Should the name attribute of the meta tag be "description" or "meta-description"?

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Can anyone tell me what the difference between description and meta-description?

I've just read on the WordPress blog to mainly use "meta-description" as it's strongly recommended. I'm confused.

<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="meta-description" content="">

Can you give a link to this blog post you read? It doesn't sound right to me. — Stephen Ostermiller, Commented Jun 1, 2017 at 11:02
@StephenOstermiller thank you for the input. Actually this is an advice from SEO expert, i ll ask him any website link that explaining this. — tonoslfx, Commented Jun 1, 2017 at 11:42

unor · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-01 12:46:41Z

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"meta-description" is a notation that means: meta element with the description name. (I’m using it for example in this answer.)

So you don’t use meta-description as name (which would be invalid anyway, because it’s not registered), but description.

answered Jun 1, 2017 at 12:46

unor

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