[Plugin: CategoryTinymce] Descriptions showing up twice

Hi Jaxonk

As you say this is a clash with either a plugin or theme.

what is happening is that something is pulling in your category description to be used as the meta description snippet for search engines etc. The formatting will break some of the description out of the meta tag format – which is why you are seeing a part of the category description at the top of the page.

it may be a SEO plugin you are using or it may be a feature that is built in to the theme.

You need to use a seo plugin that allows you to manually insert meta descriptions so it overrides the automatically produced one.

If you are using a seo plugin have a look to see if it gives you the option to put in your own description. If it does not or if its something that is automted by the theme you are using then try the seo plugin I use.

SEO Ultimate will allow you to set manual meta descriptions for pages, caegories etc and this should deal with the conflict.

Kevin

Hey there Kevin,

Thanks a ton for prompt and thorough response. I did not have any SEO plugins activated while this problem, was occurring and I did try deactivating other plugins that seemed like potential culprits to no avail. All this points to a theme conflict I imagine.

So, I tried installing SEO Ultimate as per your recommendation and set a custom meta description for Ecuador Accommodations (the link mentioned before). Unfortunately, this did not fix the issue though. Now, when I look at the source code for the page, I just see two name=”description”. First is the broken/long one, second is the custom one I added with SEO Ultimate.

So, this is a no-go still. GeoTheme is a big, fancy theme with lots of built-in features. I know my way around the code a bit, but there is tons that I am still figuring out. If you are interested in finding a solution for this for the greater good, I’m more than willing to give you access to my cPanel, ftp, wp-admin, etc. I also, have a coder-friend working on finding a fix today, so maybe he’ll come up with something that you’ll then be able to implement – or maybe not. Lastly, I am going to mention this on the GeoTheme forum as well and see if they have any insights.

Any other advice would be great. Thanks again!

hi

jaxonk

if you can set me up a temporary admin access to yoursite I’ll take a look and see if I look at it later this evening.

you can send it to me at [email protected]

thanks
kevin

Thanks Kevin. Email sent.

for others who may be having the same issues.

If some of the formatiing does bot work such as paragraphs line breaks etc then normally a quick and esy fix is achived by installing tinymce advanced plugin and then ticking of the checkbox in settings to stop wordpress from automatically deleting paragraphs line brekas etc.

If you are using a theme that is automatically inserting the decription into the meta-description filed then have a look at your theme header.php and remove the automatic call to desctipion – you should just have a normal

<meta name="description" content="" />

you can then use a seo plugin such as seo ultimate to manually give you categories and taxonomies their own description which is a much better way for good search snippets than automatically calling your first 130 words of your description.

kevin

To follow up here too. A huge thanks to Kevin from ypraise. This plugin is fantastic and Kevin has been incredibly helpful and polite. Not always the case with plugin developers. I know it’s not always fun responding to tons of support requests from mostly non-paying users of your software and I really want to just give a shoutout to Kevin for being so great to work with. I also want remind everyone reading this to make donations (no matter how small) to the developers of your most loved/used plugins. If WP users don’t pick up the rate of donations quickly, we are going to loose our most valuable resource, the thousands of developers that dedicate so much time to making this the incredible platform it is today.

Thanks again and if anyone else has similar issues, feel free to respond here and might be able to advise based on my experience so far.