How to remove Date from Meta Description on SERP?

distro_dave

I noticed on a few recent projects the Date is displaying in the Meta Description for all Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress. I was always under the impression the Date would usually show for 'Posts', which has always made sense. Then for Pages and Taxonomies - which would normally be evergreen content in most scenarios NO date would appear when seeing the snippet on a SERP. I use the Genesis Framework and Yoast SEO for most projects...

Originally asked by Tom25 on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

If anyone else encounters this, check your source code and try and find the date in question to see where it's being inputted, Googlebot normally finds these dates there. It turned out the Googlebot was picking up a date in the footer of my site, via the WordPress Latest Posts Widget, where I had selected the option to feature the Post date. Resulting in this date showing in the source code of every page throughout the site.

Full answer by Tom25: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/218123 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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