Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO
by Andrei Zhitkov · SEO
This plugin allows setting a default custom URL to be used as canonical. It is designed to work with Yoast SEO only.
44 health vs 63 average across 612 SEO plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1081 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 162
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-14 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-07-11 100+ → 90+ down after 17 days in band
- 2026-06-24 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-23 100+ → 90+ down after 678 days in band
- 2024-08-14 200+ → 100+ down after 72 days in band
- 2024-06-03 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in band
- 2024-05-29 200+ → 100+ down after 6 days in band
- 2024-05-23 100+ → 200+ up after 399 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
Website LLMs.txt 40K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP All Import – Import SEO Settings for Yoast SEO 20K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags B -
WPGraphQL Yoast SEO Addon 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Remove Yoast SEO Comments 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D - C Canonical SEO 5K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/custom-canonical" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO: 100+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-canonical