wp_description() and description-tag

[henry.wright]

The wp_title() function is used by the title-tag theme feature to output specific page titles.

Ref ​https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_title/

What are your thoughts on having something like this for the meta description?

[desrosj]

Thanks for this, @henrywright!

In 4.1, the title-tag theme support was introduced (see #18548). This feature, if a theme opted in, would eliminate the need to call wp_title(). Instead, WordPress would automatically output the <title> tag using wp_get_document_title().

There was an attempt to deprecate the wp_title() function [35294] in favor of the more flexible wp_get_document_title() and this new approach, but this was ultimately reverted (see [35624]).

With this in mind, I would not be in favor of a wp_title() counterpart, but would not be opposed to wp_get_document_description() counterpart to standardize the description tag in a similar manner. But, I also don't feel strongly that Core should include this, so going to leave this for a second opinion.

[henry.wright]

Thanks for explaining @desrosj. Although historically a document description has been plugin territory, wp_get_document_description() would be a nice introduction in my view. I can see it being useful when theming.