Title: Meta description content empty
Last modified: January 20, 2022

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# Meta description content empty

 *  [bananasofa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananasofa/)
 * (@bananasofa)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-content-empty/)
 * About the function:
    “function gretathemes_meta_description()”
 * For the option:
    “if (is_singular())”
 * My return is supposed to be:
    echo ‘<meta name=”description” content=”‘ . $des_post.‘”/
   >’ . “\n”;
 * But the result in my code has an EMPTY CONTENT, like so:
    <meta name=”description”
   content>
 * Is there something else I can use for a meta description on a single page instead
   of “. $des_post ” to fix this? I am wondering if this is something that has been
   updated on version 5.8.3 (which is what I have).
 * Thank you
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmeta-description-content-empty%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-content-empty/#post-15274198)
 * try reviewing [https://gretathemes.com/seo-add-meta-tags-without-plugins/](https://gretathemes.com/seo-add-meta-tags-without-plugins/)
 *  Thread Starter [bananasofa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananasofa/)
 * (@bananasofa)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-content-empty/#post-15274700)
 * Exactly. That is precisely the code I used.
 * The problem is on line 8, the code:
 * “echo ‘<meta name=”description” content=”‘ . $des_post . ‘” />’ . “\n””
 * Returns nothing…

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [bananasofa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananasofa/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-content-empty/#post-15274700)
 * Status: not resolved

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