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Hey Rikard,
My apologies for the delay. Email notifications from this support forum went to my Junk folder. The credentials are below.
Thanks!
Hi Ismael,
In your recommendation for adding to the robots.txt file you include: Disallow: /*?s=
Is there a purpose for the asterisk? I’m asking because the URLs in my GWT soft 404 report do not show an asterisk and I continue to accrue soft 404 errors despite the fact that I have added your recommended text to my robots.txt file. Also, I have verified that GWT has the correct robots.txt file for my site. Here is a sample link from my GWT:
what-is-the-annual-income-for-a-travel-nurse/?s=
Thanks for your help!
I’m also experiencing this issue as I suspect is every website using enfold with search. Are we certain there is not another solution besides altering the robots.txt file? This was not happening prior to updating enfold to the newest version.
Also, I received the notification below from Google this morning and all of the URLs in Goggle’s soft 404 report are for url/?=s.
Increase in “soft-404” pages on “my website name here”
To: Webmaster of “my website name here”
Googlebot identified a significant increase in the number of URLs on “my website name here” that should return a 404 (not found) error, but currently don’t. This can cause a bad experience for your users, who might have been looking for a specific page, but end up elsewhere on your website. This misconfiguration can also prevent Google from showing the correct page in search results.
Recommended Actions:
1
Identify the URLs with errors
Open the Crawl Errors report in your Search Console account to review the list of sample URLs.
Check Crawl Errors
2
Fix the issue
Check your server and CMS settings to make sure that these URLs return a 404 (Not Found) or 410 (Gone) HTTP response code in response to requests for non-existent pages. You may need help from your server administrator or hoster for this step.
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Verify the fix
Once you’ve fixed the URLs with errors, make sure that Googlebot can access and see your content properly, or that they return a proper error result code. You can verify this using Fetch as Google.Thanks for the reply, Ismael. My apologies, but I’m a bit confused. It’s recommended to adjust a line of code that affects the $author_name variable. However, this variable is used in two places. It’s used to correctly display the name of the author in: if( !in_array(‘author’, $exclude) )…It’s also used incorrectly to display the name of the publisher (identified as an organization) in: if( !in_array(‘publisher’, $exclude) )…
I believe this is a mistake in the theme’s av_blog_entry_markup_helper function that should be fixed. ‘$author_name’ should not be used for the <span itemprop=’name’> of the Organization in the publisher markup. I believe there should be a separate variable to hold the name of the organization, or this markup should be removed from the theme’s schema markup altogether.
That said, I patched the issue by hard-coding the company’s name in the publisher markup: <span itemprop=’name’>Company Name</span>
Thanks!
I provided a link in the “Private Content” field. Just a heads up: I removed the markup for “datePublished” and “dateModified” as these have a negative impact on my site’s SERP rankings. However, this doesn’t affect the markup for “publisher” / “Organization”. The markup is the same with or without the markup for the dates.
Thanks!
Thanks, Elliot. If the theme is working the way it’s intended to work, then I’m cool with that. Honestly, I thought there must be something wrong on my end that was causing it to behave this way. I just assumed that this was intended to work like breadcrumbs. So there’s no need to look into it any further and you can mark this issue resolved. I do think that it would be a good feature to add for the future if possible.
Thanks!
My apologies, but my expertise with the codex and code in general is limited. So please forgive the laymen terminology that follows.
To answer your question: I would like the list of categories to display in their hierarchical order as it makes no sense to display them in any other order.
I assumed that the purpose of the feature I’m referring to was to display the categories in which the particular blog post is entered. If this is correct, then the system should display the categories hierarchically….ie parent>child1>child2> and so on.
I would be surprised if this isn’t the way the feature was intended to work. Why would the categories be listed in alphabetical order? It really makes no sense. I have used over 20 different themes for my own projects and client projects and this is the first I’ve ever seen that lists categories in alphabetical order instead of hierarchically. Listing them hierarchically ensures uniformity across the site and provides the user with an accurate account of the structure of your content. Listing them alphabetically does the exact opposite. Any explanation you can provide would be helpful.
Perhaps the theme should use http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_children to properly display the categories within which a blog post is entered? Or use the same function that displays breadcrumbs?
Thanks!
Hey,
Thanks for the information. Given this, I am hoping that I can somehow increase the height of the images. Is this simply a matter of changing the height to 360? For example
Change This:
$avia_config[‘imgSize’][‘entry_with_sidebar’] = array(‘width’=>710, ‘height’=>270);To this:
$avia_config[‘imgSize’][‘entry_with_sidebar’] = array(‘width’=>710, ‘height’=>360);The reason I ask is because the default aspect ratio is not good for social media. In particular, I have found that Google+ will display the featured image as a tiny image at Enfold’s default aspect ratio instead of a large image. It’s similar on Twitter and Pinterest. You can view a sample on my G+ profile here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KyleSchmidt1/posts You’ll see the tiny picture for the second post down on the left.
To answer your previous question, I have always used a right sidebar. Something that may be important to know is that prior to the most recent Enfold update, I noticed that the images on my blog posts stretched farther right so that the right side of the image ran flush against the right sidebar container. I always thought this was weird, but didn’t worry about it. With the most recent update, this changed and there is now padding between the right sidebar and image, which is undoubtedly intended.
It’s also important to note that I have always increased the size of the right sidebar and decreased the size for the content container in functions.php as follows:
$avia_config[‘layout’][‘fullsize’] = array(‘content’ => ‘twelve alpha’, ‘sidebar’ => ‘hidden’, ‘meta’ => ‘two alpha’, ‘entry’ => ‘eleven’);
$avia_config[‘layout’][‘sidebar_left’] = array(‘content’ => ‘eight’, ‘sidebar’ => ‘four alpha’ ,’meta’ => ‘three alpha’, ‘entry’ => ‘eight’);
$avia_config[‘layout’][‘sidebar_right’] = array(‘content’ => ‘eight alpha’, ‘sidebar’ => ‘four alpha’, ‘meta’ => ‘three alpha’, ‘entry’ => ‘eight alpha’);Again though, this has always been the case. My blog url is blog.bluepipes.com.
In any case, if you could let me know how I can properly increase the height of the images, then that would be great!!
Thanks so much for the help!
Kyle
I have the same question. I looked at the data for one of my posts in Google Webmaster Tools’ “Fetch as Google” tool and could see where the date was being displayed for the post. I removed the following code from the loop-index.php file:
echo “<time class=’date-container minor-meta updated’
$markup>”.get_the_time(get_option(‘date_format’)).”</time>”;
echo “<span class=’text-sep text-sep-date’>/</span>”;I emptied all caches (I use W3 Total Cache) and used the Fetch as Google tool again and the date no longer appeared. I assume this will work, but will have to wait and see how Google reacts. In the mean time, I just want to make sure that this is the correct thing to do? Or is there another preferred method? Basically, I want to make sure I’m not breaking things!
Thanks for the support, guys!!
Hello,
I am experiencing the same issue with this page:
http://blog.bluepipes.com/advertising/
Thanks for your help!
Kyle
http://blog.bluepipes.com/advertising/
please let me know when you’ve viewed it so I can change it back to table display….Thanks!!
Thanks for the code to control the order of the widgets, Peter!
I contacted the Adrotate plugin author and his response was that the enfold theme is not using the default wordpress widget settings. I’m not sure whether he’s right or not, and it’s not important. I was able to address the issue with a feature from wordpress’s Jetpack plugin called “Widget Visibility” which provides features to control what pages a widget appears on. I just wanted to share this information in case it might help other users.
Thanks again for your help!!
I could have sword that attempted this to no avail prior to posting in the support forum. However, this worked!!! Thanks!!!!
I have added this code and it’s still not working unfortunately. Please let me know what else I can try.
Thanks!
here’s a sample page in case you need it.
http://blog.bluepipes.com/is-your-resume-optimized-for-the-ats/
Thanks, Josue. Above you said you’d look for a solution to the issue with sticky posts showing for a second time in the blog list. I just wanted to let you know that I’m not concerned with this. It seems to be a wordpress issue….not a theme issue. I feel better looking for potential fixes elsewhere so as not to abuse or tie up your company’s resources on this issue. So you can close this issue if you’d like. Your service with theme issues has been amazing and is greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Yes, I believe I am referring to the type of blog pictured above. However, it’s not functioning the way I anticipated. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong or my expectations are incorrect.
I was expecting the theme to use one image size on the blog pages (a thumbnail) and a different image size on the post pages. I am performing the following steps: 1) uploading an image to the wordpress media library. The size of this image is 710×360 (which i believe is the max size allowed by the theme for a post image). 2) Setting a thumbnail for the image within the wordpress media library with a square size as described above. 3) Adding the image as the blog post’s featured image.
With these steps, I was expecting the theme to call on the large image for the post image and call on the “thumbnail image (smaller square image) for the blog page. This is not happening. Instead, the theme is using the large image and cropping the image to a square resulting in awkward unusable images.
Are my expectations incorrect? If so, is there a way to make the theme use the large image for the post page and the thumbnail for the small image on the blog pages?
Thanks
Thanks for the prompt reply. The link is below. After looking at the issue a little more….I’m wondering if the homepage is showing a total of 9 posts because I have four posts set as “sticky”…and somehow those aren’t being counted as part of the 5 posts per page….so it displays 9 total (4 sticky and 5 regular)
Also…you’ll see the sticky posts repeated on page 2 of the blog.
I hope all is well. Thanks, again!
