How to get meta description by post id? - Support

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superpatch

Rank Math pro

SEO Course

I have a loop of posts and trying to get the auto generated meta description using the following functions.. Everything is blank


if( have_posts() ){
	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
	?>
	<a>" class="post-listing-item" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
		<?php the_post_thumbnail('full'); ?>
		<h3 nodrop><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
		<?php
			$d1 = RankMath\Paper\Paper::get()->get_description();
			$d2 = RankMath\Post::get_meta( 'description', get_the_ID() );
			$d3 = RankMath\Post::get_meta( 'rank_math_description', get_the_ID() );
			
			echo $d1;
			echo $d2;
			echo $d3;
		?>
	</a>
	<?php
	endwhile;
	wp_reset_postdata();
}

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Jeremy
6 months, 1 week ago
Hello,

Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

Please replace the 3 lines with below instead and see if that works for you:
```
global $post;
$d1 = RankMath\Paper\Paper::get_from_options( "pt_{$post->post_type}_description", $post, '%excerpt%' );
$d2 = RankMath\Post::get_meta( 'description', $post->ID );
$d3 = RankMath\Post::get_meta( 'rank_math_description', $post->ID );
```
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
superpatch
6 months, 1 week ago

Rank Math pro
SEO Course

Hello.. this is what I observed.

$d3 is always blank. Not sure how to get it to work.
$d2 requires adding description in the RankMath Snippet.
$d1 is the excerpt of the post that is auto generated by WordPress.

I’m trying to replicate how RankMath generates the description for Social Media tags like og:description where it automaticaly adds description without adding anything to the RankMath snippet.

Can you help?

Jeremy
6 months ago

Hello,

$d3

Can you please confirm if you intend to retrieve the individual post meta description and have the global option of the meta description as your default/fallback?

Please try the code below and see if it works for you:

RankMath\Post::get_meta( 'description', $post->ID, RankMath\Paper\Paper::get_from_options( "pt_{$post->post_type}_description", $post, '%excerpt%' ) );

We have tested this on our local setup with success and this code should work on your website as well.

$d2

This is quite expected. If the description meta is blank, then this will render blank. What you can do here is to add or create a fallback value for this variable.

$d1

Can you please share a screenshot of the current meta description of the post that is shown on the Rank Math SEO metabox?

We really look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you.

superpatch
6 months ago

Rank Math pro
SEO Course

If you look at the below screenshot, you can see if the RankMath snippet is blank, there is a default description added my RankMath here. How can I get this default description?

Jeremy
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Hello,

That is expected since the meta description for that individual post is technically “blank”, and our plugin’s behavior is to derive from the global settings (Titles & Meta).

In your code, it will only see the blank, not the the global settings so you need to create a logic that will have a fallback.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need my assistance with anything else.

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