Title: Problem with variable category_description
Last modified: April 20, 2023

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# Problem with variable category_description

 *  Resolved [obelletti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obelletti/)
 * (@obelletti)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-variable-category_description/)
 * In the page of Category, I try to add %%category%% or %%category_description%%
   but when I click the update button they’re truncated. How can I solve this?
 * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KBW_qgephZWihRHwsPXIjl4efKWCn-3L/view?usp=share_link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KBW_qgephZWihRHwsPXIjl4efKWCn-3L/view?usp=share_link)

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 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-variable-category_description/#post-16675277)
 * Hello [@obelletti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obelletti/)
 * Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! We know of a bug where the
   Yoast SEO replacement/snippet variables don’t function properly on taxonomies.
   I’m sorry that our plugin caused a problem on your site. A bug report has been
   created and is under review by our product team.
 * **Workaround**
   At this time, there is no known workaround.
 * **What’s next?**
   Our product team will assess the severity of the issue and assign
   a priority level to the report. Our developers work on the highest priority issues
   first. We cannot give you an estimate of when they’ll start working on the issue.
 * If you have any further information that may affect the prioritization or help
   our development team solve this bug, please leave a comment or subscribe to the
   GitHub report to get updates on the issue.
 * [https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/20040](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/20040)

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 * Last reply from: [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-variable-category_description/#post-16675277)
 * Status: resolved