Tedrix Title and Meta Description Length Checker

Search results usually show roughly 60 characters of a title and 155 of a description. Longer text is often shortened, and Google may pick its own text instead of yours. This plugin uses those numbers as fixed limits, so treat the result as an estimate, not a preview of what Google will show.

This plugin adds one column to your Posts, Pages and other post lists. For each item it shows:

• the length of the SEO title, and whether it is over 60 characters
• the length of the meta description, or that there is none
• whether the description is under 70 characters

Click “Length problems” above the list to see only the items that need work, so you can go through them one by one.

What it reads

The title it counts is, as far as it can tell, the one your site prints: the title your SEO plugin generates, or the WordPress default (post title plus site name). Template variables are filled in by your SEO plugin before counting. Any it cannot fill in are flagged as unresolved. Items set to noindex in the active SEO plugin, or all items when “Discourage search engines” is on, are marked and not counted as problems.

What it does not do

It does not change your content and makes no external requests. It keeps its scan results in a small cache on your site, cleared when content or SEO settings change. There is no account and no settings page.

If you want new titles and descriptions written for the flagged pages, the free Tedrix plugin does that, with a preview and one-click undo. This plugin works fully without it.