# Remove meta description as required field

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/remove-meta-description-as-required-field/64704>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/remove-meta-description-as-required-field/64704 "2022-09-08T14:12:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![expressdesignch](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/expressdesignch/32/196331_2.png) [@expressdesignch](https://community.hubspot.com/u/expressdesignch)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/remove-meta-description-as-required-field/64704/1 "2022-09-08T14:12:37Z")

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Is it possible to disable the meta description as a required field. We have a link between meta description and blog caption. Now there are various articles which are not allowed to have a caption. So we should change the meta description from a required field to an optional field. Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![BarryGrennan](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/barrygrennan/32/97794_2.png) [@BarryGrennan](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BarryGrennan)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/remove-meta-description-as-required-field/64704/2 "2022-09-08T14:52:27Z")

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Hi @expressdesignch.

I’m fairly sure that won’t be possible. What I’d suggest is adding a custom field for your caption instead if there are going to be blog posts that don’t have a caption.

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