Title: ERROR: Required meta tag missing (twitter:description)
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# ERROR: Required meta tag missing (twitter:description)

 *  [maciekl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maciekl/)
 * (@maciekl)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have been trying to implement twitter cards to my twiiter account so I could
   tweet news from my website. I found your plugin and I would like to use it but
   I am not able to render my card preview when I use the validator tool. This is
   the message that I get:
 * INFO: Page fetched successfully
    INFO: 12 metatags were found INFO: twitter:card
   = summary_large_image tag found WARN: Not whitelisted ERROR: Required meta tag
   missing (twitter:description)
 * I look into the code end it looks like the plugin does not display twitter:description
   in meta tag:
 * <!– JM Twitter Cards by Julien Maury 5.4.2 –>
    <meta name=”twitter:card” content
   =”summary_large_image”> <meta name=”twitter:creator” content=”@CreativeGentle”
   > <meta name=”twitter:site” content=”@CreativeGentle”> <meta name=”twitter:title”
   content=”MARIO BALOTELLI IN MANCHESTER”> <meta name=”twitter:image:src” content
   =”[http://creativegentleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mario-balotelli-teaser.jpg”&gt](http://creativegentleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mario-balotelli-teaser.jpg”&gt);
   <meta name=”twitter:image:width” content=”280″> <meta name=”twitter:image:height”
   content=”150″> <!– /JM Twitter Cards 5.4.2 –>
 * Do you know what might be wrong and how I could fix it?
 * regards
 * Maciek
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/)

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 *  [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * (@davideoliveri)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659331)
 * I’ve got the same issue. This plugin used to work though.
 * The thing is I got this error:
 * ERROR: Required meta tag missing (twitter:description)
    ERROR: Required meta 
   tag missing (twitter:title)
 * But the title is present actually, it’s just ignore.
 *  [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * (@davideoliveri)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659332)
 * I tried to use custom fields, with ACF but had no luck.
    I’m not even getting
   the empty/blank meta, nothing at all.
 * I found out that the reason it was working before was because of ExpressCurate
   plugin was adding the :description along with it’s own card type.
 * This is one of those day I’d love to work with other stuff than coding.
 *  [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * (@davideoliveri)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659343)
 * I was finally able to make it working by changing a line in the `options.class.
   php` file.
 * at the end of the `description function definition`
 * change this line
 * > `return array('description' => apply_filters('jm_tc_get_excerpt', $cardDescription));`
 * to this:
 * > **`return array('description' => $cardDescription);`**
 *  [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * (@davideoliveri)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659344)
 * I’ve forgot to say I was also using a custom field
 *  Anonymous User 10765487
 * (@anonymized-10765487)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659354)
 * That’s not normal. I’ll fix it. Thanks for reporting.
 *  [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * (@davideoliveri)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659357)
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [davideoliveri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davideoliveri/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-required-meta-tag-missing-twitterdescription/#post-5659357)
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