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#5670 – Wrong Meta Description

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Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:10 UTC
bud
 Hello,

I use sh404sef for years without issue, but today I noticed an issue with meta description. I have a meta description (Articles > Publishing > Meta description) for all my articles but in my source code I can see this:

<meta name="description" content="the copy of the first words from my article content">


and not what would I expect to see:

<meta name="description" content="the meta description I inserted">


I know that sh404sef usually takes meta description from the article, but with sh404sef enabled my meta description text is ignored and replaced by the first lines of the article content. And if I disable sh404sef, meta description returns to be displayed correctly.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you
 
Monday, 18 March 2019 08:24 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

1 - What's the site URL and a full and exact link to one page showing this behavior?

2 -
I know that sh404sef usually takes meta description from the article,
Only if no other description is available either:

- manully entered through Joomla
- manually created description in sh404SEF SEF URL manager or Titles and meta manager

If the auto-description is used then it means no description is found from Joomla which I assume is what you mean by "...my meta description...".

I can't think of any actual reason, especially if that happened suddenly.

- Do you have any other extension that may deal with descriptions such as JSitemap, another SEO extension, etc
- I assume you're using the latest sh404SEF, version 4.15.2 and latest Joomla?
- Does this happen as well if you temporarily switch to one of Joomla native template such as protostar?

Best regards
 
Friday, 22 March 2019 15:56 UTC
bud
Hi,


1 - What's the site URL and a full and exact link to one page showing this behavior?


http://www.xxxx.com/

I have this problem on all my pages I think, and I noticed this problem only one week ago. It has always worked well for years before, and I haven't changed anything, just updates.

Here an exact link as example:
http://www.xxxx.com/promozioni/blfgdfgdfgdfgdfgf

- manully entered through Joomla

- manually created description in sh404SEF SEF URL manager or Titles and meta manager



I manually entered meta description through Joomla for all my articles. In "Publishing > Meta description" section.

- Do you have any other extension that may deal with descriptions such as JSitemap, another SEO extension, etc

Only JSitemap, but I use it only for sitemaps, not meta descriptions. Anyway I tried to disable JSitemap, nothing change.

- I assume you're using the latest sh404SEF, version 4.15.2 and latest Joomla?

Yes

- Does this happen as well if you temporarily switch to one of Joomla native template such as protostar?

Yes, same issue.

Joomla meta descriptions reappear only when I disable sh404sef.

Best regards
 
Friday, 22 March 2019 16:14 UTC
wb_weeblr
HI

So as a first measure I would suggest you go to "SEO" and disable "Generate meta-description". That will prevent the replacement of description by sh404SEF in all cases.

Then we can look deeper, I'll probably need superadmin access to look around and test.

Please confirm changing that setting solves the issue.

Best regards
 
Friday, 22 March 2019 16:20 UTC
bud
It works!

Thank you
 
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