Title: Meta Description and MultiPaged Posts Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Meta Description and MultiPaged Posts * Resolved [Tzeapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzeapa/) * (@tzeapa) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-and-multipaged-posts/) * Hello, * I’m certain I’m not alone. I currently use AIOSP and disable it for paged posts. And the descriptions showing for those posts in the SERPS are messed up. If I enable All in One SEO Pack for paged posts then I get duplicate meta descriptions… so it’s a lose lose situation. * I’m only using multiple pages for posts because I use a lot of pictures and write a lot in my articles so I need to split them. * I managed to modify the title to show a – Page X so I avoid duplicate titles but for description I really need to use different ones for each page of the post. * Is there any way to do so? Plugins? Code Snippets? Anything would help a lot. * Thank you very much ! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Thread Starter [Tzeapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzeapa/) * (@tzeapa) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-and-multipaged-posts/#post-2297449) * I finally cracked it, got it working perfectly. If someone wants to know how I did it please leave a reply and I will tell you the solution. I won’t write it now because although it’s a very simple solution I don’t have the time to write all the instructions… * [ptpgen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptpgen/) * (@ptpgen) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-and-multipaged-posts/#post-2297577) * Hey Tzeapa: I’d love to know how you did that as i’m looking for the same answer. 🙂 Thanks! * Thread Starter [Tzeapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzeapa/) * (@tzeapa) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-and-multipaged-posts/#post-2297578) * So here it goes I’ll try to be as explicit as possible so bare with me 🙂 * The solution is using custom fields and then calling them in your theme’s header. php file… * Here is what I did, I have a lot of posts with 2 and 3 pages and the maximum nr of pages on a post is 4. * On each post with more then 1 page you have to add a number of custom fields. On posts with 2 pages you must add 2 custom fields, on posts with 3 pages you need 3 custom fields and so on… * So on each paged post I added the following custom fields (you can use whatever names you want): metadesc1 (meta description for page 1 of the post) metadesc2( meta description for the 2nd page of the post), metadesc3 and metadesc4. * Each custom field must contain the following: * * So it’s something like this: * **metadesc1** custom field = * **metadesc2** custom field = * etc etc * After adding those custom fields to each of the multi page posts you have to add them to your HTML. You do this by calling those custom fields in your theme’s header.php file using **get_post_meta** function. So add in the header.php file( before ) the following: * `ID, 'metadesc', true); } ?>` * this adds the meta description on every 1st page of a post * ` 1) && ($page < 3) && is_single() ) { echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'metadesc2', true); } ?>` * this adds the meta description on every 2nd page of a post * ` 2) && ($page < 4) && is_single() ) { echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'metadesc3', true); } ?>` * this adds the meta description on every 3rd page of a post * ` 3) && ($page < 5) && is_single() ) { echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'metadesc4', true); } ?>` * this adds the meta description on every 4th page of a post. * Although it is a lot of work depending on the number of paged posts, the concept is very easy, if you have any issues or you don’t understand something I will help you as this fix was a god send for my website, every user that uses the <–nexpage–> tag should implement this. * Just hours after I did this Google started indexing 2nd, 3rd etc pages of my articles and they appeared in the search results. * To further improve SEO, you must disable the wordpress canonical url function which will stop google from indexing your paged pages. * To do that simply add the following line in your theme’s funtions.php * `remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');` * **Edit:** Maybe a plugin developer will see this and implement all this stuff into a plugin, as I said before the implementation is very easy but there is almost no useful information on how to add custom meta description on paged posts so I may be the first to do this… * Also using this method you can add keywords or any kind of meta info… * What I forgot to mention is that I use All in One SEO Pack but I disabled if for posts with more than 1 page… Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Meta Description and MultiPaged Posts’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [description](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/description/) * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/) * [paged](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paged/) * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tzeapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzeapa/) * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-and-multipaged-posts/#post-2297578) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics