force http canonical tag on https pages

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At present all https pages have their own canonical tags referencing https, which is incorrect, they should be referencing the http versions.

e.g:

https://www.example.com

has the following canonical tag:

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

How can we make the canonical tags on https pages use the http URLs?

3 Answers
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You can change it using following code, add it in your theme function.php or in plugin.

remove_action ( 'wp_head' , 'rel_canonical' ) ;
add_action ( 'wp_head' , 'my_rel_canonical' ) ;

function my_rel_canonical () {
    ob_start () ;
    rel_canonical () ;
    $rel_content = ob_get_contents () ;
    ob_end_clean () ;
    echo str_replace ( "https:" , "http:" , $rel_content ) ;
}

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