Duplicated Meta descriptions for categories

I’m having the same issue at the moment.

Multiple pages and the canonical url is on every page the same, which is the first page.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Wendihihihi.

same here,

the full Yoast code is duplicated 2 times on every page and post.

This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v5.4 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<!-- Admin only notice: this page doesn't show a meta description because it doesn't have one, either write it for this page specifically or go into the SEO -> Titles menu and set up a template. -->
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.seodevs.com/" />
<script type='application/ld+json'>{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebSite","@id":"#website","url":"https:\/\/www.seodevs.com\/","name":"Seo Devs | Seo Specialist | WhiteHat SEO Tutorials","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https:\/\/www.seodevs.com\/?s={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}</script>
<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->

then again on line 99

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v5.4 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<!-- Admin only notice: this page doesn't show a meta description because it doesn't have one, either write it for this page specifically or go into the SEO -> Titles menu and set up a template. -->
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.seodevs.com/" />
<script type='application/ld+json'>{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebSite","@id":"#website","url":"https:\/\/www.seodevs.com\/","name":"Seo Devs | Seo Specialist | WhiteHat SEO Tutorials","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https:\/\/www.seodevs.com\/?s={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}</script>
<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->

both exactly the same code. using the latest wordpress along with the latest yoast. I have uninstalled all plugins to make sure there was no conflict. seems there is an issue with Yoast.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by maltonge.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by maltonge.

@algeriedeals To fix duplicate meta tags, we’d recommend adding the page number to the meta description as this KB article explains: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-fix-duplicate-meta-tags/#subpages

@wendihihihi and @maltonge You seem to have encountered different issues, can you please open a new request? That way it’s easier to track issues and provide assistance. Thanks!

Hello,

I added a page number but I am still getting the same error message.
Here is the settings:

Ad Categories (ad_cat)
Title template: %%term_title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template: %%ad_cat_description%%% %%page%%

I am using custom posts with custom categories.

Thank you