meta descriptions not showing on place pages using geodirectory and yoast seo

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July 11, 2019 at 7:43 am #497083

Stephen Nipperess
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Hi guys,
I am having problems with meta descriptions and page titles entered into each place page not showing on place pages when using geodirectory and yoast seo.

I am getting an auto-generated page title and no meta descrition.
I am getting og:description for facebook and twitter:description for twitter but no general meta description for google.

see attachment for an idea of what I am getting

July 11, 2019 at 9:09 am #497091

Kor
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Hi Stephen ,

Thanks for your post. Could you share your Website WP admin access here so that I could inspect your backend settings?

July 11, 2019 at 9:34 am #497094

Stephen Nipperess
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July 11, 2019 at 1:17 pm #497109

Guust
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You have selected to use Yoast instead of GD at …/wp-admin/admin.php?page=gd-settings&tab=general&section=seo but you have not added any meta description for Places at …/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#post-types

Thanks

July 11, 2019 at 2:53 pm #497116

Stephen Nipperess
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Not quite a solution. I have added a custom title and meta description for each individual places entry. But they are not showing on the pages.

July 11, 2019 at 5:26 pm #497160

Paolo
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Hi,

I see what you mean, I asked the developers to follow up.

Thanks

July 11, 2019 at 5:28 pm #497161

Stephen Nipperess
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I figured it out.
In the yoast seo section
wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#post-types
under Places (gd_place)
Enter the variable %%excerpt%% in the description field.

July 11, 2019 at 9:52 pm #497253

Paolo
Site Admin

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Thanks for sharing the solution.

July 12, 2019 at 1:05 am #497274

Stephen Nipperess
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Yes it does work but it should work just by leaving the description field blank. So it still a bug that should be looked into.

July 12, 2019 at 4:48 am #497294

Stephen Nipperess
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Unfortunately this was a false solution.
What it does is auto generate a meta description from the first paragraph of text entered into Place main content.

There is still an issue with the seo title and meta description that I have entered into the yoast seo section of each Place entry, not showing on my Place listing page.

All of the other pages of the website work fine. wordpress pages. Geodirectory category pages, Geodirectory tag pages. It just the place pages that are not showing. But without being able to set meta descriptions this does impact SEO pretty badly.

July 12, 2019 at 3:38 pm #497408

Paolo
Site Admin

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Ok developers have been alerted again and they’ll follow up asap

July 15, 2019 at 7:54 am #497656

Kiran
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Hello Stephen,

This has been fixed. Please provide FTP credentials so we can check & confirm on your site after applying patch.

Regards,
Kiran

July 17, 2019 at 2:28 am #498110

Stephen Nipperess
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July 18, 2019 at 9:08 am #498344

Kiran
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Hi Stephen,

Please check and let us know.

Kiran

July 18, 2019 at 2:04 pm #498406

Stephen Nipperess
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Awesome that does look like it working now.
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