Single Product Description meta tag

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

This is the order we follow to generate meta descriptions for WooCommerce products:

1. Content from SEO Description field
If that is missing, then:
2. WooCommerce Excerpt or Product Short Description
If that is missing, then:
3. Template From General Settings in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Products
If that is missing, then:
4. Auto generated Content from the product page (long description)

To summarize, the short description you have set will be prioritized if you’re using the %excerpt% variable for your description.

In case you wanted to force the use of the long description (full product description), you can create a custom variable for the product’s long description by adding this filter on your site:

add_action( 'rank_math/vars/register_extra_replacements', function() {
	rank_math_register_var_replacement(
		'woo_full_desc',
		[
			'name'        => esc_html__( 'Woo Full Desc.', 'rank-math' ),
			'description' => esc_html__( 'Woo Full Description...', 'rank-math' ),
			'variable'    => 'woo_full_desc',
			'example'     => woo_full_desc_callback(),
		],
		'woo_full_desc_callback'
	);
} );
function woo_full_desc_callback() {
	global $post;
	if ( empty( $post ) ) {
		return 'Product Description';
	}

	return wp_strip_all_tags( $post->post_content );
}

And here’s a link on how to apply a filter on your site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#how-to-add-code-snippets-to-rank-math-php

After this, add %woo_full_desc% in the SEO description field.

I hope that helps.

Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.

Hello,

Since this code will only run properly when the page is an actual product page any images that are not on product pages will get the ALT as “Product Description” and that might not be appropriate to have multiple images with that ALT tag.

So we would refrain from adding this to the setting for the missing ALT tag.

Hope this helps clarify your doubts.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Hello,

I checked on my end and the variable is fetching the full description even if the short description is set. Can you please check again? Here is a quick screencast: https://i.rankmath.com/W2ABjZ

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We apologize for the unexpected delays.

We would like to further debug this issue over your admin dashboard but it seems the access you shared is so limited at the moment. Could you please elevate the access to the admin level so we can access some of the settings pages?

We are looking forward to helping you.