Remove html tags from meta description

Resolved ikke77
(@ikke77)

3 years ago

Hello,

For the meta description I choose a custom field. Now when I share a link for example through whatsapp, the markup for the text is visible like or .

Tried a lot of things php strip tags, replace etc but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

Thank you!

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Plugin Author Benjamin Denis
(@rainbowgeek)

3 years ago

Hi,

can you paste the value of your custom field in <code> tag here please?

Thx

Thread Starter ikke77
(@ikke77)

3 years ago

Hello Benjamin,

Off course, I use multiple for different pages, but below two examples:

%%_cf_lan_english_txt%%
%%_cf__description-se%% %%_cf__description-en%%

Extra info regarding the last: sometimes the Swedish description is not available, so it will then use the English.

Plugin Author Benjamin Denis
(@rainbowgeek)

3 years ago

Thank you for your feedback but I meant the final value, the one in the source code.
Thread Starter ikke77
(@ikke77)

3 years ago
Haha, you meant that code 🙂

That’s like this:
```
<meta name="description" content="Just random text Another text...">
or
<meta name="description" content="Just random Another text...">
```
Plugin Author Benjamin Denis
(@rainbowgeek)

3 years ago
Can you confirm you’re seeing something like this in your source code:
```
<meta name="description" content="test &lt;p&gt;zzzzzzz&lt;/p&gt;">
```
Thread Starter ikke77
(@ikke77)

3 years ago
Hello Benjamin,

Yes, i see that, all is working, but it includes the html tags ( p strong br etc) from the %% custom field %%

But it doesn’t include the characters as you mentioned:
```
 &lt;p&gt;zzzzzzz&lt;/p&gt;
```
It just says: zzzzzzz
- This reply was modified 3 years ago by ikke77.
Plugin Author Benjamin Denis
(@rainbowgeek)

3 years ago

OK, so currently this is not possible to act on this.

But, we’ll add a hook in a future update to filter this.

ETA: June/July

Thread Starter ikke77
(@ikke77)

3 years ago

Thank you Benjamin, have a nice weekend! 🙂
Marco
(@michelyweb)

2 years, 7 months ago
If you want to remove HTML and HTML entities from meta description you can use this filter:
```
function sp_titles_desc($html) {
	return strip_tags(html_entity_decode($html));
}
add_filter('seopress_titles_desc', 'sp_titles_desc');
```
See https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-meta-description/