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Hello,

If you are interested in my function as a simple plugin please use the following link to download:

https://www.astroarch.com/virtual/aac-functions.zip

All it contains is a README (pointing back here for help) and that one function. It is what I used on my sites as I do not modify my child themes when I do not need to do so.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky

Hello,

@viruz82, please clear not only your browser cache but your server javascript caches as well. I Had a similar problem and that fixed it for me.

Edward

Hello @ginobrugman,

It was hidden for a reason I believe. Just not sure what the reason is until someone from Yoast responds. Yet, they provide a filter to modify those settings, so it is easy to override. My feeling is that the excerpt plays a stronger part in current SEO than hand created meta descs. Those two being different could cause a problem. I am not positive about that, but it makes sense.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky

Hello @ginobrugman,

It is the proper place, all I can think is that the add_filter in the code above is not firing properly. Have you looked at the error_log for your server for errors? You can verify that the code does not collide with anything else as well. You could try the following and see if anything appears in your error_log. If nothing does then I would say the apply_filter is not working.

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

Best regards,
Edward Haletky

Hello,

That is the URL to your blog, what I am interested in the URL to your edit screen, that will tell us where you need to edit the meta desc. What I added was for Posts and Pages you create. I.e those items edited from this URL https://your.domain.here/wp-admin/post.php?post=######&action=edit

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky

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

@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.

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

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.

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.

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)

So is it safe to say that this visit ID would be the same regardless of login time? I.e. if the person logs in after a bunch of page views, would those previous pages views have the same signature as the one logged in as? The reason I ask is we are trying to get PER user behavior when they do not always login.

We can continue this offline if that helps, actually it would make me more comfortable.

I use both, and wordfence is great at checking ‘known’ files against the repository, but does nothing with UNKNOWN files. I had a hacked WP that Wordfence could not find. Using the https://github.com/philipjohn/exploit-scanner-hashes/ project allowed me to generate the hashes for WP and then run a scan against ALL files. It found 20+ files with malware in them that Wordfence just missed because they were not officially part of a plugin. They were found in the upload directory as well.

So you really need both tools and exploit-scanner does not really need more than the hashes to be updated for it to work, plus one other item to make it work with W3TC and other object cache tools (it does work as expected with Tribe Object Cache however).

So I do not feel it is abandoned, plus there was a recent update. I use it, and use it effectively.

Hello,

add an action to your functions.php that hooks into sm_addurl in your function when the pdf occurs set the _url to “” or something. SOrt of like:

function my_sm_addurl($page) {
    if ($page->_url == "PDFurl") {
          $page->_url = "";
    }
}
add_action('sm_addurl','my_sm_addurl');

Ensure you do not have a blank line after your closing ?> in functions.php or any other theme file/plugin you normally edit.