Remove Joomla Meta Description Without Editing the Core

How to Remove Joomla Meta Description

Joomla meta description is required because it forms a more compelling web page in search engines. More people will click on sites having a proper meta description in the search engine snippet than random descriptions. But if you wish you can remove the Joomla meta description completely. Edit the templates/mytemplate/ component.php /index.php file.

1. Complete Removal in Component.php file

<jdoc:include type="head" />

2. Individual Removal in Component.php file

• Access head elements only: $document = $this->getHeadData();

• Access path reference: $baseURL=JURI::base(true);

• Access all scripts

foreach ($document[scripts] as $key=>$value){

if (stristr($key,$baseURL)==NULL){$url= $baseURL."/".$key ;}else{$url=$key;}

$scripts .= "<script type=".$value." src=".$url."></script>"; };

• Access all style sheets

foreach ($document[styleSheets] as $key=>$value){

if (stristr($key,$baseURL)==NULL){$url= $baseURL."/".$key ;}else{$url=$key;}

$style .= "<link rel='stylesheet' type=".$value[mime]." href=".$url." />"; };

• Access all internal scripts elements

foreach ($document[script] as $key=>$value){

 $scripts .= "<script type=".$key." >".$value."</script>"; }

• Access all custom scripts

foreach ($document[custom] as $value){

$custom .= $value; }

3. Remove Joomla Meta Description Without Editing Component.php file

• Create new tmpl file in template folder. Eg [installation path]/ template/ mytemplate/
• Using Joomla plugins