Vito Tardia

<p>With Simple SEO you can set your custom content for the “keywords” and “description” meta tags in each post or page using the standard WordPress metabox interface.</p>
<p>You can also set default values for each meta tag which will be displayed in all your pages, although this is not a SEO best practice.</p>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Romanian by Web Geek Science (<a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Hosting Geeks</a>)</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian by Borisa Djuraskovic (<a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Webhostinghub</a>)</li>
<li>Ukrainian by Michael Yunat (<a href="//getvoip.com/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">http://getvoip.com</a>)</li>
<li>Indonesian by Jordan Silaen (<a href="//chameleonjohn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://chameleonjohn.com</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manual Database Update</h3>
<p>In order to update your database you can run the following queries using your favorite MySQL admin tool, changing your table prefix if needed (a backup is strongly recomended).</p>
<pre><code>UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_key = '_sseo_meta_keywords' WHERE meta_key = 'meta_keywords';

UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_key = '_sseo_meta_description' WHERE meta_key = 'meta_description';
</code></pre>


Simple SEO Pack

Simple SEO is a quick way to add HTML meta tags to your site and pages using WP integrated custom fields feature.

Philipp Speck

<p>This plugin will give you the ability to use the <code>excerpt</code> as <code>meta description</code> for any post or page. From now you are able to control the description of your site which will be displayed on the search engine results pages.<br />
By activation the plugin enables the excerpt for static edit pages in admin area.</p>
<p><strong>Related Links</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.typomedia.org/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-meta-description/" title="Homepage of WordPress Meta Description" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-meta-description/changelog/" title="Changelog for WordPress Meta Description" rel="ugc">Changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-meta-description/faq/" title="FAQ for WordPress Meta Description" rel="ugc">Questions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35264#1" title="Create good meta descriptions" rel="nofollow ugc">Information</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><br />
Before installing or upgrading new plugins, please backup your database first!</p>


WordPress Meta Description

With this plugin you can control the text which will be shown as description on the search engine results pages.

Simple SEO Pack vs WordPress Meta Description