How to set up self-referencing canonicals for paginated blog pages with RankMath

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Rank Math adds a self-referencing canonical URL by default for your paginated pages. But if it is not working then you can try the following filter to force the self-referencing canonical URL of your blog pagination:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $canonical ) {
	global $wp;
	$current_slug = home_url( $wp->request );

	if ( is_paged()) {
		$canonical = $current_slug . '/';
	}
	return $canonical;
});

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Let us know how it goes.

Thank you.

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