Adding meta tag without plugin

Although I would advice you to avoid this and use a plugin for this work. Because only a dedicated plugin can help SEO. “WordPress SEO” from yoost is a great plugin for SEO.

That being said, here is the code for adding meta description and keywords in header. Paste this in theme’s functions.php file.

function add_meta_tags() {
    global $post;
    if ( is_single() ) {
        $meta = strip_tags( $post->post_content );
        $meta = strip_shortcodes( $post->post_content );
        $meta = str_replace( array("\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $meta );
        $meta = substr( $meta, 0, 125 );
        $keywords = get_the_category( $post->ID );
        $metakeywords="";
        foreach ( $keywords as $keyword ) {
            $metakeywords .= $keyword->cat_name . ", ";
        }
        echo '<meta name="description" content="' . $meta . '" />' . "\n";
        echo '<meta name="keywords" content="' . $metakeywords . '" />' . "\n";
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'add_meta_tags' , 2 );

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