Page ID in title of ACF relation fields in CPT instead of page title

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your concern about displaying the Page ID instead of the Page Title in the Rank Math Title & Meta for your custom post type "Patient stories" with ACF relation fields.

To display the actual Page Title instead of the Page ID in the Rank Math Title & Meta, you can use the %title% variable. This variable will dynamically fetch and display the title of the related page instead of the ID.

You can update your Rank Math Title & Meta settings for the Patient stories CPT to: "Story from Dr %customfield(story_doctor: title)% at %customfield(story_clinic: title)%."

By using %customfield(story_doctor: title)% and %customfield(story_clinic: title)%, Rank Math will fetch and display the actual titles of the related pages instead of their IDs.

Please make this adjustment in your Rank Math settings, and it should resolve the issue you are facing with displaying the Page Titles correctly.

If you need further assistance or have any other questions, feel free to let us know.

Best regards,

Sources:
Using Variables in the SEO Title and Description » Rank Math
How to Integrate Rank Math With Advanced Custom Fields » Rank Math
How to Fix "Either ‘name’ or ‘item.name’ should be specified" Error » Rank Math
How to Use ACF Fields in Schema Generator » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

What happens here is that your custom fields allow you to choose a specific post from another post type and save the post_id as the identifier. Now, when Rank Math queries those custom fields, it retrieves the identifier which is the post_id.

In this case, you’ll have to create a custom variable that queries the information from the specific post using the post_id.

Here’s how you can create a custom variable: https://rankmath.com/kb/variables-in-seo-title-description/#how-to-add-custom-variables

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