Duplicate Description

In the description meta tags I keep getting:

Forum - Forum Description.

How can I stop the "Forum -" part from showing up?

vBSEO doesn't add this. Check your headinclude tempalte.

Non-vBSEO:
<meta name="description" content="Introduce yourself to the community here!" />

vbSEO

<meta name="description" content="Introduction - Introduce yourself to the community here!
" />

I don't see anything in headinclue that would be adding it.

Also I notice that forums not running vBSEO lack it the Forum_Title - part.

Hello Alan,

You can disable the "Replace the 'META DESCRIPTION' Content?" setting within:

vBSEO CP -> SEO Functions -> Dynamic META TAGS

All I want to do is remove the "FORUM_TITLE -" portion. Is that all that will happen if I disable that option?

No, it will add as well a more extensive meta description to your static pages. What makes that option is precisely to short your meta description tag for your forumdisplay and showthread pages.

If you only want to delete the forum name from your meta description tag, please edit your vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo.php file:

Find:

PHP Code:

$desc_content = $fi['title'] . ($_GET['page'] ? ', '.construct_phrase($vbphrase['page_x'],$_GET['page']) : '') . (isset($fi['description'])?' - ' . $fi['description']:''); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$desc_content = $fi['description']; 


Please note that we officially *don't support* modifications to vBSEO source code, so, use it at your own risk, and only in your vBSEO instance.

Thank you very much for taking the time to explain how to accomplish that.

Worked perfectly.

You're welcome Alan .

Only issue is that I spotted in Webmasters the Page numbering stopped work.

I tried to hack my headinclude but I guess vBSEO takes over headinclude as no matter what I put for description I guess vBSEO rewrites it and makes the headinclude version null?

I ended up commenting out that line completely and letting headinclude do it with IF statements.

Am I missing something obvious that I could have broke doing that? I went through all the pages and descriptions seem good.

vbseo re-writes the meta tags, optionally. You can disable this feature if you wish.

Sorry Brian but not quite relevant to the conversation. My question had to do with commenting out a single line and it's relation to the description meta.

You can replace the line you commented with:

PHP Code:

$desc_content = (isset($fi['description'])?'' . $fi['description']:'') . ($_GET['page'] ? ', '.construct_phrase($vbphrase['page_x'],$_GET['page']) : ''); 


So if you are on the first page of a forum, you'll see the meta description like this:

HTML Code:

<meta name="description" content="Main Forum Description" />

And, if you are on a second page, you'll see the meta description like this:

HTML Code:

<meta name="description" content="Main Forum Description, Page 2" />

Is that what you want to achieve?.