rank-math/export-settings exports Rank Math settings as a portable payload: all panels by default, or a chosen subset of general, titles, sitemap, role-manager and redirections.
Take one before any bulk settings change so rank-math/import-settings can roll it back.
At a glance
| Ability | rank-math/export-settings |
| Toolset | Rank Math — toolset/rank-math |
| Group | Rank Math › Status, Backups & Tools |
| Requires | Rank Math SEO, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Read-only — changes nothing |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
Exporting and backing up overlap but are not the same thing. A backup lives on this site and is restored here; an export is a payload you can hold, read, diff and apply to a different site.
Which makes the export the right tool for moving a configuration between environments — staging to production, or a template site to a new build.
The subset selection matters for that use. Exporting redirections along with settings is right when cloning a site and wrong when copying a configuration to a different site, where the redirections refer to URLs that do not exist.
Being able to read it is the underrated part. A settings export is a diffable record, and comparing two of them is often the fastest way to work out what somebody changed.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
panels | array | No — defaults to all | A subset of general, titles, sitemap, role-manager and redirections. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
payload | object | The exported settings. |
panels | array | Which panels are included. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
Export our Rank Math settings so I can copy them to the new site.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "rank-math/export-settings",
"parameters": {
"panels": ["general", "titles", "sitemap"]
}
}Worth knowing
- An export travels between sites; a backup stays on this one.
- Leave redirections out when copying to a different site.
- Two exports diffed are the fastest way to see what changed.
- Read-only.
Related abilities
- Import Rank Math Settings — apply it somewhere
- Create Rank Math Settings Backup — the on-site equivalent
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