I have an issue with the og:description field

Hi sir,

first, I would like to thank you for your wonderful plugin. I have it installed on my Multisite network and it does provide with a very solid opengraph overall that does its jobs without annoying anybody which is great.

However, I have an issue with the description field. If the author does enter a post_excerpt or meta description it is perfect. Unfortunately if he doesn’t, it gets a little chaotic.

Your plugin will use as a description a snippet of my social sharing plugin or a voting system plugin instead of taking it straight from the content.

I actually solved that by adding a condition to the if at line 93 :

if ( isset( $post->post_type ) && post_type_supports( $post->post_type, 'excerpt' ) && $post->post_excerpt!="" ) {

It’s a good things that it checks if the feature is enabled but there needs to be something in there or it takes the data from I don’t know where but it’s wrong.

Once, I does that, it actually takes snippets from the content but if there’s a widget outputting data above the content, it gets in the way. I beleive that no content that is in shortcode are being description worthy.

I fixed it by updating those lines :

$content = strip_shortcodes($post->post_content);
//$content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $content );

So really, it’s your call. I guess I’m asking you if you could update your plugin. Otherwise, I might fork it as a personnal plugin for my need but I don’t want to get there as I want your sweet update in the future.

Regards,

Mathieu

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