Jeremy

Hello ,

Since we didn’t hear back from you, we are going to close this thread. Feel free to re-open it or create a new one if you still need assistance.

Thank you.

Hello @dswebnew,

Thank you for sharing your concern and glad to hear that you got it sorted out.

@wpfixpath,

Appreciate the contribution to address the issue.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any other questions.

Hello @feodoraxis,

We will need to check this further on your site. Please email our support team at support@rankmath.com so we can assist you further.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello @banshik,

Thank you for sharing your experience and we’re sorry to hear about the trouble this caused you.

The Gravatar URL in the schema is pulled from the author’s profile data in WordPress. You can resolve this by going to WordPress Dashboard > Users, selecting the relevant user, and uploading a custom profile image to replace the Gravatar.

Alternatively, if you’d prefer to remove the image from the schema entirely, you can use the following filter:

add_filter( 'rank_math/json_ld', function( $data, $jsonld ) {
	unset($data['ProfilePage']['image']);
	return $data;
}, 99, 2);

If you’d like to replace it with a custom image instead, we have a filter for that as well:

add_filter('rank_math/json_ld', function ($data, $jsonld) {
  $data['ProfilePage']['image'] = [
    '@type' => 'imageObject',
    '@id' => 'ID you want to set',
    'url' => 'URL you want to set',
    'caption' => 'caption you want to set',
  ];
  return $data;
}, 99, 2);

You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

We appreciate your feedback and hope this helps. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need further assistance.

Hello @shelbiowens,

Thank you so much for getting in touch.

The SEO score in Rank Math updates in real time as you make changes to your content or SEO settings, including focus keywords, meta title, and description. This means you’ll see the score adjust instantly while you’re editing.

However, to make sure all your changes are saved and applied to your post, you’ll still need to click the Update (or Save) button.

Hope that helps.

Hello @angeldavo,

Thank you for the detailed follow-up, and we truly appreciate @superbear1 joining the discussion and sharing those helpful insights.

The suggestions shared by @superbear1 are helpful, particularly checking other plugins, cron jobs, theme functions, and any external integrations or scripts. These are the most common sources of this kind of behavior.

Please keep us posted on what you find, and if you need any further assistance from our side, we’re here to help.

Hello @angeldavo,

Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

Rank Math does not include any functionality that automatically modifies posts or updates the post_modified date in bulk in the background. There are no processes triggered after plugin updates that would recalculate SEO scores or reindex posts automatically. The SEO score recalculation in Rank Math is only performed manually via the Database Tools when explicitly initiated.

Based on your description, it’s unlikely that Rank Math is responsible for these bulk modifications. To help confirm this, we recommend temporarily deactivating Rank Math and monitoring whether the issue persists. If the updates continue even after deactivation, it would indicate that the behavior is coming from another plugin, theme function, scheduled task (cron), or possibly external access.

If the issue stops after disabling Rank Math, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to investigate further with you.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello @qinisom,

Thank you so much for getting in touch.

The first query is used to determine the latest modified date per post type, excluding content marked as noindex. This is mainly for sitemap generation.

The second one is a WordPress media search query that looks for attachments matching specific keywords (e.g., from Media Library searches or related processes).

If these are taking longer than expected, it’s often due to a large number of posts/attachments being processed per sitemap, which can slow things down.

At the moment, these queries can’t be deferred to CLI or scheduled separately. However, you can reduce the load by lowering the number of URLs processed per request. Just go to Rank Math → Sitemap Settings → General Settings and reduce the Links per Sitemap value

This helps improve performance by splitting the workload into smaller chunks.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.