I entered the Verification META tag for Google and rather than getting a new meta tag, I just had the text I entered appear at the top of my page visible to everyone. Removed it and it was fine. Seems like there is a lot of redundant options however.

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HAg’s picture

HAg CreditAttribution: HAg commented

Its because you have to insert the hole lot: <meta name="google-site-verification" content="the verification code" />. Inserting the verification code alone won't work.

mgifford’s picture

mgifford
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Category: bug » feature

Ok.. Changing this to a feature request.

Please add verification to see that the full meta tag is added. Thanks!

Liam McDermott’s picture

Liam McDermott CreditAttribution: Liam McDermott commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

There's already a bug for verification, so I'm marking this one as a duplicate.

See: #1391860: Add validation for meta tags

:)