Automatic Meta Description
Prints a meta description from the excerpt or opening words of posts, from term descriptions on archives and from the tagline on the homepage. Skipped when an SEO plugin is active.
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Code
add_action( 'wp_head', function () {
if ( defined( 'WPSEO_VERSION' ) || defined( 'RANK_MATH_VERSION' ) || defined( 'AIOSEO_VERSION' ) || defined( 'THE_SEO_FRAMEWORK_VERSION' ) || defined( 'SEOPRESS_VERSION' ) ) {
return;
}
$description = '';
if ( is_singular() ) {
$post = get_queried_object();
$description = has_excerpt( $post ) ? $post->post_excerpt : wp_trim_words( excerpt_remove_blocks( strip_shortcodes( $post->post_content ) ), 35, '' );
} elseif ( is_category() || is_tag() || is_tax() ) {
$description = term_description();
} elseif ( is_front_page() || is_home() ) {
$description = get_bloginfo( 'description' );
}
$description = trim( preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', wp_strip_all_tags( (string) $description ) ) );
if ( '' !== $description ) {
printf( "<meta name=\"description\" content=\"%s\" />\n", esc_attr( wp_html_excerpt( $description, 160, '' ) ) );
}
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