Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
You can use this filter to extend the limit of description so your meta description templates will capture all of those words with a limit of 300:
add_filter('rank_math/frontend/description',function($description){
$description=mb_substr(strip_tags($description),0,300);
return $description;
});
The filter should be added to your active theme’s functions.php file. Here’s another way to apply the filter using the rankmath.php file:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#adding-filters-and-hooks-in-rank-math-php
Please note that the filter may not be visible while editing the posts as it only works when your posts load in a browser. You can check the published/saved post’s meta description via its source code.
You can also check the meta description using this tool:
https://www.heymeta.com/
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Thank you. I created the rankmath.php file in my theme’s folder and the pasted in the code snippet and saved it. But it does not work, the code is actually displayed at the very top of all the pages now as one line. A link to my screenshot is below. Please advise what I need to do to fix this. Thank you very much. Scott
Hello,
Please ensure to enclose the code with <?php ... ?> so that the filter code will work.
Please refer to this filter code instead:
<?php
add_filter('rank_math/frontend/description',function($description){
$description=mb_substr(strip_tags($description),0,300);
return $description;
});
?>
Hope that helps. Looking forward to helping you.
That works, thank you very much.
Hello,
We are super happy that we have addressed your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind us asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
