As of April 2026, VS Meta Description is a WordPress seo plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 132K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
4.4/516 reviews
3.0K+active installs
132K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
About
With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.
The meta description summarizes the content of a post or page.
Search engines such as Google and Bing will use the meta description when displaying search results.
Add a meta description only for your homepage, or for each individual post and page.
This plugin also supports WooCommerce products, product categories and tags.
How to use
After installation go to the settings page. This page is located at Settings > Meta description.
More info about using this plugin is displayed there as well.
Have a question?
Please take a look at the FAQ section.
Translation
Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More translations are very welcome!
The translation folder inside th…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Не то
by fedor77·3 months ago
Поторопился с выводами.
- This topic was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by fedor77. Reason: Поторопился с отзывом
Works perfectly!
by Matija·8 months ago
Perfect for adding basic meta to your website.
Does what I need it to
by Chris Lovie-Tyler·1 year ago
This allowed me to avoid all the other bloated SEO plugins. Thanks!
USELESS
by Anonymous User·2 years ago·1 reply
It inserts the same description for all pages, basically ruining the SEO of the entire site.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Anonymous User.
Its perfect
by wbxpress·3 years ago
it’s perfect solution for me.
Download Trends
Today: 9Yesterday: 21This week: 92Period total: 13K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v8.1
56.4%
Other
31.2%
v7.9
7.0%
v8.0
5.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Version 8.1
- Minor changes in code
Contributors
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