Title: Meta Description Clash
Last modified: September 3, 2019

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# Meta Description Clash

 *  Resolved [nigelrs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nigelrs/)
 * (@nigelrs)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-clash/)
 * You can clearly see on this website that when Yoast is enabled it provides 2 
   meta descriptions. One is the original one (which is puts further down the page)
   and the second is the Yoast one which takes top priority.
 * Facebook doesn’t know which one to use, so it uses the old one and not the one
   I have entered in the Yoast Social settings for FB. I contacted FB and their 
   technical team said there should only be 1 meta description as it’s crawlers 
   don’t know what to do with 2. So it picks the oldest one – which is one I don’t
   want to show.
 * So, essentially, unless I have done something wrong, it seems a bit of a blunt
   instrument (e.g. why cannot it not deactivate the old line and then reinstalled
   it if the plug in gets deactivated or something similar).
 * Is there a way around this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmeta-description-clash%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [amboutwe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amboutwe/)
 * (@amboutwe)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-clash/#post-11924017)
 * Yoast SEO only adds one meta description tag. Upon reviewing the page, there 
   only appears to be one meta description on the page URL provided. Is this still
   happening?
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-clash/#post-11945758)
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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## Tags

 * [duplication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplication/)
 * [meta descriptions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta-descriptions/)
 * [social](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/social/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-clash/#post-11945758)
 * Status: resolved