No generated meta description for posts

  • Resolved janvitos

    (@janvitos)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I noticed that my posts don’t have a default / generated meta description.

    The og:description is generated from the post’s text just fine, but NOT the meta description.

    There’s also a Yoast message in the source code saying “this page has no meta description…”

    I did not specify any meta description template since I was expecting the plugin to automatically generate a meta description from the post’s text. Is this not the case?

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @janvitos

    Thanks for reaching out about your meta description. Usually, the meta description field for a post will be blank unless you fill it in. That’s why you get the notice in the page source. The plugin doesn’t generate a meta description.

    Once you fill in the meta description, the notice will disappear. In the alternative, if your theme allows excerpts, you can use the %%excerpts%% snippet variable in the meta description field. The Yoast SEO plugin will pull the contents of the excerpt to use as a meta description.

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