Urgent Help Needed!

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Rank Math support.

I understand that you have over 2k pages and setting a focus keyword for each one manually can be a lot of work. Don’t worry, I have a solution for you. You can use some simple code to do this automatically.

All you need to do is copy and paste one of the code snippets below into your theme’s functions.php or rank-math.php file. The code will run through all your pages and set the page title as the focus keyword.

The first code snippet will replace any focus keywords that you have already set manually. Use this if you want to start fresh and use only the page titles as your focus keywords.

The second code snippet will check if a page has a focus keyword already and leave it alone. Use this if you want to keep your existing focus keywords and only update the pages that don’t have one.

Here are the code snippets:

// Automatically set the page title as the focus keyword
function update_focus_keywords() {
  $posts = get_posts( array(
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'page' //replace page with the name of your post type
  ));
  foreach ($posts as $p) {
    // Get the post title
    $post_title = get_the_title( $p->ID );
    // Set the post title as the focus keyword
    update_post_meta( $p->ID, 'rank_math_focus_keyword', $post_title );
  }
}
add_action( 'init', 'update_focus_keywords' );

// Automatically set the page title as the focus keyword, if no focus keyword is set
function update_focus_keywords() {
  $posts = get_posts( array(
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'page' //replace page with the name of your post type
  ));
  foreach ($posts as $p) {
    // Checks if Rank Math keyword already exists and only updates if it doesn't have it
    $rank_math_keyword = get_post_meta( $p->ID, 'rank_math_focus_keyword', true );
    if ( ! $rank_math_keyword ) {
		// Get the post title
		$post_title = get_the_title( $p->ID );
		// Set the post title as the focus keyword
		update_post_meta( $p->ID, 'rank_math_focus_keyword', $post_title );
	}
  }
}
add_action( 'init', 'update_focus_keywords' );

I hope this helps you achieve what you want. If you have any questions or need more information, please let me know. I’m always here to help.

Thank you for using Rank Math.