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Total downloads: 448
Active installs: 40
Total reviews: 0
Average rating: 0
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 4/19/2025 (256 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/19/2025 (0 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 256 days ago

38/100

Is Canonical Pages abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 256 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Developers

Painless Analytics (Owner)2Angelo Mandato (Owner)9Angelo Mandato4

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Description

Quickly enable, customize, or disable the canonical meta tag on your pages. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO plugins are supported.

Additional Info

This plugin allows you to quickly enable, customize, or disable the rel="canonical" meta tag in your posts and pages.

A canonical URL is the preferred version of a webpage that search engines like Google should prioritize over other duplicate or similar URLs. It helps prevent duplicate content in searches and ensures that search engines index and rank the most important page.

Features

  • Enable or Disable if page includes the rel="canonical" meta tag
  • Set a custom Canonical URL
  • Configure the Canonical URL for the blog home page

Supported SEO Plugins

The following plugins work with this plugin:
– Yoast SEO
– Rank Math SEO
– All in one SEO SEO
– Slim SEO

Don’t see your favorite SEO plugin? Please let us know.

Contributors

Angelo Mandato, Founder and CTO of Painless Analytics – Plugin author

Installation

Automatic Plugin Installation

Install using the built-in plugin installer:

  1. Go to Plugins > Add New.
  2. Type in “Canonical Pages” in Search Plugins box.
  3. Find “Canonical Pages” in the search results.
  4. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
  5. Click Activate to activate it.

Manual Plugin Installation

  1. Download this plugin to your computer.
  2. Extract the plugin zip file (or compressed folder).
  3. With your FTP program, upload the plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
  4. Go to Plugins screen and find “Canonical Pages” plugin in the list.
  5. Click Activate to activate it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this compatible with the Yoast SEO plugin?

Yes, you can disable or specify a custom Canonical URL

Is this compatible with the Rank Math SEO plugin?

Yes, you can disable or specify a custom Canonical URL

Is this compatible with the All in one SEO plugin?

Yes

Is this compatible with the Slim SEO plugin?

Yes

Is this plugin necessary if I have an SEO plugin?

It may not be necessary if you are accustomed to the functionality built into your SEO plugin.

Which SEO plugins are not supported at this time?

Currently SEOPres, SEO Simple Pack, SmartCrawl WordPress SEO, and Squirrly SEO are not supported.

If I set a custom Canonical URL with this plugin, does it override the SEO plugin Canonical URL?

Yes, for the SEO plugins supported. Please see the list of supported SEO plugins.

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Screenshots

  1. Canonical options during page editing

    Canonical options during page editing

Changelog

1.0

Released on 2025-04-19

Official release of plugin

0.0.4

Released on 2025-04-18

Setup plugin on GitHub and action to publish on WordPress.org

0.0.3

Released on 2025-04-12

Issues addressed for wordpress.org submission review process

0.0.2

Released on 2025-04-07

Bug fixes and added CHANGELOG.md

0.0.1

Released on 2025-04-07

Initial release of Canonical Pages plugin

Full Version History

Please see the changelog on Github.

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