Dedicated Custom Canonicals screen covering pages, posts, custom post types, terms, and archives
Indexing control
Canonical URL Manager
Canonical URL Manager gives you full control over the canonical URL of every page, post, custom post type entry, taxonomy term, and archive on your site, including the pagination pages WordPress generates automatically. Set overrides, validate them on save, and apply them through WordPress core, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO.
WordPress plugin
Canonical URL Manager
Features
Focused controls without a heavy SEO suite.
Technical SEO teams, agencies, publishers, and ecommerce operators managing canonical URLs across complex WordPress sites.
Automatic pagination detection for content pages, the posts page, and taxonomy or archive listings
Save-time canonical validation plus CSV import/export with a dry-run preview
Use cases
Built for real WordPress SEO problems.
These examples will become more specific as the product documentation, screenshots, and release details are finalized.
Sites with paginated content, archives, or a posts page that need page-specific canonical URLs
Teams auditing canonical mismatches and duplicate content across pages, posts, taxonomies, and archives
Agencies running bulk canonical updates via CSV, with full change history and one-click rollback
Product tour
A closer look at the plugin.
Real screens from the WordPress admin and the front-end comment experience.

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The Canonicals tab lists every page, post, and pagination entry with its default and override canonical URL.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you need more.
Free covers the canonical override, pagination detection, and validation workflow. Pro unlocks the full-site audit, change history, and automatic canonical fixes.
Free
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Get started on WordPress.org with the core feature set.
- Dedicated Custom Canonicals screen for pages, posts, custom post types, terms, and archives
- Shows the default canonical URL that WordPress or your SEO plugin would output for each item
- Detects nextpage content pagination, posts page pagination, and taxonomy/archive pagination
- Set a custom canonical URL per item and per pagination page
- Applies overrides through WordPress core, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO canonical filters, plus an HTML fallback rewrite
- CSV import/export with a dry-run preview for bulk changes
Pro
- Full-site canonical audit across pages, posts, terms, archives, and pagination, with live HTTP status checks
- Detects broken (404), redirected, noindex, external, and duplicate canonicals
- Effective canonical scan compares the expected canonical with what's actually rendered in the page HTML
- Full history of canonical changes, with one-click restore
- Auto-fix: pagination canonicals self-reference instead of pointing to page 1
- Auto-fix: strips tracking parameters (utm_*, gclid, fbclid, msclkid, and more)
- Auto-fix: strips display-variant parameters (print, amp, format, replytocom, and more)
- Auto-fix: forces the canonical to always match the requested URL, including its query string
