# How add meta description for posts?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [September 15, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091 "2018-09-15T06:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![enoter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/enoter/32/1243_2.png) [@enoter](https://forum.ghost.org/u/enoter)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/1 "2018-09-15T06:25:52Z")

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Why posts don’t have

`<meta name="description" content="post description" />`

tag? How i can make it?

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**Author:** ![enoter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/enoter/32/1243_2.png) [@enoter](https://forum.ghost.org/u/enoter)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/2 "2018-09-15T06:27:04Z")

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It’s just empty 😕

![Screenshot_16](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/d/df80bd69c16038a6362176674907c793e11225b4.png)

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**Author:** ![Rohitkrops](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/rohitkrops/32/1031_2.png) [@Rohitkrops](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Rohitkrops)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/3 "2018-09-16T05:47:54Z")

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You have to fill that yourself.

In post settings just below Authors select **Meta Data** and type what you want.

When done, click back arrow on top (\<) and save the changes. Update the post and check now.

By the way there is no need to have a description as Google creates one automatically. Moreover google picks lines that match a query (it can be from any paragraph or heading) i.e. Google shows different descriptions in search for the same page based on what the user is looking for.

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**Author:** ![enoter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/enoter/32/1243_2.png) [@enoter](https://forum.ghost.org/u/enoter)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/4 "2018-09-16T06:57:04Z")

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I’d like it to be generated automatically, like og:description and twitter:description 😟

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**Author:** ![rahavsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rahavsha](https://forum.ghost.org/u/rahavsha)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/5 "2018-09-16T07:28:52Z")

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Hey, I would like to use Ghost on my website [http://uktvnowapk.ooo/](http://uktvnowapk.ooo/) and I am new to the platform but I heard a lot of positive response about it. But I have many doubts like how to add meta description? is there a suitable plugin to do that?. Shall I install Ghost on my website mentioned above or should I try it with any new blog? Help please.

Regards,  
Rahavsha.

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**Author:** ![vikaspotluri123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/vikaspotluri123/32/24_2.png) [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/6 "2018-09-16T15:06:52Z")

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They are automatically generated. If your post doesn’t have any content, the description will be empty. Can you link us to an example where a description is not being generated? You can see the automatically generated descriptions on the [demo site](https://demo.ghost.io)

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**Author:** ![enoter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/enoter/32/1243_2.png) [@enoter](https://forum.ghost.org/u/enoter)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/7 "2018-09-16T17:29:07Z")

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[https://demo.ghost.io/welcome/](https://demo.ghost.io/welcome/)  
not have

```
 <meta name="description" content="......................." />

```

Only og and twitter.

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**Author:** ![enoter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/enoter/32/1243_2.png) [@enoter](https://forum.ghost.org/u/enoter)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/8 "2018-09-16T17:39:11Z")

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Okey, i change ghost\_head and now  
`head.push('<meta name="description" content="' + metaData.twitterDescription + '" />');`

work for me 🤨

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-add-meta-description-for-posts/3091/9 "2018-09-30T17:48:37Z")

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