How to add meta descriptions in WordPress
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Hello,
I have a WordPress website in which the front page is built entirely with text widgets. How would I add key words and meta descriptions. Yoast does not give an option for this and it seems WordPress does not support meta descriptions. Anyone have ideas?
The website is championfitprogram.com
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I will give this php a try and see if it fixes my issues.
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I am using Yoast too however on a page that is not set as a static front page Yoast wants you to use the Tag Line for site description and title. I guess I need to convert the front page to a static page instead of widgets. the Udesign theme wants to display the tagline on the front page so I will have to modify the php files, I was trying to stay away from that.
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Ryan has answered it. With WP i use the Yoast plugin and it gets the job done well.
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There are several ways to do this depending on the theme you have installed, wordpress back end, yoast widget, and more. Here's a discussion that covers editing the home page specifically: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-meta-description-of-my-site, while here's a Yoast specific discussion: https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/, and post about the title and meta description editor: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/#title-description.
Wordpress definitely supports meta descriptions so it's just a matter of finding where to edit them within your code.
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