Custom Post Description with excerpt

Hi Lexx,

Thanks!

There are a few ways to determine an automated description, one of which is by adding the (partial) excerpt into it. It has been a decision made in version 2.5.2 and will be expanded upon in 2.6.0 with options.

However, there are several ways you can determine the description, in order (this order will stay in 2.6.0):

1. Filters (advanced)
2. Manual description
3. Excerpt
4. First 155 non-shortcode characters, trimming exceeding words.

This means you can solve the problem you’re facing by adding a custom description, as it takes precedence over the excerpt.

I hope this clears things up. If this isn’t what you were hoping to hear, let me know on how I can improve by maybe even adding a feature to achieve what you wish :).

Thanks and have a great day!

Thank you for the response. Those methods you mentioned mean that a have to edit description field manually each time? The problem is i don’t want to have any description for my posts at all, while i want to enjoy all other features of this plugin. I’m looking for a way to completely disable all automated descriptions (e.g i submit or imported post – i have empty description field automatically).

Hi Lexx,

I understand.

Here’s the filter you’re looking for:

add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_enable_auto_description', '__return_false' );

This will change the description output as such:

1. Filters (advanced)
2. Manual description

If no description is found, the tag won’t be output.

If you require help using filters, please refer to this tutorial.

I hope this helps!

It works! Exactly what i needed, thank you. Is there any chance this will be included in next versions, as official feature (checkbox or something)?

Hi Lexx,

That’s great to hear! ??

It has yet to be decided if that will become a feature, there are so many already :). It’s quite a circumstantial feature as well, until now you’re the first asking for such. A feature voting board has yet to be developed as well.

I do have a “filter plugin” extension in mind; where most, if not all, filters are put into options. Including the one mentioned.

Alas, I currently have my hands full on 2.6.0, on which I unfortunately keep pushing the release date.

I hope this clears things up.
I’m marking this topic as resolved, let me know if you require any further assistance!

Have a great day :).