Titles and Meta – Page – Not working

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the Titles and Meta settings. It seems that the excerpt is not pulling the expected content from your body paragraph.

In Rank Math, if you haven’t set a custom meta description, it will generate one based on the following order:

1. Custom Meta Description set for the post
2. Description Templates set in Titles and Meta settings in Rank Math
3. Post Excerpt
4. The first paragraph of the content in the post

Since you mentioned that the excerpt is not working correctly, we recommend checking the following:

• Ensure that you have set a custom meta description for your page. This gives you more control over what appears in the SEO description.
• If you prefer to use the excerpt, make sure it is filled out correctly in the post editing screen. You can find the Excerpt metabox in the Block editor or enable it in the Classic editor via Screen Options.
• If neither of these options is set, Rank Math will default to using the first paragraph of your content as the SEO description.

To set a custom meta description, click on the Rank Math icon in the post editing screen, navigate to the General tab, and click Edit Snippet to enter your custom description.

If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!

Sources:
Rank Math ‘Titles and Meta’ Options and Settings

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Please note that the variable %excerpt% in Rank Math will show the excerpt of the current post (the data or value added in this field)

Also, the variable will be auto-generated if there is no post excerpt available from your post. It will pull the first 160 characters on your content if that field is empty.

To clarify, Rank Math cannot add an excerpt to your posts as the variable relies on the data you have added from your content or post excerpt itself.

The default meta description is set to %excerpt% but you can change that by going to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math SEO > Titles & Meta > Posts.

If you want to have more fine-grain control over the meta description of each post you need to edit those manually on each post using the snippet editor of our plugin as illustrated here: https://rankmath.com/kb/seo-meta-tags/

It’s important to note that the variable %excerpt% is converted to text when the page is loaded so all posts have meta descriptions already taken from the content of the post.

Looking forward to helping you.