Yes, I can validate that you have two “description” meta tags – one added by WPSSO, and a second added by another plugin, theme, or custom function:
<meta name="description" content="Food Events in Portland Oregon" />
You should remove this duplicate meta tag.
When editing a post/page, WPSSO should have warned you about the duplicate meta tag. Have you been seeing duplicate meta tag error notices?
js.
I know I need to remove one of them. This is the default tagline from WordPress. I didnt add anything via a page, etc.
I need this one populated in order to display on the home page.
I suspect that I will need to blank that one out, and possibly add a txt widget with our tagline, or incorporate it into the header image.
I guess there is no fix other than that.
thx
That is not a standard meta tag provided by WordPress or the default WordPress themes. It is being added by a plugin, your theme, or a custom filter / action. You cannot leave the meta tag there with a blank / empty value – you must remove the meta tag.
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Thanks, I will sort through my plugins again.
For anyone else that ends up with these type of dupes, I figured out my specific case.
I had turned on the Jetpack SEO switch, and while I had entered in no specific info, it was setting up the default tagline as a meta description tag and competing with WPSSO.
Turning off that SEO switch cleared it out.
Best to handle SEO within a plugin that you can explicitly see what is being done.
