Title: Empty descriptions when using plugins Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Empty descriptions when using plugins * Resolved [danielfriesen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielfriesen/) * (@danielfriesen) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/) * Using this plugin now appears to make the description and og:description on my site completely blank unless the post in question is using an explicit excerpt or has no images in the content. * For reference the only 3rd party plugins I’m using are Akismet, BWP Minify, Jetback, Google XML Sitemaps, and Redirection. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-thumb-fixer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-thumb-fixer/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [danielfriesen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielfriesen/) * (@danielfriesen) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368548) * Sorry I forgot I disabled the plugin before testing normal WP posts, pages, and custom posts without images. * This happens universally on all posts, pages, and custom post types, unless the post in question is using an explicit custom excerpt. * Plugin Author [Rocket Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyott/) * (@mikeyott) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368722) * Hi Daniel, * My plug-in relies on an excerpt for the og:description, and a featured image for the og:image. That might not be the ideal way for some websites, but at this time there isn’t anything I can do about that for this version of the plug-in. * That being said, I’m currently working on a pro version that will be a lot more flexible in that department. Hopefully it’ll be ready soon-ish. * Sorry I know that might not be of much help 🙁 * Thread Starter [danielfriesen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielfriesen/) * (@danielfriesen) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368741) * Sorry but you seem to be misunderstanding what I’m saying. * I’m saying that by default my WordPress installation ALREADY has a meta description tag and og:description filled with a description to it. And the_excerpt already has handling build into WordPress to generate an excerpt from the content. * But when I activate your plugin the description meta tag and og:description become =””, completely erasing the description I already had and event disabling the automatic generation of a description from content that iirc platforms like Facebook try to do. * This is not something needing pro feature I’m talking about, it’s a critical bug where your plugin destroys something that already works. * Plugin Author [Rocket Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyott/) * (@mikeyott) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368745) * Sorry I misunderstood Daniel, * You’re saying that your theme is already outputting og:description, but activating my plugin causes it to become empty? * Clearly my plug-in is conflicting with something you already have setup on your WordPress instance, but it would be too difficult to troubleshoot in a forum. * I wouldn’t call this a critical bug, but rather just another run-of-the-mill conflict we WordPress users have to contend with on occasion. Deactivate my plug- in and no harm no foul. If it was actually permanently destroying data (which my plug-in actually can’t do because it only reads from the db to get the open graph properties), that would be critical. * If I had a working duplicate of your website on my local development server I’d at least take a look to see if there’s anything obvious I could to to rectify it for you, but short of that honestly I would suggest trying a different plug- in if you have reason to believe mine is causing the issue. I know there are others out there that handle open graph properties (maybe way better than mine too), and perhaps they are more forgiving with your theme/plugin set-up. * I know it’s not the answer you were looking for, but good luck all the same. * Thread Starter [danielfriesen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielfriesen/) * (@danielfriesen) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368750) * From a quick test, it looks like Jetpack is the one responsible for outputting my description and og:description tags. * Plugin Author [Rocket Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyott/) * (@mikeyott) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-descriptions-when-using-plugins/#post-5368829) * I’m closing this topic die to lack of activity. I hope you solved the issue you were having. 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