This is more of an SEO question than a WordPress one… Changes won’t happen until after Google re-crawls your site – that is, the next time a googlebot visits your site and updates their information about your site. Wait for the next time they do. The rate/timing for the next googlebot crawl varies by site
Its documented.. heres a fix
This effectively removes metaboxes IF the current user is a contributor. This does not remove any admin column data ( like SEO Description and such when viewing pages ). You need to define which post types to run it on in the $post_types array which will then loop through and target specifically the aiosp metabox … Read more
Here is the solution to completely remove it’s title filter First disable “force rewrites” in “performance” Then add this code to theme “functions.php” add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘remove_aioseo_wp_title’, 1 ); function remove_aioseo_wp_title() { global $aiosp; if( isset( $aiosp ) ) { remove_filter( ‘wp_title’, array( $aiosp, ‘wp_title’ ), 20 ); } } Edit: This is the new code … Read more
There were mod_security conflicts, which my provider refused to fix for me. Moving to a VPS solved my issue!
Just change your post slug to books-keyword1-keyword2.
From what I see on that theme it would not be in header.php. It would be related in the theme since it already has an SEO optimization feature built in. You need to go through the functions.php and seek SEO and remove modify this line: $default=”global|slider|layout|seo|translations”; to $default=”global|slider|layout|translations”; Which will remove the setting to be … Read more
To remove from the admin menu, you could use remove_menu_page(): add_action( ‘admin_menu’, function ( ) { if (is_super_admin()) return; remove_menu_page(); // or remove_submenu_page( … },99); If for some reason the page still exists, it’s just missing it’s menu link, you could check the get_current_screen() to see if the page is being viewed, and prevent access: … Read more
Well I felt I better update this old question, the SEO plugin by Yoast now allows assigning of all SEO abilities to custom post type archives. So that’s the best solution.
I’d need to see your site to be sure, but there’s a very good chance it’s your theme (not WordPress itself) that’s setting the extra description field. You can remove that from your header.php file and you should be set. WordPress itself doesn’t have SEO features like that built-in.