Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing. If you have the ACF tool built into your theme and don’t have the Rank Math plugin installed, you won’t be able to activate Rank Math’s ACF tool. The ACF integration is a feature of the Rank Math plugin, so you would need to install and activate Rank Math to use this feature.
If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please feel free to ask.
Sources:
Should I Delete the Free Version After Installing Rank Math PRO? » Rank Math
How to Install Rank Math PRO Using Composer?
How to Upgrade to Rank Math PRO » Rank Math
How to Use ACF Fields in Schema Generator » Rank Math
Manually Install Rank Math via FTP (or SFTP) » Rank Math
I’m looking for advice on how to activate the ACF part of Rank Math if the ACF is programmed into our theme files as opposed to installed as a plugin.
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
In that case, you may have to add the ACF fields in WP Dashboard > Rank Math SEO > Titles & Meta > Listings > Custom Fields to make them readable by Rank Math’s content analysis.
If it still doesn’t work, then you will have to get in touch with your theme’s support and ask them to integrate our content analysis API into their theme: https://rankmath.com/kb/content-analysis-api/
Hope that helps.
Hello, thank you for the reply. I have Rank Math installed and activated, but when I try to activate the ACF part of Rank Math, it says on the toggle switch “Please activate the ACF plugin to use this module”. Is this not possible? Does ACF have to be installed as a plugin, as opposed to set up as part of our theme?
Hello,
To use the Rank Math ACF module the ACF plugin has to be installed but in the case that the plugin is integrated into your theme and not naturally installed, then you can follow the steps we previously shared.
Hope that helps.
Ah, thank you! I was miss reading the post. I’ll be giving all that a go. Thank you again, and Merry Christmas when it comes around!
Hello,
Please keep us updated on your progress after the provided solutions. We eagerly await your response.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
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.
