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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.</p>
<p>The meta description summarizes the content of a post or page.</p>
<p>Search engines such as Google and Bing will use the meta description when displaying search results.</p>
<p>Add a meta description only for your homepage, or for each individual post and page.</p>
<p>This plugin also supports WooCommerce products, product categories and tags.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to the settings page. This page is located at Settings > Meta description.</p>
<p>More info about using this plugin is displayed there as well.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-meta-description" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Meta Description

it's really foolish to stick a single meta description in the sitewide header template. that's duplicate content so google knows immediately it's poor quality. it will do more harm than good to your rankings.

1 description duplicated sitewide = bad seo

Simple plugin doing exactly what it is supposed to without bloat. 
Maybe a button could be added to the Default Open Graph Image field, to select the image directly from the library instead of pasting its URL.

Works perfectly

The plugin works perfectly, it is extremely small (8kb zipped), which is a big plus, and the developer is super nice, very responsive and simply awesome.

Thanks a million,
Nick.

A 5 star plugin

Its perfect

With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.

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<h4>About</h4>
<p>This is a very simple plugin to add meta description in the header of your WordPress website.</p>
<p>Search Engine Optimization is one of the most well-known channels in digital marketing. Google, Bing and other search engines show meta descriptions when in search result pages.</p>
<p>After Enabling the plugin, you can add good descriptions to you posts and pages by using “Excerpt” text area.<br />
If you run an online store using WooCommerce, add meta descrption to your product pages by typing your desired content in “Product short description”.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to Settings > Meta Description and enter a meta description of max. 320 characters.</p>
<h4>Extra settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use the meta description for homepage only</li>
<li>To be able for adding meta description to your post and pages, enable in “Exeprt” che the box “Use as meta description.” </li>
<li>To Use the WooCommerce “Product short description” as meta description Please check the box “Use as Meta Description”</li>
</ul>
<h4>Post and page excerpt</h4>
<p>An excerpt is a summary of your post or page content.</p>
<p>The excerpt is already available for posts and with this plugin it becomes available for pages as well.</p>
<p>While adding a post or page you can set an excerpt using the “Excerpt” box.</p>
<p>The “Excerpt” can be used as meta description for that post or page.</p>
<h4>WooCommerce</h4>
<p>This plugin also supports post type “products” which is used by WooCommerce.</p>
<p>While adding a WooCommerce product you can set an excerpt using the “Product short description” box.</p>
<p>The “Product short description” can be used as meta description for that product.</p>


Meta Description Made Easy

By using this simple plugin yo can add add meta description to the header of your WordPress website.

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