How to optimize Google Site Description / Results for News Plugin/ Discourse Site

Kris,

Here is the strange thing - I have both areas filled out (and always have), but these fields
seem to be completely ignored by google and don’t show up in the google listing for the site:

Here are my inputs:

But still, in google, this is all they show:

Is it possible that ThePavillion’s News Plugin I use to make my site into a “blog” on the home page - causing problems for google?