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title: "Google removed FAQ rich results. What to do with your FAQ schema"
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date: 2026-11-10
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description: "Google no longer shows FAQ rich results in Search. What that means for FAQPage markup on WordPress, and what to keep."
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# Google removed FAQ rich results. What to do with your FAQ schema

If your WordPress posts carry FAQ schema because you expected a question-and-answer result under your listing in Google, that result no longer appears. Google stopped showing FAQ rich results in May 2026 and removed the feature's documentation in June. [1][2]

## What Google changed

- **May 2026:** Google's changelog says it is deprecating the FAQ rich result feature. It says the feature "will no longer appear in Google Search starting May 7, 2026." [1]

- **June 15, 2026:** Google removed the documentation for the FAQ rich result feature. The FAQPage page now redirects to the updates page. [1][2]

The entries we read do not name a replacement. They do not say FAQPage markup is harmful. They say the feature is no longer shown. [1]

## What does not change

Your FAQ answers are still text on the page. Readers can still read them. Google's guidance for AI features asks site owners to keep structured data matching the visible text on the page. [3] So the markup should describe questions and answers that are on the page, and nothing else.

## What to do

- **Keep the FAQ on the page if readers use it.** Google's changes do not ask you to remove useful text.

- **Keep FAQPage markup only if it matches the visible text.** Remove any question that is not on the page. Update the markup when you edit an answer.

- **Do not add FAQPage markup to get a Google result.** Google no longer shows that result for FAQ.

- **We do not know whether other systems use FAQPage markup.** Google's pages do not say, and we have no source that does. Do not plan a post around an answer you have not seen.

## Check your own posts

Open a post that has FAQ markup. Compare the questions in the JSON-LD with the questions on the page. In RankReady, FAQPage is output only when the post has FAQs. [4] Look for two things: questions in the markup that are not on the page, and answers you edited on the page but not in the markup.

## Where Pro fits

- **Free:** generate FAQs post by post, with no monthly cap. Generation uses your own AI provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or DeepSeek). [4][5]

- **Pro:** generate FAQs automatically on publish, regenerate them in bulk across the archive, and use HowTo and ItemList schema and custom post types. [4][6]

- **Price:** RankReady Pro is $49 once for one site, or $99 once for up to 100 sites. Both are a single payment with no renewal and a 14-day money-back guarantee. [7]

You do not need Pro to keep FAQ text and FAQPage markup on the posts you generate by hand. [5][6]

Related: [structured data in WordPress](/structured-data-wordpress/) and [what each schema type does](/schema-markup-guide-ai/).

## Sources

- Google Search Central, "Updates" changelog: entry "Deprecating the FAQ rich result feature" (May 2026) and entry "Removed documentation for the FAQ rich result feature" (June 15, 2026). [https://developers.google.com/search/updates](https://developers.google.com/search/updates) (read 2026-11-04).

- Google Search Central, FAQPage structured data page. Now a 301 redirect to [1]. [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage) (read 2026-11-04).

- Google Search Central, "AI features and your website", section "SEO best practices". [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) (read 2026-11-04).

- RankReady docs, "How to add Article and Speakable schema" (last updated Oct 15, 2026). Four JSON-LD types, FAQPage "when the post has FAQs"; HowTo and ItemList are Pro. [https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/add-article-speakable-schema/](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/add-article-speakable-schema/)

- RankReady docs, "How to add FAQ schema to WordPress". FAQ generation needs an AI provider key. [https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/how-to-add-faq-schema-wordpress/](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/how-to-add-faq-schema-wordpress/)

- RankReady docs, "What is in RankReady Free, and what Pro adds" (last updated Oct 15, 2026). Manual generation unlimited in Free; automatic generation on publish and bulk regeneration are Pro. [https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/rankready-free-vs-pro/](https://hostmy.blog/docs/rankready/rankready-free-vs-pro/)

- RankReady plugin page, pricing. [https://hostmy.blog/plugins/rankready/](https://hostmy.blog/plugins/rankready/) (read 2026-11-04).