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1. etchel1
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I'm having a problem on Single Post, can you guys help me what to put on the meta description? I need to put an excerpt, am I doing it right?
   I wanted the excerpt to appear on google search engine. how can I do that manually? I already fixed my SEO so it will crawl it. I wonder if my meta description is my prob coz whenever I search my own post on google, it gives me the description of my index page, not the single post's description

   <?php if ( is_single() )  { ?>
   		<meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt(); ?>">
   
   	<?php }
   	else
   		//do nothing
   	?>

   don't mind my if else statement, am asking about the meta tag description.

2. dkotter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   This is a code snippet I've used before that works good:

   <?php
   if (is_singular()):
   global $post;
   setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   <meta name=”description” content=”<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>” />
   <?php endif; ?>

   But I'd recommend using an SEO plugin to handle things like this, since they'll do a better job and do a lot more then just add meta descriptions. My favorite is WordPress SEO by Yoast.

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