Yoast SEO: How to add or edit meta description in WordPress
Meta Description is the summary of page content and it appears below the meta title. Make sure your meta description is SEO-friendly because a good and SEO-friendly meta description increases the chance to get a rich snippet.
Steps to add meta description in WordPress:
1-Open WordPress admin panel. For e.g: http://example.com(your_website)/wp-admin
2-Check for Yoast SEO plugin. If you don’t have, install it and activate it.
3-Click on the pages or posts tab in the left sidebar of WordPress panel.
It is up to your needs in which you want to add a meta description.
4-When you open page or post in which you want to add a meta description. For example, we open one post and slide down until we get Yoast SEO. Click on edit snippet then you will find the box to edit the meta description
5-Add meta description and update it.
So this is how we add a meta description. I hope it helped you.
Other helpful link: https://webmingoin.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/to-know-about-sitemap-and-how-to-use-it/
Thanks and regards
Alisha Yousuf