Unable to Remove Meta Description in Rank Math

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the meta description on your website. It sounds like you’ve done a thorough job troubleshooting this problem. Since the meta description is still appearing even after disabling Rank Math and checking various files and caches, it may be coming from your theme or another plugin that is not related to SEO.

Here are a few steps you can take to further investigate:

1. Check Your Theme Settings: Some themes have their own SEO settings that might override or add meta descriptions. Look for any SEO-related settings in your theme options.

2. Inspect Other Plugins: Even though you’ve disabled other SEO plugins, there might be other plugins that could be adding meta descriptions. Consider disabling all non-essential plugins temporarily to see if the description disappears.

3. Use a Code Snippet: If you suspect a specific theme or plugin is adding the meta description, you can try adding a code snippet to remove it. For example, if you identify the source, you can use a filter to remove it.

4. Check for Custom Code: If you have any custom code added via a code snippets plugin or in your theme’s functions.php file, review that as well.

5. Contact Your Theme Developer: If you suspect the theme is responsible but cannot find the source, reaching out to the theme developer for support may be helpful.

If you’re still unable to resolve the issue after trying these steps, please reply to this ticket with any additional findings, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.

Thank you for raising this concern!

Hello,

Rank Math doesn’t store the meta description anywhere in your website files.

Please note that some themes or WordPress itself generate basic SEO elements such as the Meta Description. Our plugin will only override that so removing Rank Math’s meta description will still show the meta tag in the source code.

With that said you may use this filter code below to forcibly remove the Rank Math meta description but this will unlikely remove all the meta descriptions:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', '__return_false');

You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Also, since you have duplicate meta descriptions on your website, here’s also a guide you can follow: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-duplicate-meta-tags/

Hope that helps.