Title: Meta Description Wrong in Source Code
Last modified: August 29, 2017

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# Meta Description Wrong in Source Code

 *  Resolved [cbisu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbisu2/)
 * (@cbisu2)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-wrong-in-source-code/)
 * We are using Yoast SEO to manage our sites titles/meta descriptions.
 * The meta description is showing up incorrectly in Google.
 * Upon farther inspection, the meta description in the Yoast plugin is not being
   pushed to the live page. Inspecting the source code shows that there IS a meta
   description, but it is not the description from the plugin (it does match the
   meta description from the previous version of our site).
 * There are NOT multiple meta descriptions when the source code is read, there 
   is only one on the page, it is just incorrect. The source code also indicates
   that the meta description is coming from the latest version of the Yoast plugin,
   which we just updated to.
 * The theme does not appear to create its own meta descriptions.
 * So, is there a reason that this would be happening?
 * Oh, and we’ve updated the meta description and tried it again, even after emptying
   the cache there is still no correct meta description.

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 *  [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-wrong-in-source-code/#post-9459655)
 * I’d look at your theme, which may have its own SEO stuff happening that negates
   the plugin’s output

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-wrong-in-source-code/#post-9459655)
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