Its Back... Yoast og:description is not being generated from content in Pro

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#1

Hello,
It was thought that there was a solution to the issue described in detail here:

But… It appears that the problem is back. I am working with the same site I was working on when I posted originally

Pro 2.3.8
Yoast 9.0.2
functions.php: add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );

Please have a look at the issue in this video and advise on a way forward asap. Thank you guys!

#2

Hello @simeoned,

Thank you for the very detailed post information. I have checked this out and I found out that Yoast plugin were not able to display any excerpt simply because it cannot find the page excerpt. Please keep in mind that excerpts were dynamically generated from the very first 55 words of your content. If the text contents were wrapped with shortcodes which is usually the case since you are using Pro editor, the excerpt will have no entry thus it is empty. Your text must be in a text element so that Yoast maybe able to get the excerpt. For best result, you will have to insert a manual excerpt instead. Manual Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts.

Hope this helps.

#3

Yoast plugin were not able to display any excerpt simply because it cannot find the page excerpt

Yes, exactly. This is simply restating the problem I am reporting. I’m looking for the Pro team to resolve this issue as Yoast should be able to find the excerpt as it normally does - especially after including add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' ); in function.php as the previous discussion on this matter suggests.

@alexander, do you have any insight into this issue? I thought this was resolved. I understand that content is wrapped in shortcodes. Can you please have a look? Thanks!

#4

Thanks for the screencast, @simeoned. That helped me replicate the issue. Please watch what I found at https://youtu.be/Ksrb-mkJ4fc

I’m sorry though if I could not help for this case because this is quite deep why the Cornerstone content can’t be read by Yoast. This is different from its content analysis.

Also, if this worked before, there might have a significant change during the update which I also am not able to track. If this is the case we’ll post this in our issue tracker so our development team would be made aware.

Thanks.

#5

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