Data not visible in WP back-end

  • Resolved bekee

    (@bekee)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hello! I have a WPMU install and work in a GIT repo to make changes to our plugins, etc. I installed Add Meta Tags locally and network activated the plugin, pushed changes to dev and saw that it successfully generated descriptions for a handful of pages. We deployed to prod, tested and went on.

    While looking into a different issue recently, I found that the description and keyword (where manually entered) fields are blank on all pages in production, but the source of the pages shows the populated tags as expected.

    I’m not sure when this happened, because the plugin was installed in June ’14, and I didn’t check this with each subsequent upgrade release.

    Any information would be great, thanks!

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  • Plugin Author George Notaras

    (@gnotaras)

    Hi bekee,

    If I understand this correctly, the custom description and keywords, which had been entered manually in the relevant boxes in the ‘Metadata’ metabox in the post editing screen, exist as expected in the html source of the post, but the relevant boxes are blank in subsequent views of the post’s editing screen?

    I don’t have an explanation for this behavior… The same function that retrieves the custom description from the custom field is also used by the function that generates the description meta tag.

    The changes that have taken place during the last releases and affect the metabox are:

    1. The ability to enable or disable any of its features (description, keywords, title, full meta tags, etc) directly from the plugin’s configuration screen.
    2. The ability to control the availability of any metabox features according to the user’s capabilities. The default check should not affect any user that has access to the post editing screen, but can be changed programmatically via a filter.

    Currently, I cannot check it in a WPMU installation. Do you also encounter the same behavior in the development web site?

    George

    Thread Starter bekee

    (@bekee)

    Thanks for your response! You’ve described the issue better than I did. ??

    I think I might have figured out what is going on. I believe that I assumed when a meta description is automatically generated, that it would also populate in the back end description field.

    If this is expected behavior, then I apologize for taking up your time.

    Plugin Author George Notaras

    (@gnotaras)

    No worries. This is by design. The auto-generated descriptions are not saved, so as not to store duplicate data. Only manual descriptions are stored in the database.

    I’m marking the topic as resolved. Thanks for your feedback.

    Kind Regards,
    George

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