Please if anyone familiar with wordpress and seo can help.
We installed all in one seo and set page title to description so we could change page titles and also installed Category SEO meta tags so we could add meta descriptions.

This is a copy of the code which is gives two meta descriptions please does anyone know if this will affect seo rankings and what meta description will google read


<!-- All in One SEO Pack 1.6.13.2 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[175,269] -->
<meta name="description" content="Plumbing companies, repair services New Orleans:/>
<link rel="canonical" href="removed" />
<!-- /all in one seo pack -->
<!-- Category SEO Meta Tags 2.2 by Bala Krishna (removed) -->
<meta name="description" content="New Orleans #1 Business Directory provides a comprehensive list of the best plumbing companies and repair services in New Orleans!
List your website today!
Thanks.....

The plugin does a very bad job of instructing you to remove the original meta tags that are in your header.

If you are familiar with php, just delete those meta tags in header.php. The plugin writes those dynamically.

Does it remove both meta tag desriptions? Or which one will header.php remove still need meta desc. Thanks

In your header.php file the original meta description line might look similar to this:

PHP Code:

<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description') ?>" />

You can just delete this entire line of code. (Again, you won't see the description tag the plugin is generating in the header.php file itself.)

More support for this plugin can be found here.

thanks that should be easy but one quick question. I looked for header.php and found under wp-content / themes / directorypress and did not find code in header.php Please advise if this is the right place to locate file. Also i really thank you for the help. I been pulling out my hair

Also just to verify this will remove all in one meta tag?

i removed in header.php and still get this

<!-- All in One SEO Pack 1.6.13.2 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[175,288] -->
<meta name="description" content="Advertising and Marketing services New Orleans/>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

<!-- /all in one seo pack -->
<!-- Category SEO Meta Tags 2.2 by Bala Krishna (http://www.bala-krishna.com) -->
<meta name="description" content="Nola Business Directory provides a comprehensive list of the best advertising and marketing services New Orleans in New Orleans!
List your website today!
Would like to use All in one seo but not have the meta description not match the page title.

I looked for header.php and found under wp-content / themes / directorypress and did not find code in header.php Please advise if this is the right place to locate file.

Normally, that is the correct path to the theme files. DirectoryPress has a bunch of themes to choose from so they are probably child themes of one main parent. I have never worked with child themes, but the files are usually just a css and maybe a few others. These child themes should be in a sub-folder of themes.

To verify, did you find the header.php but not the meta tag code?
or
Are you not able to find the header.php file?

Also just to verify this will remove all in one meta tag?

No, this will remove the default meta tag that was coded with the template header. The All-in-one meta tag is written "on the fly" as a page is requested. It ties into the wp_head() function so you will not see it[the all-in-one meta tag] in the code itself until a page is generated. Therefore, you will end up with NO "visual" meta description code in the header.

i think that is my problem i am using all in one seo and it makes the meta desc the same as my title.

Which only way i could find out how to change title of category is by changing
Category Title Format:%category_description%

But for some reason the meta desc is created on the fly it copies the page title or Home Title which are both the same.
Still lost as when i started, looking for an easy way to use all in one seo that i can determine my titles and meta desc for categories easily

What are you trying to do here? Add meta tags?