Remove trailing slash from Canonical url on homepage only

Why? What problem does that solve?

According to client, who is an SEO Professional, (not my area of expertise just passing on) he has seen sites rankings tank for sites that trusted that https://example.com and https://example.com/ are equivalent. I am dubious, but as i’m being specifically asked am looking for a solution or alternatively a strong enough argument against.

Are you using Yoast SEO? https://kb.yoast.com/kb/canonical-urls-in-wordpress-seo/

to read: https://www.winstondigitalmarketing.com/yoast-homepage-canonical-correct-include-trailing-slash/

Thanks Steve,
i’m using the The SEO Framwork not Yoast, but it uses WordPress’ canonical URL.
I tend to agree with all that the link says and my research showed the same.
However I still have client requesting it removed on the homepage. Is it possible?

I recommend asking at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/autodescription#new-post so the plugin’s / theme’s developers and support community can help you with this.

I have already spoken to Sybre Waaijer the plugin developer, as it uses WordPress’ canonical URL he redirected me here

Well, geez, he should know better than I.

There’s a filter you can use

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/redirect_canonical/

I haven’t found an example of using it, but I’d try writing the filter to strip the trailing slash from one of the URLs if the URL is the site’s home page. First, though, I’d just dump out the parameters and die() so I can see what gets passed in there when on the home page.