I can’t edit the meta description of the homepage of my website

  • Resolved Martin

    (@allisonochuko)


    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hello, 
    I use Divi Extra them and Yoast SEO on my website. I am unable to determine the title and description for the homepage by editing the homepage itself as instructed by Yoast. The reason is because the homepage does not have the Yoast SEO settings unlike other pages and posts on the website. I want to update it but there’s no way this could be done. Please I need your support in editing my site’s homepage meta data.

    Note: I am using Divi Extra theme.
    The meta description can be edited with the pages and posts but it’s not working with the custom homepage.

    I want to update the meta description to the following “QuietYearning is committed to inspiring you to be the best version of yourself. We bring you expert relationship advice and wellness options.”

    Thanks for looking into it.

    • This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Martin.

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  • Plugin Support Mushrit Shabnam

    (@611shabnam)

    Hi @allisonochuko

    When you edit the custom homepage, do you see Yoast SEO sidebar? If yes, can you kindly check the Search appearance tab from the Yoast SEO sidebar?

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    The custom post doesn’t have Yoast SEO sidebar.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    It seems you already switched to another SEO plugin. We’ll mark the topic here as resolved.

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    Hi Maybellyne, thanks for writing. I switched as I didn’t get a response for quite sometime. I can switch back if there is a solution.

    Edit: Switched back. Looking forward to your feedback. Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 1 month ago by Martin.
    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Thanks for switching back to Yoast SEO, @allisonochuko.

    Could you share a screenshot of what you have in WordPress > Yoast SEO > Settings > Content Types > Homepage. You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image-sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    Hi Maybelleyne, thanks for your response. Here is the link to the image: https://snipboard.io/etgz5J.jpg

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Thanks for the helpful screenshot. When you click, editing the homepage itself, what do you get?

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    The “editing the homepage itself” is unclickable. Nothing happens when I click it.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    If nothing happens when you click, I suspect your homepage is not a regular WordPress page but might be a theme template page or using FSE (fullsite editing). If this is the case, Yoast SEO meta box isn’t available.

    One more check, are you able to identify your homepage in WordPress > Pages > All Pages? If yes, are you able to click Edit there?

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    Thanks for your quick response.

    My homepage is not in WordPress > Pages > All Pages. You’re right, it is a theme template from Divi.
    Every other page in WordPress > Pages > All Pages and every page in WordPress > Posts > All Posts have the Yoast SEO meta box except this.

    Note: But I was able to edit this using a different plugin. I would so much love to use Yoast instead. I hope this can be fixed.

    • This reply was modified 1 month ago by Martin.
    Plugin Support Mushrit Shabnam

    (@611shabnam)

    Hi @allisonochuko

    Thank you for the suggestion. I have added your feedback in an internal repository for our plugin to have better compatibility with DIVI.

    What’s next?
    Our product team will assess the feature request and assign a priority level to the report. Our developers work on the highest priority issues first. We cannot give you an estimate of when or if they’ll start working on the request.

    If you have any further information that may affect the prioritization, please feel invited to reply to this forum topic, and we’ll share the information with our product team.

    Thread Starter Martin

    (@allisonochuko)

    Thank you Mushrit. I appreciate the feedback.

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