I need to remove datePublished and dateModified from the Schema

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that. We deeply apologize for the delay in response.

As you don’t want to show your post’s date on Google SERPs, here are some reference below that may help you to understand on what you need to do in this case.

According to Google’s John Mueller it is useful to check out your published HTML page and in your browser select to “view code” in order to see if there’s something there that is sending date information to Google.

And if you find some published date information in the HTML code that you don’t want published in Google’s SERPs then the next step would be to find out what’s part of your code is generating that date and remove it.

According to our examination on this matter, we could interpret that search engines display dates when they’re clearly visible inside the content. Hence to completely remove the date from SERP, we request you to get in touch with your theme provider.

Here’s a URL below for your reference:
https://rankmath.com/kb/remove-dates-from-search/#num-2-1-visible-date-inside-the-content

In short, removing those in Schema does not usually guarantee that Google will stop showing the date from the SERPs, but you may try following the guide and reference mentioned above to learn how you can achieve that.

However, if you still wish to remove datePublished and dateModified from the Schema for specific posts on your site, you may try applying the following filter

add_filter( 'rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity', function( $entity ) {
	
	global $post;
	$remove_ids = array(1,2,3); // Replace 1,2,3 with your post ID(s)
	
	if(!empty($post->ID) && is_numeric($post->ID) && in_array((int)$post->ID, $remove_ids)){
		unset( $entity['datePublished'] );
		unset( $entity['dateModified'] );
	}
    return $entity;
} );

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

Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.

Hello,

Please try replacing the old code snippet with the following one to see if that works for you:

add_filter( 'rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity', function( $entity ) {
	global $post;
	$remove_ids = array(1,2,3); // Replace 1,2,3 with your post ID(s)
	
	if(!empty($post->ID) && is_numeric($post->ID) && in_array((int)$post->ID, $remove_ids)){
		unset( $entity['datePublished'] );
		unset( $entity['dateModified'] );
	}
    return $entity;
} );

add_filter( 'rank_math/json_ld', function( $data, $jsonld ) {
	global $post;
	$remove_ids = array(1,2,3); // Replace 1,2,3 with your post ID(s)
	
	if(!empty($post->ID) && is_numeric($post->ID) && in_array((int)$post->ID, $remove_ids)){
		unset ($data['WebPage']['dateModified']);
		unset ($data['WebPage']['datePublished']);
	}
	return $data;
}, 99, 2);

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

Thank you.

Hello,

Sure! Let us know how it goes.

Meanwhile, please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.