How to add meta descriptions in WordPress

[donsilvernail]

Hello,

I have a WordPress website in which the front page is built entirely with text widgets. How would I add key words and meta descriptions. Yoast does not give an option for this and it seems WordPress does not support meta descriptions. Anyone have  ideas?

The website is championfitprogram.com

[RyanPurkey]

There are several ways to do this depending on the theme you have installed, wordpress back end, yoast widget, and more. Here's a discussion that covers editing the home page specifically: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-meta-description-of-my-site, while here's a Yoast specific discussion: https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/, and post about the title and meta description editor: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/#title-description.

Wordpress definitely supports meta descriptions so it's just a matter of finding where to edit them within your code.

[MindlessWizard]

Ryan has answered it. With WP i use the Yoast plugin and it gets the job done well.

[donsilvernail]

I am using Yoast too however on a page that is not set as a static front page Yoast wants you to use the Tag Line for site description and title. I guess I need to convert the front page to a static page instead of widgets. the Udesign theme wants to display the tagline on the front page so I will have to modify the php files, I was trying to stay away from that.

[donsilvernail]

I will give this php a try and see if it fixes my issues.