Removing datePublished and dateModified meta

Resolved rocketpig3
(@rocketpig3)

5 years, 5 months ago
Hi,

I am trying to remove the datePublished and dateModified meta tags from blog posts.

I have this in my functions.php file and the publish date remains in the source code:
```
add_filter( 'rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity', function( $data ) {
	unset( $data['datePublished'] );
	return $data;
}, 10, 1 );
```
As per this: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/remove-datepublished-from-schema/

How can I remove these date meta tags?

Thanks
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Plugin Author Rank Math SEO
(@rankmath)

5 years, 5 months ago

Hello @rocketpig3,

Thank you for contacting the support.

You can use the following filter to remove that data from Schema:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#change-post-schema-data

But please stay advised that we do not recommend doing that as Google can still fetch that data from Sitemaps.

Hope that helps.
Thread Starter rocketpig3
(@rocketpig3)

5 years, 5 months ago
Thanks.

Is this correct? It doesn’t appear to be working.

/**

* Filter to change the schema data.
* Replace $schema_type with schema name like article, review, etc.

* @param array $entity Snippet Data
* @return array

*/
add_filter( “rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_{$schema}_entity”, function( $entity ) {
unset( $schema[‘datePublished’] );
unset( $schema[‘datePublished’] );
return $entity;
});

Also, is there a way to remove the date from the sitemap? I’d like it to look like this: https://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/sitemap-comparison.xml

Maybe using a sitemap made by another plugin?

Thanks
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Plugin Author Rank Math SEO
(@rankmath)

5 years, 5 months ago
Hello @rocketpig3

Please use the following code to remove datePublished from the Article Schema:
```
add_filter( "rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity", function( $entity ) {
unset( $schema['datePublished'] );
return $entity;
});
```
To remove date from the Sitemap, you can use following filter code:
`add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ) {
if ( isset( $url[‘mod’] ) ) {
unset( $url[‘mod’] );
}
return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

Hope that helps. Thank you.
Thread Starter rocketpig3
(@rocketpig3)

5 years, 5 months ago
Hi again,

Thanks for that.

I tried the filter to remove datePublished by putting it in my child theme’s functions.php. However “datePublished”:”2020-01-02T07:00:01+00:00″ remains in the source code after clearing my site and browser cache. The site I am testing it on is the same one as in the original post.

The code looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/TEuFZVI.png

Similar question: can you use the same code but with dateModified instead of datePublished to remove dateModified?

Thanks
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Plugin Author Rank Math SEO
(@rankmath)

5 years, 4 months ago
Hello @rocketpig3

The code we provided should remove the datePublished & dateModified from the Article Schema.

You must be seeing those 2 properties in the WebPage entity.

Here is a complete code to remove it from both Article & WebPage entity:
```
add_filter( 'rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity', function( $entity ) {
	unset( $entity['datePublished'] );
	unset( $entity['dateModified'] );
    return $entity;
} );
add_filter( 'rank_math/json_ld', function( $data, $jsonld ) {
	if ( ! isset( $data['WebPage'] ) ) {
		return $data;
	}
	unset( $data['WebPage']['datePublished'] );
	unset( $data['WebPage']['dateModified'] );
	return $data;
}, 99, 2 );
```
Hope that helps.
ponderconsulting
(@ponderconsulting)

4 years, 11 months ago

@rankmath – this last function is not working for me. I wish it was. A page example is is https://madisonheightsurgent.care/urgent-care-berkley-mi and I ran it through here – https://search.google.com/test/rich-results.

Plugin Author Rank Math SEO
(@rankmath)

4 years, 11 months ago

Hello @ponderconsulting

Thank you for your message.

view-source:https://madisonheightsurgent.care/urgent-care-berkley-mi

It seems like some other SEO plugin is active on your website.

Also, please open a new support topic so we can assist you better:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/#new-topic-0

Looking forward to helping you.

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