Severe BuddyPress conflict

  • Resolved msteimann

    (@msteimann)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    I’ve searched the internet for a couple of hours but could not find a workaround for this issue:

    BuddyPress setup works by creating two blank pages – members and groups. If I type in a meta description in Yoast for both and preview the pages, the description text is added to the page header and gets properly displayed in the page source text.

    But as soon as I assign the two pages to the BuddyPress plugin, the description gets stripped completely. In the page source appears an author note that a description needs to be added.

    I could live with that, but I urgently need to make my members page and all its related members profile content invisible to search engines. The severe problem is, that the Yoast settings „noindex, nofollow“ are stripped too.

    The BBpress Forum page is not affected by this issue. Yoast can apply a meta description and the „noindex, nofollow“ command, which is a good thing.

    Can someone please help me out with a solution?

    Thanks in advance,
    Martin

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  • Pcosta88

    (@pcosta88)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    We do know Yoast has some integration issues with BuddyPress. However, we need your help. We are not sure if this an issue or not. We would like some more information.

    A. Can you elaborate more on how the blank pages – members and groups get created? We are not familiar with BuddyPress so we are not sure what settings were selected to create those two specific pages?

    B. Do we also need BBPress activated on the site too?

    C. Can you confirm you are using the most recent Yoast SEO, v10.0?

    D. Are all your non-Yoast plugins and themes also updated?

    Thread Starter msteimann

    (@msteimann)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thank your for your reply @pcosta88 !

    A. Please create two blank pages yourself and name them „members“ and „groups“. Go to the WP dashboard – settings – BuddyPress and check all items in the „component“ tab. Then move to the third tab „pages“ and assign (chose from the drop-down-menue) your newly created pages to „members“ and „groups“. That’s it. If you add to both pages a meta description in Yoast and set index and follow to your needs, these additions do not reflect in the source text of the pages. They are simply not present at all.

    B. I guess not, as BBPress seems not to be affected by this particular issue.

    C.Yes, I used 9.7 and now v10.0, which does not solve the issue.

    D. Absolutely yes.

    Please let me know if you have any further questions. I am really glad you’re taking care of this problem!

    Regards,
    Martin

    devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Based on the information you provided, we expect this to be a bug. We’re actively using the bug tracking on our GitHub repository so your best next step would be to create a new issue for our developers at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new. You will need an account to create a new issue. If this is your first bug report, please check out: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-write-a-good-bug-report/.

    Don’t forget to include the URL to this conversation in your bug report.

    Thread Starter msteimann

    (@msteimann)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your suggestion @devnihil !

    I posted (my first) bug report on GitHub and hope I got it right and the Yoast team is able to fix this bug soon.

    https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/12435

    Regards,
    Martin

    Jerlyn

    (@jerparx)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for reporting this to our devs @msteimann!. We’ll close this thread as the update will be provided on the GH report submitted.

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