noodp still there

You should be able to uncheck the checkbox on SEO -> Titles & Metas -> Other to remove the noodp meta. Can you please confirm it’s unchecked?

After you unchecked it, please clear your website’s cache.
If it’s still there, please post the link to the page you’re seeing this problem on.

I can confirm this (posted after update to 3.0) https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/noodp-meta?replies=1

Checked or unchecked noodp meta still wite wide .

Sure I cleaned cleared everything what is possible, even my desk ??

I’m also experiencing this issue.

If it’s still there, please post the link to the page you’re seeing this problem on.

To achieve what exactly? It’s still there, just believe me.

I, too, am experiencing this issue. The “Add noodp meta robots tag sitewide” checkbox is UNCHECKED on 61 individual and multi-site/multi-network blogs I administer, and every single one still has the same meta tag added:

<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>

@darrencss, I believe you it’s there. No doubt.
What I would like to see is what version of the JavaScript-files is loaded, to check if something might be messed up there.

Why? Because I have a hard time reproducing this issue on my testing environment, so I want to compare as much as possible.

@tacoverdo

OK, I have several sites all on genesis themes and the issue is replicated on all sites to a varying degree.

This is an example where some pages have the issue and some don’t. Cache has been fully refreshed.
https://decoratingadvice.co.uk/

@tacoverdo: Look at line 1250 in inc/class-frontend.php

$this->add_robot_content_noodp( $this->metadesc );

and at lines 1892 in same file:

private function add_robot_content_noodp( $description ) {
	if ( ! ( empty( $description )  ) && $this->options['noodp'] === false ) {
		$this->options['noodp'] = true;
	}
}

The setting of checkbox is overridden there if a description is saved.

So the described bug might be “a feature”…

I’ve checked this with Joost himself and it’s indeed a feature. Let me quickly explain why it’s there.

First of all, read this article to get an idea of what noodp does.
So when you’ve set a specific meta description, you probably did that because you want that meta description to show in the Google Search Results. So it makes sense to disable using meta descriptions from external sources.

And that’s exactly what Yoast SEO does by setting the noodp robots meta.

@tacoverdo
So what you’re saying, effectively, is this isn’t going to be changed?

Yes.

Thanks and goodbye.

@darrencss: You could work around this undocumented feature with the undocumented filter wpseo_robots or roll back to 2.x

@ov3rfly
Thanks for that. It isn’t a big issue – just one more unwanted feature to contend with.

Hi there,

I’m using the latest version 3.0.7 and still met same the problem. I’m just a newbie. Anyone help me if I use the value “noodp” for the robots meta. Google bot will not crawl my website?

Thank you.