Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math.
Assuming you are referring to the SEO Meta Box in Elementor Template pages, Rank Math, by default, excludes support for Elementor templates as they are not actual pages or posts.
You can follow this guide to add the SEO Meta Box to the template pages:
https://rankmath.com/kb/enable-rank-math-on-elementor-templates/
I hope this helps.
Thank you.
Hello Anas,
Thanks for your help, that link solved the problem. I now have the SEO Meta Box on the template pages.
Thought, it didn’t overwrite the default page title. Even if I updated the titles or meta on the template, the pages where I’m using this template still have the “%title% %page% %sep% %sitename%” model for the title.
Any idea why ?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Could you please share the affected URL to check? You can add it in the sensitive data section
It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.
Meanwhile, please check if you have any firewall as there are chances that it will prevent saving the data.
Please check this link for more information and troubleshooting steps:
https://rankmath.com/kb/meta-data-not-saving/
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello there,
It doesn’t seem that it’s not saving. It just seems like it’s simply not working, like it doesn’t overwrite the page title template.
Tell me if the URL helps you to get it.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
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.
Thanks for your desire to help, but I won’t grant you an access on my WordPress or my FTP.
Just tell me what you would be looking at and I’ll look at it for you.
Hello,
Could you please check your browser console for script errors when you save your changes in your templates?
If you see an error containing “updateMeta”, then your server must be blocking Rank Math’s API. Please refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/meta-data-not-saving/#firewall
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Hello Jeremy,
I checked and don’t have any error either on saving the Elementor model or while going on my online page where the actualized title is supposed to be displayed.
It doesn’t look like an error, it really looks like it’s just not saving in the right place and displaying this save.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I checked the updateMeta route on your website and it seems to be working fine.
It is a bit harder for us to troubleshoot further without actually having a closer look at the issue.
Would it be possible for you to create a staging website and replicate the issue there and share its logins so that we can perform the troubleshooting there and your live website doesn’t get affected by the troubleshooting?
You may follow this article to create the staging website: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello there,
Sorry for the delay.
I actually duplicated the site on a subdomain.
Tell me if that’s good enough to see what you need to see.
I’m editing the sensitive Data.
Hello,
We checked the staging website and can see that the updateMeta route is working as intended so all the changes are saving fine and that’s not an issue.
Regarding the page title and description for the pages, that is taken in the following order:
1. Custom meta description and title set for the post.
2. Description templates set in Titles & Meta settings in Rank Math for the “Pages”.
3. Post excerpt.
4. The first paragraph of the content in the post.
So, when trying to set the titles and descriptions for your pages you need to control that not with the template but with the pages where the template is going to appear.
Hope this helps clarify your doubts.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Thanks for your answer.
In the list of things taken in consideration to define the page title, you do not talk about the actual title and description template I set up on the Elementor page model.
“So, when trying to set the titles and descriptions for your pages you need to control that not with the template but with the pages where the template is going to appear.”
The whole problem is that I’m trying to have a place where I can set up the variable for my title, so when I have 40 pages based on this variable, I can change it only one time so it appear on the 40 pages.
That’s what I was trying to do with setting up the title and meta description of the Elementor model.
Do you know how can I do that ?
Hello,
The titles are controlled either in the pages directly or from the global settings from WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Pages.
The SEO title you set on Elementor templates won’t apply to pages where that template is in.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Alright, thanks for this precision.
Do you have a solution for what I’m trying to do actually ?
Because I’m still trying to have a variable for the title and description on multiple pages.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
