Wordpress Shortcodes Showing in SERPs

[kylesuss]

We use some Wordpress shortcodes in our theme and they aren't in the meta description at all. For certain queries, the shortcodes show on the SERPs when Google chooses the description for us -- is there any way to clean this up or prevent it?

It's annoying because it includes the entire shortcode, not the markup that gets generated as a result of the shortcode...

[Zkwarta]

Well that's interesting - I see the code for the tags - it's coming out of this class:

id="subgenre-tags-raw" style="display:none">

I also see that you have a meta description - this is a stumper!

Why not head over to the google webmaster forum and reach out! I'd be very interested to see what they say!

[kylesuss]

Sorry for the slow reply -- out of town for the holidays.

Example

Everything loads fine on the page, it's just the snippet on the SERP that is goofy.

[Zkwarta]

Do you have an example of this?

From what I can gather it sounds like a php execution problem if markup isn't being generated...a function isn't being called correctly.

Also, meta descriptions aren't by default very useful in WP. I've had to modify themes to use custom meta descriptions on the homepage, categories, and tag pages.