Title: auto generated description issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# auto generated description issue

 *  Resolved [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-generated-description-issue/)
 * I’m the author of a plugin (wp youtube lyte) that parses the_content for specific
   strings (links, actually) that are subsequently replaced. The plugin comes with
   a code to make sure that the_excerpt does not contain those strings.
 * The problem; AIOSEO does not use the_excerpt to generate the description, but
   does it’s own parsing of $post->post_content. Do (or can) you provide a hook 
   somewhere in AIOSEO for me to filter out the strings (that are of no use in there)
   or do you see any other way to handle this in a proper way?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/)

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 *  [Peter Baylies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbaylies/)
 * (@pbaylies)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-generated-description-issue/#post-3815252)
 * futtta,
 * Actually, AIOSEO will use the post excerpt if a manual excerpt is present; there
   are also filters you can use for this, I’d suggest hooking into the aioseop_description
   filter, and there’s also an aioseop_description_override filter that runs a bit
   later in the process, but you shouldn’t need that.
 *  Thread Starter [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-generated-description-issue/#post-3815257)
 * well, $post->post_excerpt is not the same as the_excerpt(), but the aioseop_description-
   filter is just what the doctor ordered. thanks for the excellent support!

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 * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/)
 * [hook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hook/)
 * [the_excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_excerpt/)

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 * Last reply from: [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-generated-description-issue/#post-3815257)
 * Status: resolved