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# SEO titles & meta descriptions

TMN writes an **SEO title** and **meta description** for every article it generates — the text search engines show in results. It works with your existing SEO plugin, and stands in for one if you don't have it.

## Turn it on (it's on by default)

Meta generation is controlled by your **Generation Preset**, under **SEO automation**:

* **Generate meta title**
* **Generate meta description**

Both are **on by default**, so you usually don't have to do anything. The same SEO-automation group also generates **tags** and **schema**. Switch any of them off in the preset if you'd rather handle them yourself — see [Use presets](/building-a-site/presets.md).

## Works with your SEO plugin

When a post is generated, TMN detects your active SEO plugin and writes the title and description straight into **its** fields — so they appear in that plugin's editor and on your live pages, exactly as if you'd typed them in. Supported plugins:

* **Yoast SEO**
* **Rank Math**
* **All in One SEO**
* **SEOPress**
* **The SEO Framework**

Detection is automatic — there's nothing to configure. If you switch SEO plugins later, newly generated posts write to the new plugin's fields.

{% hint style="info" %}
TMN **also** keeps its own copy of every title and description, alongside the SEO plugin's. So nothing is lost if you change or remove your SEO plugin.
{% endhint %}

## No SEO plugin? TMN handles it

If none of the supported plugins is active, TMN serves the meta itself:

* It outputs the **page title** and the **`<meta name="description">`** tag on each article, so search engines still get the right values.
* It adds a lightweight **"SEO Meta (TMN)"** box on the post editor where you can read and edit the meta title and description by hand.

That box only appears when no supported SEO plugin is active — when one is, you edit the meta in that plugin instead.

## Editing after generation

You're always free to tweak what TMN generated — your edits win.

* **With an SEO plugin** — edit the title and description in that plugin's panel on the post, as usual.
* **Without one** — edit them in the **SEO Meta (TMN)** box on the post editor.

## Where it's stored

TMN writes the title and description to two custom fields on every post:

* **Meta title** — `_tmn_meta_title`
* **Meta description** — `_tmn_meta_description`

It writes the active SEO plugin's own keys too, so both stay in sync. Developers can change or extend the destination keys with the `tmn_seo_meta_keys` filter.

## Next

* [**Use presets**](/building-a-site/presets.md) — where the SEO-automation toggles live.
* [**Generate & publish articles**](/building-a-site/generate-articles.md) — meta is written as each post is created.