Autogenerated Meta Descriptions include shortcodes

Hi Frank,

YouTube by EmbedPlus registers its shortcode only on the front-end. So, in the admin area, neither The SEO Framework nor WordPress is aware of this shortcode.

However, there’s good news: although the shortcode is displayed as-is as a description part in the admin area, it won’t be displayed like that on the front-end; which is what search engines see. So, it’s an inconsistency displayed in the placeholders only, and there’s no need to be worried.

Now, to fix this, kindly ask the authors of that plugin to register the shortcode in the admin area too; like Gutenberg, which makes everything available on both ends for ensured compatibility 🙂

I’m a bit stumped on the need for that plugin, as WordPress supports YouTube embedding out of the box… without a shortcode: just paste the YouTube URL and WordPress converts it.

I understand, thanks for enlightening me 🙂

If you’re looking for a quick fix–so that the counters and other audits are correct–, you can use this snippet:

add_action( 'init', function() {
	if ( is_admin() )
		add_shortcode( 'embedyt', '__return_empty_string' );
} );

Cheers!