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I’m also experiencing the same issue as @fulanoinc and also have custom post types. Responsiveness works on pages but not on the custom post types. Responsiveness was working with 4.5.2 and I upgraded to 4.5.7 yesterday, and started experiencing the problem where columns stay beside each other and shrink in width, but do not slide beneath each other on mobile.
Thanks for your help.
Hi:
Maybe this will help.
If you visit the settings of the Enfold Theme Options page, down near the bottom there is a dropdown box to “Select Your Editor”. It should be set to Classic Editor. Hope this helps.
One more…When editing a column, the description for “Highlight Column” checkbox reads “Hightlight this column by making is slightly bigger”
It should read “Highlight this column by making it slightly bigger
Any updates on this issue? Experiencing it myself. Have activated original theme, instead of child and still unable to view the maintenance page I defined. Have logged out and used different browser to ensure it wasnt related.
Thanks for the additional info @Ismael. Have a great weekend.
OK, I’ve modified the child’s theme functions.php by adding the `add_filter( ‘avf_nav_search_icon_nofollow’, function( $att ) { $att = ”; return $att; }, 10, 1 );
` code.Is that all that needs to be done at this time until it is included in a future patch to remove the nofollow from the search?
Thanks.
If I’m understanding correctly, the `add_filter( ‘avf_nav_search_icon_nofollow’, function( $att ) { $att = ”; return $att; }, 10, 1 );
` should be added to the functions.php file, correct? If so, does an option to disable the rel=nofollow appear within the theme or does is it applied from the functions.php?I have cleared server and browser cache and reset permalinks, however, the rel=nofollow is still in the code.
Thanks for your help.
Wanted to check back in on this thread to see if the information had been shared and if any feedback yet. Thanks.
IMO, by using the nofollow on the search link, it sends a signal to the search engines that the link should not be followed, which is not really what is required to fix a duplicate content issue.
“It is understandable why some bloggers – especially those with larger sites or those without the time necessary to go through a blog link-by-link – are opting to either nofollow all external links, or worse, nofollow ALL links, including internal ones.”
See: http://www.thesempost.com/dont-nofollow-all-links-for-outbound-link-manual-action-recovery/
We recommend making sure all internal links on a domain are marked as follow links. Search engines interpret internal nofollow links as a signal that content is being hidden.
“But John Mueller said on Twitter yesterday that your mobile internal linking structure does not have to be exactly equivalent but it should be crawlable.”
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-mobile-internal-link-structure-25012.html
See John Mueller video here:
https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/optimize-website-navigation/“Google Generating Search Pages on Your Site?
Google has begun entering search phrases into search forms, which may waste PageRank & has caused some duplicate content issues. If you do not have a lot of domain authority you may want to consider blocking Google from indexing your search page URL. If you are unsure of the URL of your search page, you can conduct a search on your site and see what URL appears. For instance,The default WordPress search URL is usually ?s=
Adding
User-agent: *
Disallow: /?s=
to your robots.txt file would prevent Google from generating such pages .See: http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/
In the following example, it’s referring to the noindexing of the search results pages, which the website administrator should handle with blocking in the robots.txt OR through the SEO plugin of their choice. It doesn’t mention anything about setting the search link to nofollow:
See: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/on-page-seo-checks-need-conduct-periodic-basis.html“An example of a low-value page would be the ‘search result’ page. You might have a search box on your site, and there is a possibility that all search result pages are being crawled and indexed. All these pages contain nothing but links, and hence are of little to no value. It is best to keep these pages from getting indexed.”
Further down the page, you’ll find the following referring to multiple versions(otherwise known as “duplicate content”:
“Another example would be the presence of multiple versions of the same page in the index. This can happen if you run an online store and your search results have the option of being sorted.
Here’s an example of multiple versions of the same search page:
– http://sitename.com/products/search?q=chairs
– http://sitename.com/products/search?q=chairs&sort=price&dir=asc
– http://sitename.com/products/search?q=chairs&sort=price&dir=desc
– http://sitename.com/products/search?q=chairs&sort=latest&dir=asc
– http://sitename.com/products/search?q=chairs&sort=latest&dir=descYou can easily exclude such pages from being indexed by disallowing them in Robots.txt, or by using the Robots meta tag. You can also block certain URL parameters from getting crawled using the Google Search Console by going to Crawl > URL Parameters.”
Again, it doesn’t mention anything with regards to setting the link to the search results page as a nofollow.
Hopefully, the above will provide further information. Maybe it would be beneficial for the theme developers to consult with an SEO expert such as Michael Torbert or Joost de Valk. Just a suggestion.
Below are two examples of the error from two different SEO Tools:
Thanks, Ismael for the reply. Appreciate the input.
By adding the “nofollow” attribute to the search link, we are telling the crawlers not to follow, and in turn not index…
Just for clarification, nofollow and noindex serve two different functions.
NoFollow: provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en
NoIndex: prevents a page from appearing in Google Search by including a noindex meta tag in the page’s HTML code, or by returning a ‘noindex’ header in the HTTP request. When Googlebot next crawls that page and see the tag or header, Googlebot will drop that page entirely from Google Search results, regardless of whether other sites link to it.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=enI’d be curious from the other users who are reporting the duplicate content, if they are using an SEO plugin, how they have it set up(if they have the archive, categories and tag pages set to noindex, what they may or may not be blocking in the ROBOTS.TXT file, etc.
Thanks for the updated code, will put in place and do some testing.
Not sure if your response was to HokusPocus, however, your answer really didn’t answer my response or question.
In referring to the article you mention from Google(https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en),
“Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”
Further down the page, it explains that some of the cases which you would want to use “nofollow” would be:
1. Untrusted Content
2. Paid Links
3. Crawl prioritizationA “nofollow” on the search link really doesn’t meet any of those criteria and we also know that by placing a nofollow for internal links, sends a signal to search engines that the information it is linking to is questionable, which we don’t want to do as since it is internal content, we want it to be followed.
The attribute is only added to the search tooltip icon, which we suspect is causing duplicate content issue.
Also, I’m not sure I understand the philosophy behind implementing a change to the theme based on a suspicion, without further proof that it IS causing or fixing an issue.
In my case, I’m receiving an error message from within SEO software scanning that the search link in the menu is set to nofollow which is not advised.
If duplicate content is the issue, then I would think that a noindex would be the correct way to handle.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
Just trying to understand and ensure that my sites are optimized to the best that they can be. Thanks for your help.
Would like to follow up with regards to the Enfold theme setting the search results to nofollow.
Is there a way to disable the Ajax search function from rel=nofollow to rel=follow as it is important for search engines to follow the link, but not necessarily index.
Thanks for your help.
After seeing quite a few others experiencing the same error, will this error continue occurring until PHP is upgraded? Some folks are in a situation where they cannot upgrade to a later version of PHP. Does this mean that Enfold will no longer work with earlier version of PHP?
Didn’t get a white screen but did get
“Notice: Undefined index: use_standard_lightbox in /home/acad/www/wp-content/themes/enfold/functions.php on line 329 Notice: Undefined index: use_standard_lightbox in /home/acad/www/wp-content/themes/enfold/functions.php on line 358”Haven’t had the opportunity to create new account for you however, in my case , it wasn’t a function of the icon links working. They always worked. My issue was dealing with the 404 error within Google search console.
After looking at Search Console again today, found the 404 errors again for the ones that I though I had fixed. Thought I had fixed the problem by not using the social media links on the team member block but instead on the team members profile page. I now suspect that it is directly related to the actual social media icon. Will try to create a basic text link to see if problem persist.
Below is the link as it appears in Search Console as an example:
%%sitefolder%%/%%sitefolder%%/%%sitefolder%%/https:/www.linkedin.com/in/%%USERNAME%%
“Googlebot couldn’t crawl this URL because it points to a non-existent page. Generally, 404s don’t harm your site’s performance in search, but you can use them to help improve the user experience.
Just to report back. I tried everything suggested and was unable to make the errors go away. Not the ideal situation, but I just did away with the social icons from the team members block.
I have the differing layout issue resolved.
I discovered that the Blog Setup style within the Theme Settings was set to Elegant style instead of Business style, as shown in the demo. After changing it to Business Style, the date issue also fixed itself so that it shows the actual post date instead of the last updated date. No explanation, but the issue is resolved. Thanks.
1. Yes, I’m sure it is showing the last updated date. Here is a screen shot of the actual live page: http://screencast.com/t/ZHveknDa
Here is a screenshot showing the dates for the posts: http://screencast.com/t/wzkF0rv8CASgNot sure if you saw my second post above, but it may provide a clue in what is wrong.
“I have installed the church demo, and see that in the demo, that the dates appear to match the original post date, and the layout shows the date near the title. I’ve compared the Grid Posts settings on the demo and my own installation, but cannot see any differences. Thanks again.”
Even if it is not a clue, I’m still curious in why the two styles for the page. I would prefer the page to be setup as in your demo so that the date appears at the top of the excerpt.
My page: http://screencast.com/t/YbqM9kv9QXH
The demo page: http://screencast.com/t/WGVRDqQxJtdThanks
I have installed the church demo, and see that in the demo, that the dates appear to match the original post date, and the layout shows the date near the title. I’ve compared the Grid Posts settings on the demo and my own installation, but cannot see any differences. Thanks again.
As an update, I just logged in to check some settings, and everything is working properly. We are currently running 3.5.4. We are not aware of any recent changes other than implementing another theme to test (those themes worked properly) and renabled Enfold. Can’t explain it and haven’t ever had a situation like that, especially with as many times as we disabled the theme, reinstalled the theme, etc.
Some things you can never explain. ;-)
Currently, we’re running 5.3.14. Are there any external URLs that the theme refers to? Could be possible that the firewall may be blocking access to those files. Thanks.,
Thanks. This is a new install with no plugins activated.
We are beginning to wonder if it may be a PHP version issue. Because this is a production server with hundreds of WP installs, we are unable to upgrade PHP at this time. Thanks for your help.
