[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20194: Add Description meta to General Settings

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#20194: Add Description meta to General Settings
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 Reporter:  jane             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  minor            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |
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Comment (by joostdevalk):

 I'll be honest, I've got mixed feelings about this. The way it's
 implemented now, each page would have the same meta description, which is
 a bad idea. [This is the Google
 documentation](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624#1)
 for why that's a bad idea: each page should have a different description.

 However, having core output the meta description, with a filter in place,
 would make me happy as a plugin developer as that would mean themes would
 finally stop doing it. The same goes for meta robots and canonical etc.
 However, as it is right now, a definite -1 from one of the "SEO lovers".

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