Meta description missing from homepage & rosetta homepages

[jonoaldersonwp]

Add a <meta name="description" content="{{STRING}}" /> tag to homepages.

Use the same value as the og:description when available/populated, or, fall back to WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

[dd32]

Does it need to be specifically <meta name="description" content="..." /> or can <meta property="description" content="..." />?

If it can be property= then that's easy, as I can use Jetpacks functionality for it, however I note that ​some tools don't seem to detect property="description" even though that works for opengraph. I suspect the answer is that it needs to be name="description" but wanted to verify before I put in work to make it work like that.

[jonoaldersonwp]

Yeah, name please!

[dd32]

Replying to jonoaldersonwp:

Yeah, name please!

Great, lets see if I can figure out how to make Jetpack support that.. :)

[dd32]

In 8008:

WordPress.org: Add a <meta name="description" tag to mirror the OpenGraph tags.

Fixes #3983.