Title: plugin dies when processing %%ct_desc_%%
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# plugin dies when processing %%ct_desc_%%

 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-dies-when-processing-ct_desc_/)
 * I see the support has changed recently, but I just wanted to report a problem
   that could be handled more elegantly.
    The Help tab of the Titles & Metas section
   says I can use %%ct_desc_<custom-tax-name>%% which is “Replaced with a custom
   taxonomoies description”.
 * So, using the Easy Digital Downloads plugin which creates the “download” post
   type and the “download_category” and “download_tag” taxonomies, I put %%ct_desc_download_category%%
   in the box for the Meta description template on the Taxonomies tab under the 
   Categories taxonomy (not the post category, but the download category).
 * With this in place, the plugin dies on the meta description line when I click
   on a taxonomy link. No error is logged (that I could see) and it looks like a
   blank page, but viewing the source of the page shows it stopped on the meta description
   tag.
 * Changing %%ct_desc_download_category%% to %%term_description%% works perfectly.
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 *  [Juliette Reinders Folmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrf/)
 * (@jrf)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-dies-when-processing-ct_desc_/#post-3913118)
 * Hi Joy,
 * To debug this, it would be really useful to see which error messages are being
   thrown.
 * Have a look at [this code](https://gist.github.com/jrfnl/5925642) which you can
   add to your wp-config.php file.
    It will log any and all php errors to a file,
   independently of whether you have WP_DEBUG set to true. That way you can keep
   track of PHP issues on a live website.
 * I’d be very interested to hear if any errors relating to this issue show up in
   the log.
    Be aware: logging errors will generally scare the living daylights 
   out of most people as they suddenly start realising how many plugins are throwing
   errors….
 * Hope this helps!
 * Smile,
    Juliette
 *  [Juliette Reinders Folmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrf/)
 * (@jrf)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-dies-when-processing-ct_desc_/#post-3913141)
 * Looked into it a bit already and I think I’ve fixed it, but would still very 
   much like to see the actual error messages to verify.
 * I’ve send my fix to Yoast as a [pull request](https://github.com/jdevalk/wordpress-seo/pull/88),
   should hopefully make it into the next version.
 *  [WPGUS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpgus/)
 * (@wpgus)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-dies-when-processing-ct_desc_/#post-3913386)
 * %%ct_desc_%% no work for my, some news about update?

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