The WordPress JetPack plugin allows you to publish blog posts to a variety of social media sites. As a designer I tend to customize my meta description per post but I had forgotten to set a default meta description for a client in the Yoast SEO plugin. This is not only an important setting for SEO reasons but also for how posts can show up when they go to facebook or anywhere else that uses the description meta data.
You can see in the “old” post that facebook grabbed the first text it saw which was associated with the comment field without the default meta description.
In the new post, the default meta description had been changed out so that if the client didn’t create a custom meta description for the post, it would at least show the default which is nicer.
And as my client put it, with no default meta description, it looks like “my petticoats (are) showing!”