Remove article:modified_time Meta Tag

Hi @ekesto

You can use wpseo_frontend_presenters filter to remove the Article_Modified_Time_Presenter from the page source.

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Please know that, Google may still show the date in the search results even if the the date-related meta tags and schema are removed from your page source.

Hi Mushrit,

thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

For anyone interested in the solution of this specific case: I’ll post the code here (works with v24.4):

function remove_canonical_presenter($presenters) {
    return array_map(function ($presenter) {
        if (!$presenter instanceof Yoast\WP\SEO\Presenters\Open_Graph\Article_Modified_Time_Presenter) {
            return $presenter;
        }
    }, $presenters);
}

add_action('wpseo_frontend_presenters', 'remove_canonical_presenter');

This displays all but the modified time meta tag.

I had to use the class name including namespace to make it work.

Best wishes!

Thank you Ekesto, but in my Open Graph markup there is still a modified time, version 24.4

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Sam Smith.

@gepotenuz , the code above removes <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2025-01-24T09:20:39+00:00" /> in my case.

By the way, for more clarity I would rename the callback function from remove_canonical_presenter into custom_theme_remove_article_modified_time_presenter.

The published and modified date is still in the <script type="application/ld+json" class="yoast-schema-graph"> script, but this is not shown when sharing a website or post in messaging apps, which was what I was looking for.

Good luck!

Thanks