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1. Michael P
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I just switched over to using the Yoast plugin a few weeks back.

   All of my title/meta descriptions are displaying properly except that I can't stop the date from showing in search results.

   Under "title settings," I ticked the "Force rewrite titles" box and entered the tag %%excerpt%% for the meta description template; for both posts and pages. I made sure everything was saved properly, that was 2 weeks ago.

   The post date is showing up is serps for posts only, not pages.

   If you Google the search term--PROBIOTICS BRANDS-- (from the US), my post from the domain intestinaldysbiosis.com is the first result.

   You'll see the date displayed (which I want to get rid of). It was last cached on Dec. 16th.

   And modifications I made to the title tag and meta description are updated. The capital letters and the >> in the title are an example. I also changed the first letter of each word to capitals in the meta description.

   So I'm sure the meta description has been updated. And I only made those changes a few days ago and they are showing. I tried to remove the post dates over 2 weeks ago.

   I'm not very tech savvy, so if I'm missing something dumb, then I apologize. :)

   I'm using the Suffusion theme.

   Btw, just wanted to say thanks for this great plugin. Definitely better than All in One.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

2. Michael P
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Just wanted to add that the date is showing up for every one of my posts on every site, not just the one I mentioned.

   Thanks again.

3. Joost de Valk
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   The only way of forcing the date to not show up is by removing it from your single post template.

4. Michael P
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hello Joost. I appreciate the response. But I'm still a little bit at a loss.

   The post date only started appearing when I switched to the Yoast Seo Plugin.

   I used the stock Suffusion settings for a year, and the dates were never displayed.

   I also used All In One Seo, and that also never displayed the post date before the meta description.

   Where should I look in the single post template? Could you give me a heads up?

   Would be much appreciated..

   Mike

5. Etrain
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Mike,

   I have the same issue. I've used other plugins and never had an issue with the date showing up. I need to get it removed as it dates my site.

   Joost,

   Can you elaborate on how to make this happen? I'm also slow to remove the post date from the template. Will it re-arrange all of my posts?

   Any help would be much appreciated.

   Thanks
   Evan

6. Etrain
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Any update here?

   Mike were you able to figure this out?

   Thanks
   Evan

7. ciscoforall
   Member
   Posted 6 days ago #

   Same poblem with my blog ciscoforall.com
   please guide

8. Joost de Valk
   Member
   Posted 5 days ago #

   There's only one way of doing this: removing the date from the page entirely.

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