Can I change the contents of a description meta tag generated by Yoast in a Word

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  kugrastu · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 12:03 pm

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  Essentially I have the Yoast plugin handling my SEO related things. The main one giving problems is the description meta tag.

  The site is bilingual and I would like the description meta tag to be translated as well. Yoast currently does not provide that option, unless I get another plugin which I do not want to get into.

  As it stands, I am told that I can insert the description meta tag through the functions.php using add_action. This unfortunately does not work as it only adds another description meta tag.

  Currently my code looks like this:

  function insert_meta_tag_in_head () {
      echo '<meta name="description" content="My New content" />';
  }
  add_action('wp_head', 'insert_meta_tag_in_head', 1);

  So basically this just gives me a second description meta tag. I have also seen in other threads, that if I want to replace a tag, I should use the do_action function. Which I call as follows:

  do_action('wp_head', 'insert_meta_tag_in_head');

  This however does nothing. What am I doing wrong? How can I change the contents of the description tag given to me through Yoast?

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  torres126 · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 4:22 pm

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  Hi there, what is the URL of your website?

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  kugrastu · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 4:26 pm

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  It is an unreleased client’s website that I am not sure they would like me posting it here. (I know it sounds silly, sorry!) Do you absolutely need it?

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  torres126 · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 4:33 pm

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  It’s important to verify that your hosted with WordPress.com, and I suspect that you’re not. You don’t need to post it here though!

  Please type it into https://www.whoishostingthis.com/ and if it says Automattic, let us know.

  In the case that it is not, it would that your website uses the self-hosted version of WordPress rather than WordPress.com, which is what this forum is designed to help with. Note the difference here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Should this be the case, you may be able to find help here: https://wordpress.org/support/ or alternatively contact your hosting provider.

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  torres126 · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 4:33 pm

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  Note: Another way of checking is that on WordPress.com, you would need the Business Plan to use the Yoast Plugin.

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  kugrastu · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 5:30 pm

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  Ahh I see!
  I’m sorry I didn’t realize this. Indeed it is not hosted with wordpress.com.
  Thank you for the info, I will redirect this question to wordpress.org.

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  torres126 · Member · Aug 2, 2018 at 5:55 pm

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  Best of luck finding a solution. :)