Hey Richard,

Hm, sorry but not entirely sure if I understand you here. Could you please elaborate more on this issue please?

Certainly! We are using the built in Composer to create blog entries. In the EasyBlog configuration, I have it set to automatically generate meta descriptions based on the blog content. However, the description is being populated with the pure HTML code, not the text of what is being entered into the blog entry.

For example, check out the page source for this page from the site:
Example

If you look at the meta description, you will see it's populated with the first 250 characters of the blog's HTML code. This may very well be due to using Composer, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't mess something up in the configuration.

Hey Richard,

Hm, this is odd because on my local instance, I don't hit such problems. Is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue?

To add your access, simply edit your first post above or head on to http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site to insert your site access once only.

Thanks! I added the details for my site on the Dashboard

Hey Richard,

Can you give this a try again? I have applied some fixes for you on the site and also applied the same fixes internally

That's looking much better! I still have the weird thing that's happening with the TICKETS button that's on the page. Look at the page source for this page:

EXAMPLE

See how there is a bunch of spacing in the description? This must just be because of the way the Composer stores so much info in one field. Like I said, not a really huge deal!

Rick

hey Richard,

Thanks for getting back to us what my colleague fix is helped.

That columns block is generated these following code and it might the reason come out a lot of space from the meta description tag. We will see if we can avoid this happen in the future release version.

    <div class="ebd-block  is-nested" data-type="text" ><p>Thursday, June 2 - Doors 8pm - $10 </p></div></div>

    <div class="col col-md-6" data-size="6">

        

    <div class="ebd-block  is-nested" data-type="buttons" ><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="btn btn-default btn-danger" rel="">

    <span>hello world</span>

</a></div></div>

Thanks, Arlex! I can see how difficult it is to pull out the descriptive text when looking at the contact of the database field storing the post. The post text (the actual verbiage) is preceded with:

<div class="ebd-block  is-nested" data-type="text" >

But, as I can see from your post, so does the first text block which contains the show date. I love the Composer, by the way, because it made it VERY easy for me to set up an easy entry tool for my clients to maintain a consistent look in their blog entries. Perhaps there could be another BLOCK type added, one that indicates that block contains the main blog content? That block could contain a different class or type than the other text blocks, which could then easily be searched for when creating the meta descriptions. Just a thought...

In any case, thank you for the outstanding help!!
Rick

Hey Richard,

Thanks for the input on this but I think this really doesn't make sense if you need to define a "main text". Rather than defining the "main text", why don't you just copy / paste the text under the Meta description section Both these action requires an additional step for the author

Yeah, I have instructed them to just copy and paste. I was just thinking what may make it easier, not just for my client but for others, to be able to avoid the extra step. Like I said, it's not a big deal. Thanks!!

Noted, and thanks for your input on this! Greatly appreciated.