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Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

#6579 new defect (bug)

Improve meta descriptions when viewing tags in theme directory.

Reported by: dufresnesteven's profile dufresnesteven Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: Theme Directory Keywords:
Cc:

Description

If you visit https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/full-site-editing/ directly, the meta description is a list of author names. This should probably not be the case. We should update it to something more relevant.

Example:

Posts about Full Site Editing written [...]

Most likely due to:
​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/blob/b255d2fc6b2666cc94ae9895d389a4de94271284/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-themes/functions.php#L325

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meta_description.png​ (950.9 KB) - added by kafleg 11 months ago.

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Change History (4)

@kafleg
11 months ago

#1 follow-up: @Otto42
11 months ago

Why would it matter? Those pages are noindex anyway.

#2 in reply to: ↑ 1 @dufresnesteven
11 months ago

Replying to Otto42:

Why would it matter? Those pages are noindex anyway.

Embeds pull the description:

​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C015GUFFC00/p1668273376357029?thread_ts=1668074798.011759&cid=C015GUFFC00

#3 @dufresnesteven
11 months ago

  • Summary changed from Improve meta descriptions when viewing tags. to Improve meta descriptions when viewing tags in theme directory.
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