How to Add a Description to a Theme Header on a WordPress Blog
- 1). Navigate to www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin in your Web browser, where "mywebsite.com" is the address of your website. Enter the user name "admin" along with your WordPress password to continue to the dashboard.
- 2). Click the "Appearance" heading on the dashboard, and then click the "Editor" link below.
- 3). Click the "Header" link on the right side of the Editor screen. This displays the raw HTML code for your WordPress theme's header file.
- 4). Locate and click the "<head>" tag near the top of the header file. Press the "End" key to move to the end of the line, and then press "Enter" to create a new blank line below the "<head>" tag.
- 5). Type the following code in the blank line:
<meta name="description" content="This is the description of my website." />
Substitute the description that you would like to use for the sentence "This is the description of my website." - 6). Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Update File" button to save the description to your WordPress theme's header file.
