Title: Meta Description
Author: Luke Mlsna
Published: <strong>September 22, 2012</strong>
Last modified: February 9, 2018

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Meta Description

 By [Luke Mlsna](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/meta-description.1.0.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/#installation)
 * [Development](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/)

## Description

Plugin that allows you to easily give individual posts and pages an HTML meta description
from the edit post/pages admin area.

### Readme Generator

 * This plugin’s readme.txt file was generated by the [Readme Generator](http://shinraholdings.com/tools/readme-gen/)
   for WordPress Plugins.

### Support

 * [Plugin Homepage](http://shinraholdings.com/plugins/meta-description)
 * [plugins@shinraholdings.com](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/plugins@shinraholdings.com?output_format=md)

### Donations

[Donations](http://shinraholdings.com/donate) are graciously accepted to support
the continued development and maintenance of this and all our other plugins. We 
currently accept Paypal, link backs, positive ratings, and kind words.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The meta description post meta box.

## Installation

 1. Download the latest zip file and extract the `meta-description` directory.
 2. Upload this directory inside your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 3. Activate ‘Meta Description’ from the ‘Plugins’ tab on the Dashboard.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Download the latest zip file and extract the `meta-description` directory.
 2. Upload this directory inside your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 3. Activate ‘Meta Description’ from the ‘Plugins’ tab on the Dashboard.

  Is there a shortcode?

No. The meta description is inputted in a meta box from the “edit post” or “edit
page” admin pages. It is inserted automatically when the plugin is activated.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ded1967fb5ec19adb3a1d5dc8c767976bde09d5d214bac2c404bc7831d4bba3a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[My favourite meta description plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-favourite-meta-description-plugin/)󠁿

 [Adam Kupis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamus/) June 2, 2018

Simple, light, doing right job and don’t slow down website like other SEO combine.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Meta Description” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Luke Mlsna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/)

[Translate “Meta Description” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/meta-description)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meta-description/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/meta-description/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/meta-description/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/meta-description/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.6

 * Actually, I added a lines to remove any line breaks in the description.
 * And changed the input on the admin page to be smaller.

#### 1.0.5

 * Tested up to WP 4.9.4

#### 1.0.4

 * Purely cosmetic update for WordPress 4.4

#### 1.0.3

 * Reordered hooks?

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed escaping of meta description string

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixes display of meta description on index pages.

#### 1.0.0

 * First released version, no changes yet.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.6**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **500+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/)
 * Tags
 * [description](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/description/)[google](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)
   [meta](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/meta/)[search](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [seo](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/meta-description/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Luke Mlsna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bitacre/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-description/)

## Donate

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