Meta Tags

[Putnam]

How do I set meta descriptions?  I can edit the tags but not description.  In google results, my site just says in the description
Name: TheCoolList - Index
Description : TheCoolList - Index
http://www.thecoollist.110mb.com/ [nofollow]

Name : Fun Pranks - thecoollist
description : Fun Pranks - TheCoolList
http://b;ahblahblah

It's really frustrating me, how can I set the description to something other than the pages name, such as my own text or the first paragraph or so of the thread?

[shadow82x]

You can adjust the meta description in

In:

Themes / {your default theme} / index.template.php

Find:

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<meta name="description" content="', $context['page_title_html_safe'], '" />

Replace:

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<meta name="description" content="MY SITE DESCRIPTION" />

However google doesn't always respect your meta description and theres a good change this will not work.

[KahneFan]

You can also try this mod...
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1138

[videogamemojo]

Hey How2,
where do you go to actually edit the tags?  Saw the mods out there but figured there must be a way to actually edit the templates, not sure though. 

[KahneFan]

You can adjust the meta description in

In:

Themes / {your default theme} / index.template.php

Find:

Code Select Expand

<meta name="description" content="', $context['page_title_html_safe'], '" />

Replace:

Code Select Expand

<meta name="description" content="MY SITE DESCRIPTION" />

However google doesn't always respect your meta description and theres a good change this will not work.