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• November 10, 2015 at 5:50 am #227302
  mhote

  Member

  Post count: 394

  Hi,

  I am trying to remove the dates on google snippet but it is not working correctly.
  I already tried by adding below code to functions.php.
  add_filter( 'wpseo_show_date_in_snippet_preview', false);

  Also i found these code somewhere. Do you think this will work ?

  function remove_post_dates() {
  add_filter('the_time', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_the_time', '__return_false');
  add_filter('the_modified_time', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_the_modified_time', '__return_false');
  add_filter('the_date', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_the_date', '__return_false');
  add_filter('the_modified_date', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_the_modified_date', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_comment_date', '__return_false');
  add_filter('get_comment_time', '__return_false');
  }
  add_action('loop_start', 'remove_post_dates');

  This code might make lots of changes. So i want to make sure first.
  Can you please help me to fix this.

  Best Regards

  November 10, 2015 at 4:55 pm #227529
  Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT

  Keymaster

  Post count: 25779

  Hi,

  You need to contact WordPress Seo support, they are in better position to answer this.
  Hope you understand.

  -Rui

  December 12, 2015 at 7:03 am #235075
  mhote

  Member

  Post count: 394

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  December 14, 2015 at 11:13 am #235198
  David Martin – Support

  Moderator

  Post count: 20834

  Hi,

  To remove the date from the SERP’s, please active your child theme. Inside the child theme folder find functions.php. Inside this, copy and paste this:

  	/* POST DETAIL META
  	================================================== */
  	if ( ! function_exists( 'sf_post_detail_meta' ) ) {
  	    function sf_post_detail_meta() {
  	        global $post;
  	        $post_title = get_the_title();
  	        $post_date = get_the_date();
  	        $post_date_str = get_the_date('Y-m-d');
  	        
  	        $post_image = get_post_thumbnail_id();
  	       	$image_meta = array();
  	       	$post_image_url = $post_image_alt = "";
  	        
  	        if ( $post_image != "" ) {
  		        $post_image_meta = sf_get_attachment_meta( $post_image );
  		        if ( isset($post_image_meta) ) {
  		        	$post_image_alt = esc_attr( $post_image_meta['alt'] );
  		        } 
  		        $post_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id());
  	        }
  	        
  	        ?>
  	        
  	        <div class="article-meta hide">
  	        	<div itemprop="headline"><?php echo $post_title; ?></div>
  	        	<?php if ( $post_image != "" ) { ?>
  	        	<img itemprop="image" src="<?php echo $post_image_url; ?>" alt="<?php echo $post_image_alt; ?>"/>
  	        	<?php } ?>
  	        </div>
  	        
  	    <?php
  	    }
  	}
  	add_action( 'sf_post_article_start', 'sf_post_detail_meta', 0 );

  This will remove the line <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="<?php echo $post_date_str; ?>"><?php echo $post_date; ?></time> this is what Google uses to output the date.

  However: Google will only update their SERP’s without the date when they next crawl your site’s pages, this could take weeks or months to reflect in Google’s index.

  Thanks.

  December 20, 2015 at 10:12 am #236671
  mhote

  Member

  Post count: 394

  Worked instantly once re-submitting the index, thank you David!

  December 21, 2015 at 6:41 am #236728
  Mohammad – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 27441

  Hi,
  Great thanks to David for this code snippet.
  Mohammad

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