Title: meta description
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# meta description

 *  [denarougualetempo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denarougualetempo/)
 * (@denarougualetempo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-28/)
 * Hello!
    I found your plugin very useful! thanks! Is it possible to use the meta
   description of a page instead of the excerpt? thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-child-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-child-pages/)

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 *  Plugin Author [caterhamcomputing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caterhamcomputing/)
 * (@caterhamcomputing)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-28/#post-6574842)
 * At present, the plugin only uses the excerpt for the page description … it adds
   the excerpt box to Pages (normally it is only available on Posts) to allow a 
   custom excerpt to be created, so the easiest option would be to fill this field
   with the same contents as you are specifying for the meta description. (You may
   need to select to show the excerpt box from the Screen Options tab at the top
   of the dashboard.)
 * What plugin are you using to populate the meta description?
 * Since there is no standard field for the meta description in WordPress, I guess
   this could probably be achieved if I created an option to name a custom field
   to use as the description – as most plugins would use a custom field to store
   the information. If the field didn’t exist (or was empty), the fallback would
   then be to use the excerpt or page content as normal.
 * I’ll consider this option for future releases.
 *  Thread Starter [denarougualetempo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denarougualetempo/)
 * (@denarougualetempo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-28/#post-6574884)
 * Hello,
    thank you very much for your explanation. I will use the custom excerpt
   option. I’m using Yoast SEO to populate meta description.
 * Regards
 * Simone
 *  Plugin Author [caterhamcomputing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caterhamcomputing/)
 * (@caterhamcomputing)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-28/#post-6575056)
 * I have added 3 new parameters to the shortcode:
 * `use_custom_excerpt`, `use_custom_title` and `use_custom_more`
 * … each can be set to the name of a custom field, and if that field is populated
   for a page its value will be used instead of the standard value. When the custom
   field is not populated, the shortcode will display the standard excerpt/title
   or “more” message.
 * This may help …

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