No Meta Description editor on Blog page

I added all of the code you provided earlier. I just want to edit my Meta details for my blog page.

https://www.jeroenbrugman.com

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

wp-admin/post.php?post=10&action=edit

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

I appreciate your work. I really do. But shouldn’t this just work from the plugin? by default. It has always worked.

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

I have exactly the same problem with this plugin: cooked

Just problems since version 3 of Yoast SEO. ??

I think it has something to do with this:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of null
https://www.bbq-hannover.de/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/js/wp-seo-post-scraper-302.min.js?ver=4979af8a38fc5921196a92704e3548a8:1

I just updated the Yoast SEO plugin and now also no longer have the meta description box. Which makes sure all my new posts stay ‘orange’ with the warning: you have no meta description text…yes, I knew that!
I’ve tried the various solutions here and added the code to my child theme, but this didn’t resolve it (so deleted it again to keep my theme clean) and for some reason my Dashboard does not support me to add code in the functions.php of the plugin (which I prefer: I get Method not Implemented).

So, what to do now? Delete, reinstall so I get back to the older version, or doesn’t that work either? Or does anyone know another solution? I could use rich snippet, but now I will never know if my SEO is actually decent since there’s no meta description editor anymore. And excerpt is really different, that shows on my front/blog.

kalo
https://www.thequeenssword.com

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

I don’t have server cache. As i’m on a shared hosting.

It works on normal posts but it doesn’t work in the cooked plugin. Before version 3 of Yoast it worked.

I don’t have any caching plugin.

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,

@Ginobugman, there is always a cache somewhere. But if you are not seeing what @viruz82 is seeing then that is not your problem.

@viruz82 there is a cache almost always unless you are self hosting. At least clear your client cache. I use a combination of W3 Total Cache for JS and BWP Minify for CSS as well as Mod Pagespeed so had to clear all three PLUS the client cache to get rid of the issue. As for the ‘Cooked Plugin’ I do not use it.

Now if you use custom post types, you need to add them into Yoast SEO in order for any of the SEO bits to work. If those custom post types are not in the ‘official’ list as returned by the WordPress plugin get_post_types() and a part of the then meta desc may never show up.

Are you using custom post types?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky

I only have some stuff in my htaccess and minify plugin. Nothing else tho?

@edward
I think cooked uses a custom post type.

I have edited something in class-wpseo-meta.php to get the description and the keyword back (change hidden to textarea).

But there is something more that doesn’t work correct. There’s no green, orange or red at the traffic lights, no content analysis.

Screenshot

Cheers
Kai