Disable Automatic Meta Descriptions by RankMath

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and bringing your concern to our attention.

If you want to remove the meta description tag completely from your website, you can use the following filter on your website:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', function( $description ) {
	return false;
});

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello,

When you leave the meta description field blank in the Rank Math SEO Meta box, it will automatically use the description you’ve set in Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Posts/Pages.

Since meta description is an important factor for SEO, you can’t leave the field blank in the Titles & Meta settings.

However, there is a trick you can use like using a variable in Titles & Meta > Posts/Pages > Single Post Description which will not return any value:

In such a case, when you leave the meta description field blank in the Rank Math SEO Meta box, it will not be able to use the default settings to generate any meta description.

But it will be applied to all of your posts/pages. If you want to use any custom meta description, you’ll have to edit the SEO Meta box every time.

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

We are glad that helped.

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