WP description plugin
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Can anyone recommend a WP plugin which creates a description from the individual blog post it's describing?
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Thanks Jeff
I've been resisting the Yoast solution for the same point you raised, but it does seem to be the best solution. Will download it into a test blog and try it out.
Thanks for you help
Catherine
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My vote's for headspace2.
I like that I can add js and css on the fly to specific pages with it easily.
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Sure. The one that's getting the most attention right now is by Joost de Valk: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ It does a lot of SEO stuff and might be overkill. Another that creates a Title and Description field on the WP backend is HeadSpace2: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/
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Ok I'll take your advice. Could you recommend a good plugin to allow for easy addition of a description?
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I wouldn't recommend automatically generating the meta description because it won't necessarily be the best summary to display in the serps. Writing something specific for users will have a better chance of click throughs.
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I want it to do the former - take the first 165 chars from the post!
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What do you mean? Just a character limiter that takes the first 165 characters of the post and adds it a meta description? Or one that uses the excerpt? Or something else?
All in One SEO does auto descriptions, not sure how they're generated though - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
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