Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #81444 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

Hello

so when you say missing from articles , you mean when viewing the articles them in frontend ? (you do not mean item form)

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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #81445 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

ggppdk wrote:
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so when you say missing from articles , you mean when viewing the articles them in frontend ? (you do not mean item form)

yes, the code changed
if the metadesc is empty then no meta description will be added

Previous code (when metadesc is empty) it added the 160 first characters of the item's description
Should we restore previous behaviour ?

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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #81450 by oofifay3koo

Replied by oofifay3koo on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

Yes please let's restore that feature. It hurts SEO... Thanks you!

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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #81453 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

Hello

It would impact SEO only if you do not display the description text, otherwise it should not make a difference ???
but we can restore the old behaviour in v4.0.1 (aka set description text as metadesc when metadesc is empty)

i was checking default code for Joomla article manager and they do not auto-use description text as "metadesc" when metadesc is empty. Just mentioning this

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2 years 2 months ago #81485 by oofifay3koo

Replied by oofifay3koo on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

Correct, we lost around 250 keywords since the update 5 days ago.

Is there any line of code I can add to any PHP file that can bring this back until the update is released. can not afford to lose more traffic. thanks!

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2 years 2 months ago #81486 by micker

Replied by micker on topic Missing automatic Meta description in FC v4.0.0 (old behaviour was to auto use description as metadesc, if metadesc is not set)

meta description doesn't use by google 10 years ago .....
you didn't loose something is your content is great

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