WPBakery Images are not indexed

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  • Resolved Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    Guys, looks like Rank Math is not indexing images from WPBakery content blocks. It’s working fine on classic editor but since my theme is using WPBakery page builder (content blocks etc) I have zero images in the sitemap. This is a serious issue affecting SEO. Any plans to fix that?

    • This topic was modified 5 years ago by Tom Robak.
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  • Michael Davis
    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Can you confirm that the attachment post type is enabled on the Rank Math settings? You can check this by heading over to Rank Math > Sitemap settings > Media.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business
    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    Looks like there is many people struggling with that – I just found plenty of topics in google about Rank Math not working nice with WPBakery images (which is a leading page builder – so looks like massive amount of people are affected but they didn’t discover that yet)

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by Tom Robak.
    Michael Davis
    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for the response.

    Are you using WP Bakery modules like Post Grid, Post Slider etc? Please note, the Content analysis only analyzes the content which is in the post_content filed in a wp_posts table. The Post grid and Post slider modules are the shortcodes which show the latest posts, the content of these posts is not included in the Content analysis.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    this is how visual builders work. I migrated from other seo plugin Y. That plugin was absolutely fine. Now we are talking about indexing images, so would be good to hear what is fixing plan for that – otherwise Rank Math won’t be helpful to thousands of people

    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    ps. talking about indexing in google, not content analyse – so don’t get me wrong

    Michael Davis
    Rank Math pro

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for the follow up.

    Our developers are currently working on an API that will fix this but we do not yet have an ETA for when this will be available.
    Please note that it is really not important for images to appear on sitemaps since Google will find them in the content regardless of whether they appear on the sitemap or not.

    I hope this info helps.

    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    you are right, but the reason I am asking is since started using Rank Math (approx 3 weeks) I discovered today that thousands of my images were deindexed… nothing else changed, so Rank Math is the reason…

    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    I just found on WordPress forum that over a month ago the same reply Rank Math support gave to similar question.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8bcrzl8cfw9y6h/Screenshot%202019-04-12%2017.09.30.jpg?dl=0

    So looks like you know the issue/bug and you didn’t address that yet.

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by Tom Robak. Reason: link added
    Michael Davis
    Rank Math pro

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for writing back.

    Do you think you could grab us some temporary admin access to your site so that we can check whether a different issues is causing this on your site?
    Please edit the sensitive data section and enter your credentials to prevent unauthorized access.

    I am looking forward to helping you.

    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    absolutely, sending now – please check last position in the sitemap (first blog post)

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9iycc36n8sne0f/Screenshot%202019-04-12%2020.45.44.jpg?dl=0

    https://www.tomrobak.com/wedding-in-tuscany-borgo-di-colleoli-resort/

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by Tom Robak.
    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    also pages sitemap zero images (all pages done via wpbakery) 🙁

    Todd
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    We are so sorry. We have been able to replicate this and our dev. team has been made aware of this issue.

    We are working on a fix and will have an update for you within the week.

    I would really appreciate your patience in this matter.

    Hello,

    Upon checking further, it seems like WPBaakery added a code in their plugin to make Yoast compatible.

    Can you please contact them to add the support for the Rank Math plugin as well?

    In the meantime, you can add the following code in your theme’s functions.php file to make the images count appear in the Sitemaps:

    add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/urlimages', function( $images, $id ){
        if ( empty( $images ) ) {
            $post = get_post( $id );
            if ( $post && strpos( $post->post_content, '[vc_row' ) !== false ) {
                preg_match_all( '/(?:image|images|ids|include)\=\"([^\"]+)\"/', $post->post_content, $matches );
                foreach ( $matches[1] as $m ) {
                    $ids = explode( ',', $m );
                    foreach ( $ids as $id ) {
                        if ( (int) $id ) {
                            $images[] = array(
                                'src' => wp_get_attachment_url( $id ),
                                'title' => get_the_title( $id ),
                                'alt' => get_post_meta( $id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true),
                            );
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    
        return $images;
    }, 10, 2 );

    Please let us know if that resolves the issue.

    Thank you.

    Tom Robak
    Rank Math business

    for posts yes… on pages still no images :/

    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.

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