Meta description not showing on homepage

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

If your theme is adding SEO data on your site, we recommend getting in touch with them to disable that since Rank Math already provides metadata on your whole site.

Regarding the title, please note that Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and shows something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

To ensure that the meta title and description you have set are already applied, you can verify that using these tools:
https://heymeta.com
https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/

You can refer to this guide as well:
https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

We’ve checked your website and found that you’ve set the Extra Theme Layout of your homepage in WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading and that’s why Rank Math is not able to detect your homepage.

In this case, you can try to customize the following filter on your website to set meta description for your homepage:

/**
 * Allow changing the meta description sentence from within the theme.
 *
 * @param string $description The description sentence.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', function( $description ) {
	return $description;
});

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

Yes, you will need to edit that filter according to your needs. If you’re unsure of how to create one for your needs, kindly try this filter instead:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/description', function( $description ) {
	if(is_home() || is_front_page())
	{
	$description = 'ABC';  //Replace ABC with the meta description 
	}
	return $description;
});

Please let us know how this goes.

Hello,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you so much for your valuable review and your kind words! We’re delighted to hear that you had a positive experience with us. Your feedback means a lot to us.

If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are always here to help you.

Thank you.