Problem with Meta Descriptions and Keywords on a WordPress Site

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Hello, I recently rebuilt one of my websites with WordPress. The url is ultimateorigami.net

I then installed the "All in One SEO" plugin and used it to write different descriptions and keywords for each page on the site.

However if you visit any random page on my site, say: ultimateorigami.net/origami-diagrams/origami-mythological-creature-diagrams

And view the source you'll see something weird. Near the top of the head section the meta keywords are blank and the description is pulling the tagline from the General Settings in WordPress.

Then if you look further down you'll see comments indicating the All in One SEO plugin stuff and you'll see a second set of meta keywords and description. These are the ones I wrote myself and would like to see on each page.

Can anyone help me remove the weird blank keywords and tagline description on my pages and replace it with the ones from the All in One SEO plugin?

I've used this plugin before and never encountered this problem.

Thanks in advance.
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  • Mmmm - I'm going to guess that the top meta info is probably built into the header.php file for the theme possibly? Check that, and code that out and see if it removes it.
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    • Thanks for the help. I looked at my header.php file and found this near the top:

      Code:
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
      I removed the:

      Code:
      <meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
      And now those aren't showing up on the pages when I click "View Source"

      My descriptions and keywords are still further down the head in the code.

      So I think that might have fixed it. Is there any way I can test this and make sure Google is now picking up my descriptions and keywords?
  • This is what's showing for your site:

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    • That's definitely what's supposed to be showing for the homepage.

      Is there any way you can run that thing for any other page on the site?

      And I've also got to ask you what tool you just used to find that information out.
  • Sure, what other page? It's Quirk Search Status.
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    • Thanks, I installed that addon, checked some other random pages and everything seems good.
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