The tag ‘link rel=canonical’ appears more than once in the document.

@mythreeseasons

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict, is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

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So this is also happening to me starting today. I am pretty sure there is a conflict with Google Stories and Yoast, which would be a serious issue since Stories is owned by Google.

3 of my web stories for Google popped a conflict today as well.

Both plugins are super important- how do we fix the conflict?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by saltysidedish.

I am absolutely having this issue and fairly sure it is the latest Web Stories plugin conflicting with Yoast.

If you can, roll back your version of Web Stories.

I dont know if this is the best long term fix but I found this code yesterday and added it the php of my theme editor:
(https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/multiple-canonicals/)

// remove yoast canonical for web stories
function remove_canonical() {
if ( is_singular( ‘web-story’ ) ) {
add_filter( ‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘__return_false’ );
}
}
add_action(‘wp’, ‘remove_canonical’);

The last web story I published is now valid according to the url inspection tool.

Hello @mythreeseasons @saltysidedish @benmyhre

We tried this on a test site with a default WP theme (TwentyTwenty) and only Yoast SEO v17.1 and Web Stories v1.11.0 as the plugins enabled and were able to replicate the issue where the web stories have duplicate canonical tag outputs.

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