Sidebar copy in search results.

  • Resolved Ffgrf

    (@grouchyturtle)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I have a few pages that don’t have any copy in the main content area, but have text widgets in the sidebar. When they come up in search results it shows the page title, but no excerpt.

    Is there a way to make the copy from the text widgets display in the search results?

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  • I think you can solve this with Yoast and titles and metas

    Thread Starter Ffgrf

    (@grouchyturtle)

    I don’t have Yoast, but I am using All In One SEO. Just for the hell of it I tried pasting all of the copy from the page in the description box. It didn’t work. Someone else told me the WordPress’s search only pulls in copy from the content area of the editor. So meta, widgets, etc. it won’t display.

    >Is there a way to make the copy from the text widgets display in the search results?

    not that i know of

    i dont know how your seo plugin works, if you want an excerpt, a description in google search results all your pages must have a meta tag with description

    Thread Starter Ffgrf

    (@grouchyturtle)

    The difference is if you don’t have a description, Google will just pull from the copy on your page, starting from the top. I guess I’ll just have to live with it in WordPress search. It’s only 2 pages on my site anyway.

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