Yoast not overwriting “Just another WordPress Site”

  • Resolved ivorr

    (@ivorr)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I use Yoast to write metadescriptions for all my pages. I also, in the Theme customisation options, changed the site’s tagline so it no longer reads “Just another wordpress site.”

    However, using an analysis tool, I can see that Yoast has been adding a second Metadiscription and not overwriting the first on all pages and leaving “Just Another…” on all pages:

    e.g.

    Title
    Fog | Ivor Rackham Photography
    Meta Description
    #1
    Just another WordPress site
    #2
    Fog brings some fantastic opportunities for photography. Enjoy this gallery of photos shot on misty, moist mornings in Northumberland.

    _________________

    I can individually change that on each page and post by deleting the Yoast metadescription and then adding it to BeTheme’s SEO settings, but that does not give the same feedback as Yoast. After doing that, I would uninstall Yoast. Furthermore, this would be an enormously arduous task right across my site.

    (Also, I have noticed that the metadescription length on Yoast, although showing in green, is too long for the Google search results and invariably results in it ending “…”)

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi @ivorr,

    Thank you for reaching out.

    We checked the homepage URL you mentioned in your post (your homepage) but couldn’t find your tagline. However, when browsing through your site, we did find it. For example on your galleries page.

    However, when checking the page source, the <meta name="description" content="Just another WordPress site"/> is found outside the Yoast output. This means this is not being output by our plugin. We would like you to check your theme settings or plugins if they output this. The quickest way to find out if it’s a theme or a plugin is to temporarily switch themes. You can do this without affecting site visitors by using the Health Check plugin troubleshooting mode.

    Thread Starter ivorr

    (@ivorr)

    Got it sussed thanks to help from BeTheme devs. It’s in Theme Options, Turn Off Built in Fields.

    Thanks for your help, Jeroen

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