Correct meta of Writing Meta Tags

Question

How to write this Head section thing correctly in Wordpress.

<meta name="author" content="The Zebra Team">
<meta name="description" content="The Zebra Team">

I was doing it like this -

<meta name="author" content="<?php the_author(); ?>" >
<meta name="description" content="<?php the_content(); ?>" > 

But then it was not showing me anything in the head section. I think I am doing it correctly then what is the issue?

Answer 1

I think you have to check if the loaded page is a post, and use the Wordpress loop to get the right data.

<?php 
if ( have_posts() ) {
   while ( have_posts() ) {
      the_post(); ?>
      <meta name="author" content="<?php the_author(); ?>" >
      <meta name="description" content="<?php the_content(); ?>" >
   <?php
   }
}
?>