Currently this plugin displays excerpt only if excerpt field was filled by user. It would be great if you could add ability (checkbox in plugin’s settings) to decide if we want to enable inserting default WordPress’ auto-generated excerpts too.

Hi,

this plugin is compatible with WPML for example, I need to add meta descriptions in italian, main language, but also in the other languages of our shop

regards

If you want to copy your meta descriptions from Yoast to post excerpt you can use SQL.

To compare excerpt and Yoast mesta description:

SELECT t1.ID, t1.post_title, t1.post_excerpt, t2.meta_key, t2.meta_value
FROM wp_posts AS t1 
	INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS t2 ON t1.ID = t2.post_id
	WHERE t2.meta_key = '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc'

And to copy from Yoast to excerpt:

UPDATE wp_posts as t1 INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS t2 ON t1.ID = t2.post_id
SET t1.post_excerpt = t2.meta_value
WHERE t2.meta_key = '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc'

I read through the source code (very nice and readable btw!). I noticed that you check is_tag() and is_category(). I tried reading the developer reference and to me it seems that these will only match built in taxonomies (tags and categories). So it seems that the plugin cannot work with custom taxonomies with description enabled (is_tax()). Is that correct?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by gabbsmo.

Hi,

Does this plugin work alongside Yoast SEO?
If there are discrepancies in the meta-description definition of product pages (woocommerce), which meta description gets used?

Thanks,
S

Hey! This morning, the plugin auto-updated to 5.9, but then caused a fatal error, so I had to deactivate the plugin. From what I can see in my error log, it has to do with this call to an undefined (WooCommerce?) function: is_shop().

*The error:*

2020/12/09 10:28:14 [error] 22592#22592: *321230 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_shop() in /var/www/.../wp-content/plugins/very-simple-meta-description/vsmd.php:59
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/.../wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): vsmd_meta_description()
#1 /var/www/.../wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#2 /var/www/.../wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action()
#3 /var/www/.../wp-includes/general-template.php(3009): do_action()
#4 /var/www/.../wp-content/themes/i.d-Website/header.php(55): wp_head()
#5 /var/www/.../wp-includes/template.php(730): require_once('/var/www/studie...')
#6 /var/www/.../wp-includes/template.php(676): load_template()
#7 /var/www/.../wp-includes/general-template.php(48): locate_template()
#8 /var/www/.../wp-content/themes" while reading response header from upstream, client: 80.xxx.xxx.xx, server: www.studieverenigingid.nl, request: "GET /... HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock:", host: "studieverenigingid.nl"

I’m on WP 5.5, PHP 7.4, using Nginx.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by fmjansen.

Dear,

I got a good improvement in page checking with META description in almost any page.

The only page I am missing the META description is in the shop page (slug is “mercato” in my website).

Can you check?

Love the idea of and execution of this plugin…. the only thing is that I need to insert a meta description for woo product archive pages. There’s no excerpt, so is it possible? Thanks.

I′m using WordPress 5.01 and can′t find the Excerpt box when editing a page. Is there a problem with the plug-in or me?

Hi,
I have a problem, why the description doesn’t appear while I activated this plugins ???

Thank you

I love this plugin, but it generates a warning on the front end when used with php 7.2:

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in C:\xampp\htdocs\testing\wp-includes\post-template.php on line 284

Hi there,

do you collect and save any data of websites which uses your plugin? Is it GDPR ready? Thank you very much.

Google allows now a longer version of the meta description. Please see the article link below. 320 max is possible now. It would be great if you would update your 160 character limit to 320.

https://www.bkacontent.com/google-raises-search-results-snippets-from-160-to-320-characters/

When I check the box titled “Use custom post excerpt as meta description” the resulting meta tag contains HTML markup, which causes layout errors in my pages. Here is an example:

<meta name="description" content="It's like a pattern or something...&hellip; <p class="more-link"><a href="https://cutetropolis.com/2016/09/25/eye-blink-theyre-trying-to-tell-us-something/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>" />

When I uncheck “Use custom post excerpt as meta description” all of the above markup disappears, so your plugin must be the one inserting it.