articleBody Schema

Hello @avcu,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

The articleBody is a valid property of the Article Schema and can be added to submit the complete article in the structured data. You can use the following filter to add the complete content as the articleBody property in the Article Schema:

add_filter( "rank_math/snippet/rich_snippet_article_entity", function( $entity ) {
$entity['articleBody'] = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_content());
return $entity;
});
Here is how to add a filter to your site:?https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you, I have one more question. Would this filter be necessary and beneficial for SEO, do I absolutely need to add it?

Hello @avcu,

Glad that helped.

According to Google, Googlebot will read the content of your post/page regardless of the presence of the articleBody property in your schema. So, it does not hold much of a value including it in your schema.

It is also not included and not required in using the Article schema that’s why we don’t add it in our pre-defined Article schema :
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article#article-types

You can check Google’s take on it as well:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/108593517/articlebody-property-in-article-type-in-ld-json-schema?hl=en

Hope that helps.

why can’t you people just add the articleBody to the schema it also helps search engine to understand the contents more.

you people should add it

Hello @ejesgist,

As we have mentioned above, the articleBody is not a required property in the Article schema, that’s why it is not included in our predefined schema.

Google also does not support the property and will still read your content regardless of its presence.

Looking forward to helping you.