[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20194: Add Description meta to General Settings

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#20194: Add Description meta to General Settings
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 Reporter:  jane             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  minor            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |
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Comment (by joostdevalk):

 Replying to [comment:14 Otto42]:
 > Replying to [comment:12 joostdevalk]:
 > > Replying to [comment:9 Otto42]:
 > > > Thinking out loud here, it might be good to auto-disable this or
 switch it to using the_excerpt on singular pages. Easily added if desired.
 > >
 > > That's not a good idea either, you'd be better of without a
 description in that case. See link above.
 >
 > Umm. Your link says the exact opposite.
 >
 >   '''Programmatically generate descriptions.''' For some sites, like
 news media sources, generating an accurate and unique description for each
 page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it takes minimal effort
 to also add a one-sentence description.
 >
 > The excerpt is a separate field, which can be generated or manually put
 in by the user. The excerpt is perfect to use in a description tag.

 A handfilled excerpt would be awesome, what I object to is the first
 paragraph of the post :) descriptions only show up in Google when they
 contain the keyword that someone searched for. Believe me, as soon as you
 do it like this, you'll get tons of questions about why the meta
 description isn't showing up...

 The other issue is that MANY themes use the excerpt for the front page or
 other index type pages and they need more text than the 155 chars you'd
 want in a meta description...

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