Problem with Plugin: Wordpress SEO by Yoast

[waynestock]

Hi Hi,

I'm using the Plugin "Wordpress SEO by Yoast". Unfortunatelly, this plugin generates a sourcecode looking like this:

name='description' content='XXXXXX.'/>

Seomoz can't read this and tells me, that my pages have no description. Google doesn't matter and reads it correct. Is there anything I can do about this?

Many greetings

André

[Jinx14678]

I am not an expert on this plugin by any means - but did you force rewrite? - or manually change in header.php? (or where ever the expression resides in your template) to the correct php expression to correctly re-write the meta?

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

I know that forcing re-write can have inconsistent results sometimes...

Hope this helps, but not sure

[waynestock]

Hi Shane,

many thanks for your answer, but I'm not sure, if I'm getting you right. I'm no programmer, so I don't know what "forcing rewrite" means. Do you think, I have to change the sourcecode in the plugin from ' to " ??

Maybe out there is another user of Yoast (I know there are... ;), who know this problem, too?

Thank you very much

André

[evolvingSEO]

Hi

What page type are you getting this on? Categories, tags, posts, pages? Every page?

Did you fill out the description templates under Yoast->Titles?

Its strange Moz does this and not Google. Can you provide your site or a screen shot of the source code (view source on your browser)?

Thanks!

-Dan

[waynestock]

Hi Dan,

here you can find one of those pages: http://www.selbstbehauptungsakademie.de/blog/2012/03/12/freundschaft-bei-kindern/

And yes, the description is inserted in a Yoast-Formfield.

I have seen, that the Plugin has the Versionnumber 0.4.2. I think that version is very, very old. Maybe that is my problem and I will try an update before comlaining again...

Best regards
André

[evolvingSEO]

Hi!

Thanks, I'm viewing the source code now and it appears correct.

I would definitely update Yoast. Its great now, but the old version was known to break certain things.

Then let us know if you're all set.

Thanks!

[waynestock]

Hi Dan,

sorry, that I haven't answered for so long! Yes, it was the update! The version I used before was ages old...

Now it works fine!

Thank you
André