Update post SEO title and meta description is a WordPress ability from SEOPress — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
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DestructiveSet or clear the custom SEO title and/or meta description of a specific post.
Requires the SEOPress plugin on WordPress 6.9+ for the Abilities API — abilities are registered only when wp_register_ability() exists, gated by the plugin's own seopress_abilities_api_available() check. Each per-post ability additionally requires the current user to hold the WordPress 'edit_post' capability for the target post (and the post must exist); the global title settings ability instead requires the SEOPress capability for managing title settings, which defaults to manage_options and is filterable via seopress_capability().
What it does
This ability wraps SEOPress's TitleDescriptionMeta REST controller (processPut) to update a post's custom SEO title and/or meta description. Only the fields actually present in the input are changed; passing an empty string for either one clears the existing override so the post falls back to SEOPress's global template. SEOPress marks this ability as destructive and idempotent in its own metadata since it directly overwrites (and can permanently clear) previously configured SEO copy. It's the ability behind letting an AI assistant rewrite a post's title tag or meta description straight from a conversation.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Update post 128's SEO title to 'Ultimate Guide to Espresso Machines (2026)' and clear the meta description so it falls back to the site-wide template."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| post_id | integer | Yes | The ID of the post to update. |
| title | string | No | New SEO title. Pass an empty string to clear it. |
| description | string | No | New meta description. Pass an empty string to clear it. |
Returns
An object with a single 'code' string field — "success" when the title/description update completed.
Permission
The current user must be able to edit the target post (the WordPress 'edit_post' capability for that post ID).
More SEOPress abilities
Analyze post content
Run the SEOPress content analysis on a published post and return the SEO score, checks and recommendations.
Get global title & meta description settings
Retrieve the site-wide SEOPress title and meta description templates and separator configuration.
Get post robots settings
Retrieve the robots/indexing directives of a post (noindex, nofollow, canonical URL, primary category, breadcrumbs, etc.).
Get post SEO title and meta description
Retrieve the custom SEO title and meta description set for a specific post, page or custom post type entry.
Get post social settings
Retrieve the social (Facebook/Open Graph and X/Twitter) title, description and image metadata of a post.
Update post robots settings
Update the robots/indexing directives of a post.