No Meta Description editor on Blog page

This looks like a JavaScript error. Could you please check the browser’s console for any errors?

Then clear your server’s cache, followed by clearing your browser’s cache. Does that solve the issue?

Hello,

I have the same problem. I have cleared all my caches on my server as well as my browser cache. Inside the Firefox Console for JS I see no errors what so ever. Before I cleared the cache I saw a b.responseText error in wpseo…scraper.min.js but that is now gone. With on JS selected it is an empty console for the page.

Now the code does say that the metadesc is ‘hidden’ and the meta description box does have ‘wpseo_hidden’ class associated with it. Yet, I have not said to hide the metadesc.

What triggers the unhiding of metadesc?

Best regards,
Edward Haletky (www.astroarch.com)

No JS Errors here.

Same WPseohidden stuff here.

Kind of weird

In the latest Yoast SEO, does it only use the ‘Excerpt’ for the meta description editor, how can I get the other back?

So it looks like you need to expose the ‘Excerpt’ to edit the meta description. That does not work for me as I have excerpts and meta descriptions separate for a reason.

Same here, no meta description. Caches cleared, no luck.

It looks like you need to add the following code to your functions.php

function aac_metabox_entries_general($field_defs) {
        $field_defs['metadesc']['type'] = 'textarea';
        return $field_defs;
}
add_filter('wpseo_metabox_entries_general','aac_metabox_entries_general');

in order to enable the metabox once more instead of using excerpt.

Texiwill,

Your code didn’t fix the issue with the meta description box not showing.

Hello Ginobrugman,

It did on my sites. It added the Meta Description Textarea under the Focus Keyword in the ‘Content:’ tab of the Yoast SEO box on my post/page edit/create. Now, it will not work for attachments as those will be denied per the code.

It can go into your functions.php of your theme or it can go into your own plugin (I use the plugin approach to keep the themes clean).

May I suggest looking for typos?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky

I just need to edit my blog page’s meta description.

Just upgraded, and also missing the metadata description. It’s different from the excerpt, and for good reason — one shows on the front page of my blog (links, images okay, can be longer), and the other shows up in search engines (no links, brief).

We really need two fields…

@martinb3, I got back the metadesc by adding in the code above. Need to change the metadesc field from ‘hidden’ to ‘textarea’ is all, else it will use the excerpt.

@ginobrugman, not sure what to say, it worked for me. I can now edit Post and Page meta descriptions separate from the excerpt.

Texiwill’s snippet is working fine for me. Thank you.

Thanks @texiwill for providing this fix. Hopefully the Yoast team will address this issue.

Anyone has another fix? This didn’t do the trick for me

Hello @ginobrugman

Did you add it to your themes functions.php, care to share what you did add? Also, where are you looking to add Meta Descriptions? Perhaps you could also tell me the URL in use?

Best regards,
Edward Haletky