Hi Ismael,

I do have child themes, The problem is updating the theme. It breaks the site.

I get a blank screen if I override the Enfold files manually. The automatic updates don’t work because of the host.

Having to delete all parent theme files and then uploading the theme again brings the whole site down for too long.

Thank you so much!

Havi

Hi Yigit,

Kinsta confirmed they are one of those platforms. Manual update it is!

Thank you so much!!

Havi

Hi Ismael & Basilis,
I will review this again. Am I supposed to upload something to that site or were you replying to Steve?
Thank you guys!!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Basilis!

I let things cool off and posted a new portfolio and it created a /feed/:

It now shows up as a 404 on the Search Console:
photogallery/photo-gallery-creative-wedding-tent-decor-ideas/feed/

Linked from https://bodasyweddings.com/photogallery/photo-gallery-creative-wedding-tent-decor-ideas/

Any other ideas?

Thank you!!!

Havi

Hi guys!!

I think I am onto something here. This may be the solution.

We need to exclude the Portfolio Pages from the WordPress RSS feed via the Child’s functions.php file.

Here’s why:
1- these are pages, not posts and now they have started appearing on the New Search Console’s report as a Crawling Anomaly.
2- if they are treated as posts, then they cannot use the advanced layout editor, correct? It would be the same as using the Advanced Layout Editor on a Post. It turns it into a Page.

Can you please help me exclude the Portfolio Pages from the WP Feed? (Or provide me with more feedback on my reasoning)

Thank you so much!!!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi guys!

This is just an update.

I reached out to Yoast, they indicated this feed should not be getting indexed and to check for conflicts.

I decided to run several experiments with the portfolios setup in different ways:
1- Title inside of the page and remove social media buttons from the plugin
2- Title from theme (not Advanced Layout Editor) so Social Media buttons appear right after it
3- Portfolio page with standard editor (not Advanced Layout Editor)

So far, no errors have been detected by Google Search Console on the above scenarios. So, I think there may be an issue somewhere in there.

I had to add a bit of CSS to the Title so it would show the proper color when it was displayed above the page body.
/*title portfolio*/
#top .alternate_color.title_container .main-title a {
color: #80b7b3 !important;
}

I will keep an eye on it for a week or two and let you know if the error gets crawled again. It maybe too soon.

Personally I think it could be the ESSB Plugin blocking something (as it seems to happen when those buttons display above the Title.

I’ll keep you posted!!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Nikko!!

I thought you would want to see how beautiful the sliders look right now (on the real site) :)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!

Warmly,

Havi

Thank you Nikko!!

More than likely I will have to make the arrows appear lower than they are, so just adjust the top value, right? That’s from the top of the slider, correct?

This is going to be awesome!!

Thank you so much!!!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Victoria!!

No problem. I disabled caching and minification. What I’d like is those arrows to stand out.

background: #67b6e1 !important; (without the gray overlay – it is white right now to be able to show your the gray that dulls the color)
color: white;

and it’s not a font, is it? It’s a char code? Can I use \ue888 & \ue899? If not, how can I make the arrow bolder?

Is it possible to add rounded corners and shadow (like the theme buttons)?

My goal is to make them stand out and work with the theme.

Thank you so much!!!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Nikko!

Yes, that’s what I had in the beginning but it doesn’t quite work. There’s a gray overlay. I’d like to make the arrows more visible (that’s why I moved the title under them – so that the eyes go towards the navigation) That has been my goal all along. Make it really clear to the site visitors how to navigate te slides.

Here’s the CSS I have for all the changes you see on that page:

/*slider arrows css */
#top .avia-smallarrow-slider .avia-slideshow-arrows {
width: 150px;
height: 50px;
}
#top .avia-smallarrow-slider .avia-slideshow-arrows a {
background: white !important;
color: #67b6e1;
width: 50px;
height: 30px;
font-size: 25px;
font-weight: bolder;
}
.html_elegant-blog .avia-content-slider .slide-entry-title {
padding-top: 1px;
font-size: 1.1em !important;}

.html_elegant-blog .avia-content-slider .slide-entry-title {
text-align: right;
text-transform: none !important;
padding: 0 40px 15px !important;
}

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Victoria!

I will pass this on to the Kinsta guys. There is not an .htaccess file on Nginx (that’s only on Apache) but the ESSB plugin checks the resources and I did see that max.input.vars is 10000.

Would adjusting this take care of both issues?

I’ll keep you posted on their reply.

Thank you!!

Havi

Hi Basilis!!

Tried it but it didn’t work. I think it need one more reference to the slider itself. I’m sending you the credentials to get in and check it out for yourself. It’s a bit complicated to explain but I know when you see it, you’ll know exactly what I am referring to. :)

Thank you!!!

Havi

Hi Ismael,

I broke it down into 5 jpgs and here are the links. Please, do not publish the draft portfolios as this is a live site. Yes, there are a lot of images as the client has a lot of portfolios. Also, Kinsta has uploaded images (that I later deleted from the WP image library – please make sure I can do the same with yours) take them as thumbnails, you can use the same draft and upload new images to the same spots.

Kinsta indicated they had to upload 13 images to replicate the frozen screen issue. I have seen it happen at 18 images (as long as you don’t save the draft and keep on working)

For the second issue (the disappearance of the ALT text – this happens on all of the Enfold installs I manage when uploading and image via the Advanced Layout Editor) it happens most of the time (e.g., 5 images will keep the ALT text you entered and one won’t then 3 images will and 2 won’t) I have gone back and manually entered the ALT text via the WP image Gallery, one by one. But once, you are done uploading images via the Portfolio’s advanced layout editor, you can check the image library and see where the ALT text is missing.

Here are the screenshots to follow to replicate the issue (I added them to my Google Drive):

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TZdt7nfoVcP6ceA4Bfu-d-lzINffwt6l?usp=sharing
image 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14g1bEUuO0egM65kBanuOMhdV2FfrDNPP/view?usp=sharing
img 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10VzlmA-k2GzNJc0xHh1skOEX_4tICe9i/view?usp=sharing
img 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YmLBkNqz0m6R06DfMBQMgEFydiE5596i/view?usp=sharing
img 4
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZqNR6aKGbs7Hj558BJBJbsndWchTBNzN/view?usp=sharing
img 5

I really hope this helps (this is the exact manual Kinsta followed to replicate the issue and they did)

Thank you so much!

Warmly,

Havi

Hi Basilis!!

How are you?

Here’s what happens. Search Console starts to show indexation and consequently 404s of the portfolio pages feeds. They shouldn’t be indexed in the first place.

So, if you add Disallow: */feed/ to the robots.txt file, you stop getting 404s and you start getting a huge increase of blocked resources reported on Search Console (not just for the portfolios but for every page that produced a feed)

Blocking resources produces a very adverse reaction from Google on the SERPs (they want to see everything)

Does this help?

My question is, how to I add a noindex tag to the portfolio feeds?

Meanwhile I am going to remove the disallow feed from my robots.txt as I don’t have too many portolios for now.

Thank you!!

Warmly,

Havi