Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
Hey guys, no one knows? 🙁
There is an undocumented filter, add eg. this to your theme functions.php file:
function my_wpseo_metadesc_length( $length ) {
return 200;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_metadesc_length', 'my_wpseo_metadesc_length' );
Untested if this really works everywhere in plugin, that’s your part…
Note that the text below metabox might still show 156 in first part of sentence, seems to be a display/translation or similar bug. The counter in second part of sentence uses the new value though, text from a german backend:
Die Meta-Beschreibung wird auf 156 Zeichen begrenzt; noch 199 Zeichen verbleiben.
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
Die Meta-Beschreibung wird auf 156 Zeichen begrenzt; noch 199 Zeichen verbleiben.
I have the same situation.
I added your code… http://clip2net.com/s/3m8i56N
It doesn’t help.
For example (my site) http://ydivitelno.com.ua/2015/08/ozyora-slyoz/ – you can see number of characters in the description.
Works fine on my test site. Description is added with 200 chars. Only the first part of the sencente below the entry box is wrong.
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
So. Why it doesn’t work in my site with 300 chars?
How many chars did you enter in the yoast meta description box? How many are displayed in html source? Example-URL?
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
Ov3rfly,
In meta description box I entered 20 chars with spaces: http://clip2net.com/s/3mhlbhN
In html code 176:
Example:
http://ydivitelno.com.ua/2015/08/kit-poprosil-pomoshhi-u-lyudey/
In functions.php 300 chars: http://clip2net.com/s/3mi9XdD
With your use of %%excerpt%% the configured excerpt length of WordPress is used to auto-create the description. The length can be changed via the excerpt_length filter (number of words!) of WordPress.
The actual char count of yoast meta description is used if you enter an own custom meta description on each post/page.
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
Ov3rfly, Oh. So. Tell me, please, how should I change the code below correctly
/**
* Change the excerpt length
*/
function alizee_excerpt_length( $length ) {
if ( get_theme_mod('home_layout') != 'one_col' ) {
return 30;
} else {
return 55;
}
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'alizee_excerpt_length', 999 );
As this is basic WordPress coding and not plugin related, I won’t answer this here.
The WordPress Codex has more information about excerpts and excerpt_length filter.
Why would you want to do this. Anything over the count that Yoast places will be truncated anyways?
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
Destac
Hmm…I got confused.
I changed It to 300 characters http://clip2net.com/s/3m8i56N .
So Now the problem is the limitation of WordPress. No?
Thread Starter
FOUX22
(@foux22)
So. I understand that no one knows the answer
