Duplicate Meta description in custom post type – Recipes

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us and sorry for the inconvenience caused.

You should check the settings of your theme and if there is no option to disable their description then we can’t help you with removing that as this is something that can be managed by their developers.

If you want to remove the description of our plugin, please use the following filter:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', function( $description ) {
	if (get_post_type() == 'recipe') { //replace recipe with the correct name of the post type
		return false;
	}
	return $description;
});;

Here is how to add a filter to your site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

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

Hi there,

Thank you for getting back to us.

You should be able to modify this filter to work for only specified post IDs. You can do that by using the get_the_ID() function, which returns the ID of the current item in the WordPress loop. You can find more information about this function here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_id/

To use this function, you need to find the post IDs of the posts you want to exclude. You can get the ID of your posts by editing the post and looking at the URL for the post id. Like this:

For example, if you want to remove the description for posts with IDs 123, 456, and 789, you can use this code:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', function( $description ) {
	$post_id = get_the_ID(); //get the current post ID
	$target_ids = array(123, 456, 789); //set an array of the target post IDs
	if (get_post_type() == 'recipe' && in_array($post_id, $target_ids)) { //check if the current post type is recipe and if the current post ID is in the target array
		return false; //remove the description
	}
	return $description; //return the original description
});

You can modify this code to suit your needs by changing the post type and the target IDs. Try this code and let us know if it works for you.

We hope this helps. If you have any other questions or concerns regarding Rank Math, please feel free to contact us again.

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