Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Were you using another SEO plugin? In that case, you might be able to import the other plugin settings to Rank Math.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hi I wasn’t using another SEO plugin but when I look in the import/export tab it says that I was using Yoast (but the plugin isn’t installed).
Should I clear these settings and go through the setup wizard again?
Rich
Hello,
If you want, before doing it, we could take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
After a lot of debugging, I found you have a plugin (Network Empire Video Silo Blog Builder) which is adding the extra meta description (when disabled, the only meta added is done by Rank Math). Could you check it?
Looking forward to help you.
Hi Alberto
Thanks for looking into this
Agh that’s a shame as I can’t remove that plugin.
Is there a way for me to stop RankMath rewriting the title and description?
Rich
Hi Rich,
You can add the following code snippets to your theme’s functions.php file to disable the title and description meta tags:
/**
* Code to move title inside the Rank Math's meta
*
* @param string $title
*/
add_action( 'init', function() {
remove_action( 'rank_math/head', '_wp_render_title_tag', 1 );
//uncomment to add default title tag
//add_action( 'wp_head', '_wp_render_title_tag', 1 );
});
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description','__return_false');
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thanks for your help I will give it a try tomorrow and report back.
Rich
Hi
This fixed the description issue but
Unfortunately it didn’t fix the title!
Rich
Hello,
I modified the code to remove title to the following, please try it and let us know:
add_action( 'wp_head', 'rankmath_disable_features',1);
function rankmath_disable_features() {
remove_all_actions( 'rank_math/head');
}
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hi
Unfortunately no difference the net result is the same. This also fixes the extra meta description but not the <title>!
I guess this is something to do with the schema theme we are using.
Perhaps the easiest solution is for me to go through and copy the old <title>’s and descriptions into the RankMath snippet editor.
Do you agree?
Rich
Hello,
If that’s an option you would consider, I believe it would be great. This would allow your titles to be dynamically managed by Rank math making them easy to modify.
Let us know how it goes. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
OK that is done
Thanks for your help with this.
Hello,
We are glad we could assist you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
