Removing rel canonical added by Yoast SEO plugin

Question

Couldn\'t find a solution after a quick google so thought i\'d pop a quick post on here.

Trying to remove a automatically added rel=canonical link (which is added by

Answer 1

most likely the canonical is not generated by yoast, there is a wordpress inbuilt function you can prevent it by adding this to your theme´s functions.php

remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');