordPress's General Settings area?

The plugin picks the data from there.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

[Marcus_Tang]

Thanks for getting back to me.   It's a multisite, so I get the settings from Network Admin -> Sites ->

Info Tab:  Site (URL):  https://domain.com

Settings Tab:  Siteurl: https://www.domain.com,  Home: https://www.domain.com

So it seems the culprit is the Site (URL) - or could it be because of the Yoast Plugin (which has now been deactivated by RankMath?

Either way, I would be grateful for your advice on how to change the <link rel="canonical" href="https://domain.com"> to <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.domain.com">

Thank you very much.

[Pratik.d]

Hello,

I would suggest you to change Site URL which is without www. But if want to change canonical url without changing Site url then please add below filter to your theme's functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $url ) {
	$url = str_replace( 'https://', 'https://www.', $url );
	return $url;
});

Hope that helps. Thank you.

[Marcus_Tang]

I managed to change the site (URL) directly in the DB which corrected the canonical URL in the end.

Thanks again for all your help!

[Jitendraa]

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