Description Meta Tag (description text that shows up in search engine)

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  joelbrinkley · Member · Apr 19, 2014 at 2:26 pm

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  Trying to figure out how to add a meta description tag for my premium theme. The description currently has a bunch of jumbled up words/numbers that show up where a description would be in a search engine.
  I’ve spent some time trying to research how to find and edit the php file with no avail.
  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
  Thanks,
  -joel

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Apr 23, 2014 at 8:13 pm

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  Hey Joel,

  WordPress.com users are not provided php access for security reasons. So, there isn’t a way to manually add a meta description for your home page. The best option here is to provide a bit more detail in your tagline field here:

  https://illumnipress.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

  Also, when you being adding posts to your site, you’ll want to include proper tags and categories to help search engines better understand what your site is about.

  Let me know if you need anything else!

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  joelbrinkley · Member · Apr 23, 2014 at 10:05 pm

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  Okay, I was afraid of that. Thanks so much for the help!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Apr 23, 2014 at 11:45 pm

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  Not a problem! Let me know if you need anything else.