Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will automatically create a meta description from your wordpress post striping out all shortcodes and tags. Make sure you have in the header.php of your wordpress theme or this snippet will not work.
\n[php]
\nfunction create_meta_desc() {
\n global $post;
\n if (!is_single()) { return; }
\n $meta = strip_tags($post->post_content);
\n $meta = strip_shortcodes($post->post_content);
\n $meta = str_replace(array("\\n", "\\r", "\\t"), ‘ ‘, $meta);
\n $meta = substr($meta, 0, 125);
\n echo "<meta name=’description’ content=’$meta’ \/>";
\n}
\nadd_action(‘wp_head’, ‘create_meta_desc’);
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