Canonical URL problem

Hi @dieforyou,

Thanks for reaching out. I understand that the canonical URL for your new pages shows the URL in plain permalinks instead of the post name.

As the first step, can you please confirm that you are running the latest version of the Yoast SEO plugin(19.8)?

If you are already running the latest version, please do the following steps.

1. Install and activate the Yoast Test Helper plugin found here.
2. Go to Tools → Yoast Test
3. Click the Reset Indexables tables & migrations button.
4. Go to Yoast SEO > Tools, and under SEO data, click the “Start SEO data optimization” button to allow Yoast to rescan your content.

Regarding canonical URL pagination, we would like to inform you that Yoast SEO adds rel=”next” and rel=”prev” tags that let search engines know that they are on a paginated archive series. That makes sure that they crawl all the pages of your archive. You can read more about this Yoast SEO feature here.

@dieforyou Thanks for your reply, and we’re sorry to hear that you are still experiencing this issue with canonicals.

Can you please confirm you are using the most recent release of Yoast SEO version 19.8? You can learn more about updating here: https://yoast.com/help/how-can-i-update-my-free-plugin/

Also, can you confirm you are using WordPress 6.0.2? You can check by clicking on the W in the top left and selecting About. If you need to update, please check with your host provider. Please know that if you are using an older version of WordPress Core you may experience unexpected behavior with Yoast. This guide explains more: https://yoast.com/why-we-dont-support-old-wordpress-versions/

If you update to the most current version of WordPress and Yoast SEO, does this resolve the issue?

If you have confirmed both WordPress, Yoast SEO, and all of your site’s other plugins and themes are up to date and the problem is still occurring, we would next recommend performing a conflict check. A plugin or theme conflict can sometimes cause functionality problems, errors, or unexpected behavior from the plugin. If you are unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we have a step by step guide on how to check for conflicts available here: How to check for plugin conflicts.

Test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin allows you to run a conflict check without affecting normal visitors to your site.

Can you please confirm you have performed a complete conflict check by disabling other plugins, and resetting the theme to a default such as TwentyTwentyOne and let us know the results?
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If you do not feel comfortable to do this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.