How can I get the meta description to show in the head of the page?

With recent changes to Add Meta Tags, it is now completely possible to make it work good with AnsPress. I’m using it, see it in action here: http://dima.stefantsov.com/qa/

add_action('wp', 'd_anspress_amt_fix');
function d_anspress_amt_fix()
{
    // Only make changes when inside AnsPress.
    if (!function_exists('is_anspress') || !is_anspress()) {
        return;
    }


    add_filter('amt_exclude_schemaorg_metadata', '__return_true');
    add_filter('amt_exclude_dublin_core_metadata', '__return_true');

    // Feed AMT with real question-post.
    if (is_question()) {
        add_filter('amt_get_queried_object', function(){ return get_post(get_question_id(), OBJECT); });
    }
}

This is part of the same ANSPRESS_TITLE problem we are seeing here https://anspress.io/questions/question/anspress_title/

When that finally gets fixed the correct metadata will be shown in the page. For the moment that’s not happening on mine, your and a lot of other AnsPress sites, due to the fact they are not configured the same as Rahul configures his test site.

So, until he completes the documentation and specifically covers this setup issue, we are all in the dark.

This is a show-stopper for me as I am not going to launch my site until I can find out how to fix this metadata problem. And I imagine quite a few other people will be interested to learn how, too.

I was about to create a same question. Let me elaborate.

To create proper meta tags, microformats – I’m using excellent Add Meta Tags plugin. It doesn’t work well with AnsPress though:

As you can see, it thinks current page link is just dima.stefantsov.com/qa/ (really bad for SEO! equally bad for sharing questions in social networks)

Then it thinks description is [anspress] shortcode, which is content of base page. Here is a piece of code AMT uses to get description:

elseif ( is_singular() ) {

$content_desc = amt_get_content_description($post);
        if ( !empty($content_desc) ) {
            $metadata_arr[] = '<meta property="og:description" content="' . esc_attr( amt_process_paged( $content_desc ) ) . '" />';
        }

function amt_get_content_description( $post, $auto=true ) {
    if ( is_singular() || amt_is_static_front_page() || amt_is_static_home() ) {    // TODO: check if this check is needed at all!

        $desc_fld_content = amt_get_post_meta_description( $post->ID );

        if ( !empty($desc_fld_content) ) {
            // If there is a custom field, use it
            $content_description = $desc_fld_content;
        } else {
            // Else, use the post's excerpt. Valid for Pages too.
            if ($auto) {
                // The generated excerpt should already be sanitized.
                $content_description = amt_get_the_excerpt( $post );

        // When the post excerpt has been set explicitly, then it has priority.
        $amt_excerpt = sanitize_text_field( amt_sanitize_description( $post->post_excerpt ) );

Long story short, it tries all the way down to “read post content” to find proper data. But data is not there, since at all times wordpress thinks current page is /qa/ base page.

I’ve skimmed through this QA forum and found a lot of problems people had with <title> previously. That has been fixed afaik, but current issue looks like it’s of same origin. Internally, Questions are custom posts in wordpress (something like that). If it would be possible to somehow present real underlying item to wordpress when displaying page, a whole lot of problems, with a title, with meta tags, urls, and I’m sure with a lot more other things would be automatically solved. Is what I’m saying even possible?

This is really important for me, I’m planning to run from my current Q&A system for exactly this reason: if I want something there, I have to write it myself. Like microformats markup. But when we speak of WordPress, there are great plugins for everything like Add Meta Tags, they do it all automatically, magic!
It would not be much use, though, if AnsPress is functioning in a non-default way and plugins can’t work with it.