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WordPress Meta Name Description Not Showing Up!

Hey all,

I am having trouble configuring my new wordpress blog. I installed a plugin called AlliOneSEO Pack. I configured the settings for it and enabled it. When I search for my site in google I search liek this Site:websitename.com
I see my site but the meta name description does not show up. This was all supposed to be taken care of by the plugin so i'm not sure why it's not working.

I even disabled my main theme and left it with the plain blue one to see if it was the theme that was causing the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

If giving you the website name would help, let me know and I can provide

Thanks

Heather Ritchey

Two things - first view the source of a couple of pages on your site and see if the description meta tag is seen there.

Second - if you see them in the source code, how long are you waiting in between to check the search listings? Are you giving it enough time to update?

dakeys

ASKER

In regards to your 1st answer - I put the information inside the AllinOneSEO Pack plugin, I think this takes the place of doing it manually.

2nd Reponse: I originally waited about 1 week, and no information shows up, then yesterday, I removed my theme and left the plain blue one to see if there was a problem with the theme i was using.

Heather Ritchey

Yes, that's correct - the all in one seo will auto create your metas from the title and content area of your posts and pages. With the exception of the home / frontpage - that page information is set right on the all in one seo admin page.

Can you please turn back on the theme that you want to be using and then provide both the link to your site and attach the header.php file code from that theme? That way I can take a look and see if the all in one is actually doing it's job. And if not, it will narrow down the possible reasons that it would be failing.

I've rarely come across conflicts for the all in one plugin, but using it with a couple other meta plugins can cause issues of duplicated metas where the first one seen by the search engines would be blank. But let's take a look and see if the problem is quick to spot.

dakeys

ASKER

Ok, below is my link and I also put back the theme that I originally had.
http://beginningguitarlessonsinfo.com/

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo('name'); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ; bloginfo('name'); }
 elseif (is_single() ) { single_post_title(); }
 elseif (is_page() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo ': '; single_post_title(); }
 else { wp_title('',true); } ?></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/script.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style.ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php printf(__('%s RSS Feed', 'kubrick'), get_bloginfo('name')); ?>" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php printf(__('%s Atom Feed', 'kubrick'), get_bloginfo('name')); ?>" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" /> 
 
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div class="PageBackgroundSimpleGradient">
</div>
<div class="Main">
<div class="Sheet">
    <div class="Sheet-tl"></div>
    <div class="Sheet-tr"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-bl"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-br"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-tc"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-bc"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cl"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cr"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cc"></div>
    <div class="Sheet-body">
<div class="Header">
    <div class="Header-png"></div>
    <div class="Header-jpeg"></div>
<div class="logo">
    <h1 id="name-text" class="logo-name">
        <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
    <div id="slogan-text" class="logo-text">
        <?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
 
</div>
<div class="nav">
    <ul class="artmenu">
        <?php art_menu_items(); ?>
    </ul>
    <div class="l">
    </div>
    <div class="r">
        <div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

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dakeys

ASKER

Thx for taking the time out to look through the header.php code. I will monitor the site for another week and see how it looks then.

Thanks Again