Remove date from search engines results

Hey,

Please try using a plugin such as this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-and-date-remover/

Regards,
Yigit

Hi,
If you are using Yoast please see this post
One issue that you may find is that Google will post any date it finds on the page and use it as the post date. The link above also has some links to some plugins that may work for you.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Try adding this code to the end of your functions.php file in Appearance > Editor:

function jl_remove_post_dates() {
	add_filter('the_date', '__return_false');
	add_filter('the_time', '__return_false');
	add_filter('the_modified_date', '__return_false');
	add_filter('get_the_date', '__return_false');
	add_filter('get_the_time', '__return_false');
	add_filter('get_the_modified_date', '__return_false');
} add_action('loop_start', 'jl_remove_post_dates');

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Do you mean that this doesn’t remove the date from the page, or that the date is still showing in Google?
Please include an admin login in the Private Content area so we can investigate.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Yes I understand that you wish to remove this from the search results, but first, we need to remove the date from the page.
But as we don’t have a link to your site I can’t confirm that this is true.

I assume that you understand that Google search results are cached and may take a few days to correct. I have also seen that Google will find any date on your site and will post that as the “post date” which is often wrong.

Please link to your page and to the search results you found so we can examine.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback, the date is in your “structured-data” Please try going to Enfold Theme Options > Layout Builder > Automated Schema.org HTML Markup and disabling.
It is also showing in your header as

meta property="article:published_time"

which I believe is from an seo plugin because it’s not in our demos, please check and deactavate.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Yes I sure that this not from Enfold, this is all of the dates in your header:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2012-02-21T13:48:40+00:00">
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-06-30T17:10:27+00:00">
<meta property="og:updated_time" content="2019-06-30T17:10:27+00:00">

To remove the structured-data datePublished from the post please try editing:
\enfold\includes\helper-markup.php
starting about line 372 look for:

if( !in_array('date', $exclude) )
		{
			$output .= "<span class='av-structured-data' {$entry_time_markup}>{$post->post_date}</span>";
		}
		
		if( !in_array('date_modified', $exclude) )
		{
			$output .= "<span class='av-structured-data' {$date_markup}>{$post->post_modified}</span>";
		}

and comment out like this:

/*if( !in_array('date', $exclude) )
		{
			$output .= "<span class='av-structured-data' {$entry_time_markup}>{$post->post_date}</span>";
		}
		
		if( !in_array('date_modified', $exclude) )
		{
			$output .= "<span class='av-structured-data' {$date_markup}>{$post->post_modified}</span>";
		}*/

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
The structured-data datePublished is from Enfold, did you find the edit above removes it?

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Sorry, I don’t think I was very clear. The “meta property” in the header is one place the date shows
But the date also shows lower in the page because of the “helper-markup.php” file
So it is in two places.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
We look forward to your results.

Best regards,
Mike