Custom Post Type – Product Schema does not stick

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

To help you investigate this issue, we might need to take a closer look at your website and settings. Please follow these steps:

• Edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress logins in the Sensitive Data section. This is a secure section that only our support staff can access.
  
• Make sure you take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
• If you prefer, you can use this 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 also use this plugin to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We appreciate your cooperation and patience. Thank you for choosing Rank Math.

Hello,

1. Please test the content of the schema generated by Rank Math available in the head element of the ‘live’ page. It is within a script tag of type “application/ld+json” with class rank-math-schema. You can test the schema using the Google Rich Results test tool or https://validator.schema.org/

2. Rank Math only uses 2 types for the og:type meta tag, Article and Product. The Product type is for WooCommerce products, and for the rest, we use the Article type.

However, if you want to manually update the tag from Article to Product for your “Pages”, then you can use this filter:

add_filter( 'rank_math/opengraph/type', function( $type ) {
 $post_types = ['page'];          //separate the post types with a comma
	 if(in_array( get_post_type(), $post_types )){
     return "product";
 }
	return $type;
});

And here’s how you can add the filter:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps.

Hello,

The Product Schema has some required properties that are not added by default when you use that as the default so you need to edit the current Product Schema to at least include either the offer or reviews for it.

When you add the Schema manually inside the page and ignore those, the Schema still gets applied because there was already user interaction so the plugin assumes that you are doing this willingly and setting the Product Schema incompletely and inaccurately, but it won’t do it automatically to prevent Schema markup issues caused directly by the plugin without user intervention.

That’s why it works by removing the Product Schema and adding it again manually or by just hitting the update button on the page after creation.

The automatic Product Schema only works for WooCommerce Products, and on all other pages needs to be done manually.

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

Hello,

No, this cannot be automated, at least not with the Free version of the plugin. As we mentioned in our reply, the automatic Product Schema only applies to WooCommerce products.

In the PRO version, you have access to Schema Templates which can be created and applied to a specific set of pages with the correct information: https://rankmath.com/kb/schema-templates/

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

Hello,

We are glad to hear that this issue has been resolved. Thank you for letting us know. This ticket will be closed now, but you can always open a new one if you have any other questions or concerns. We are here to help you with anything related to Rank Math.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout this process.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math.