Want to use %%currentdate%% variable in Search Engine Title and Meta Description

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I am using both Yoast SEO and WordPress Latest Version, and there’s not any error. According to my research, Yoast currentdate variable is Deprecated variables.

Starting in v7.7 of Yoast, they’ve deprecated these variables as they see no valid use-case for them. The think, if these variables are used in the snippet editor, they won’t appear in the snippet preview.

I want to Activate this Variable to seen in snippet preview also. I have used Rankmath plugin also, and they works fine for this.. Please help me to do this with Yoast. Thank You.

Hi @amreshmishra7

You’re correct that we’ve deprecated the %%currentdate%% snippet variable in v7.7 of Yoast SEO.

The reasoning behind this is that we want to ensure that the content being written is being updated and. For example, if you wrote a top 10 list regarding travel destinations back in 2016, and you’ve used the %%currentyear%% variable without actually updating the actual content, it would show as 2021, with less than accurate information.

However, even if the variable itself won’t show up in the snippet preview, it should still output in the page source itself for the <title> tag – https://yoast.com/help/list-available-snippet-variables-yoast-seo/#deprecated-variables

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