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I found this thread when I was looking to do the exact same thing.

After some digging, I finally figured it out.

1. Navigate to the URL tab under the custom content type you’d like to customize.
2. Uncheck “Rewrite with Permalink Front”
3. Permalink Action: Custom
4. Rewrite Slug: “/”

That’s it! The custom content type posts should default to {root}/%post-name%/

I hope this helps!

[IMPORTANT EDIT!]

While this resulted in the URL structure desired for the custom content types, it effectively broke all of the regular page / post URL’s for the rest of the site. So please use this fix with caution. I’m going to continue searching for a universal fix.

I temporarily fixed my problem by commenting out line 10 in class-frontend.php:

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rel_canonical' );

But it will not fix once I upgrade the plugin. It would be nice to have some options as to when to use the canonical URL or disable it altogether.

I would also like to be able to disable the canonical URL… the Yoast SEO plugin is creating a canonical non-friendl URL for a WP Custom Content Type and is screwing up the indexing for the search engines. Any ideas??

Not really, but I created a bit of a hack to achieve what I was trying to accomplish:

So wherever I wanted the customize the page title, I would set a global variable containing the required title and then call get_header():

global $title;
$title = 'My Custom Title';
get_header(); ?>

And then the header.php page looks like this:

<? global $title; ?>
<? if ($title): ?>
<title><?=$title?></title>
<? else: ?>
<title>
<? wp_title('');?>
</title>
<? endif; ?>

This could be shorthanded with a ternary syntax:

<? global $title; ?>
<? ($title) ? $title : wp_title('') ;?>

So not the cleanest solution, but it got the job done.