Cannot disable "Automatic Basic Metadata"

Resolved anve
(@anve)

10 years, 10 months ago

I go to Options -> Metadata. I want to disable Automatic Basic Metadata:

Automatically generate the description meta tag for single posts, pages, category-based archives and tag-based archives. If this is unchecked, you can still set a description meta tag by using the description custom field.

Automatically generate the keywords meta tag for single posts, category-based archives and tag-based archives. Automatic keywords are not supported on pages. If this is unchecked, you can still set a keywords meta tag by using the keywords custom field.

If I uncheck these two fields and click “Save Changes” the fields are checked again. I cannot change this setting. How can I disable this?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-meta-tags/

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(@anve)

Thanks to this post I found a temporary solution. In add-meta-tags.php (wp-content/plugins/add-meta-tags) I added:

elseif ( $def_key == 'auto_description' || $def_key == 'auto_keywords' ) {
				if( !isset($_POST[$def_key]) ){
					$add_meta_tags_opts[$def_key] = 0;
				}
			}

So starting at line 177 it looks like the following:

if (isset($_POST['info_update'])) {

        // Update settings

        $add_meta_tags_opts = array();

        foreach ($default_options as $def_key => $def_value) {

            // **Always** use the <code></code>settings_version<code></code> from the defaults
            if ($def_key == 'settings_version') {
                $add_meta_tags_opts['settings_version'] = $def_value;
            }

            // Add options from the POST request (saved by the user)
            elseif ( array_key_exists($def_key, $_POST) ) {
                $add_meta_tags_opts[$def_key] = $_POST[$def_key];
            }
			// here is my fix
			elseif ( $def_key == 'auto_description' || $def_key == 'auto_keywords' ) {
				if( !isset($_POST[$def_key]) ){
					$add_meta_tags_opts[$def_key] = 0;
				}
			}

            // If missing (eg checkboxes), use the default value
            else {
                $add_meta_tags_opts[$def_key] = $def_value;
            }
        }

        // Finally update the Add-Meta-Tags options.
        update_option("add_meta_tags_opts", $add_meta_tags_opts);

        //var_dump($_POST);
        //var_dump($add_meta_tags_opts);

        amt_show_info_msg(__('Add-Meta-Tags options saved', 'add-meta-tags'));

    }

$default_options

Array
(
    [settings_version] => 2
    [site_description] =>
    [site_keywords] =>
    [global_keywords] =>
    [site_wide_meta] =>
    [auto_description] => 1
    [auto_keywords] => 1
    [auto_opengraph] => 0
    [auto_dublincore] => 0
    [noodp_description] => 0
    [noindex_search_results] => 1
    [noindex_date_archives] => 0
    [noindex_category_archives] => 0
    [noindex_tag_archives] => 0
    [noindex_author_archives] => 0
    [copyright_url] =>
    [default_image_url] =>
    [i_have_donated] => 0
)