# WordPress - add meta tags: author, description, keywords, etc

DevFeed: [WordPress - add meta tags: author, description, keywords, etc](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/wordpress-add-meta-tags-author-description-keywords-etc-27617.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://gagor.pro/2014/03/wordpress-add-meta-tags-author-description-keywords-etc/>)

Author: Tom

Published: 2014-03-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tomasz Gągor](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tomasz-gagor.md>)

Topics: [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>), [Search engine optimization (SEO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/seo.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [seo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seo.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

The author explains why they want to add author, description, and keyword meta tags to a WordPress blog, despite WordPress guidance that such tags are no longer necessary. They prefer creating a file in the current theme directory instead of copying header.php because theme updates may overwrite copied changes.

## Source excerpt

After reading some SEO stuff I wanted to add some meta tags to my WordPress blog. I found this site: codex.wordpress.org/Meta_Tags_in_WordPress external link . So WordPress thinks that it's not necessary to have this meta tags any more... But I want it! 😃 Next funny thing is how they suggest to add meta tags: copy header.php - what about theme updates?