#1. Something is really wrong there. The first description seems to be part of the headline when looking at the source code. Please ask the creator of your theme why he has decided to put the description into the title at templates/post/single.php lines 11-16. For my understanding of HTML this is really wrong!
#2. Nothing really to worry about. Yoast’s great plugin tries to analyze your posts’ content and give you advice on how to optimize for search engines. This works very well for normal posts which store their content in a singe database field. This field is being analyzed by the SEO plugin.
Recipes however a pretty complex. The description is stored in the ‘normal’ content field (and therefore being analyzed by the SEO plugin), ingredients are stored as taxonomies, ingredient-recipe relations, instructions and notes are stored in seperate field as post meta data. All these fields are not visible to the SEO plugin as they are put together by the layout files on display.
Fortunately this has no impact on search engine behaviour as they will crawl the output as your users are seeing them.
The only problem is that the SEO plugin can’t help you on optimization.
#3. Image alignment is something I’m still not really happy about. I’ve put it on the list for the next release.
However this is a difficult task, as sizes depend on the theme you are using.
I hope I could help you a bit.
Hi there
Thank you for the clarification regarding the different points.
I will contact the theme author and ask him to clarify the description issue.
One issue I forgot to mention is regarding ingredients. There is a second textbox, probably for a comment/additional notes about a specific ingredient. If one adds something, it appears, at least I think just like an extension of the ingredient & it could even be one sentence.
I use a very good recipe module on a Drupal 7 CMS-based site, which has a lot in common with yours. In this case, though – the added notes, ie in second textbox is automatically placed in brackets. The advantage is one knows, this is just an additional statement or comment to/on the ingredient in the first box, like
1 liter water (lukewarm) or even
1 liter water (lukewarm) [instead of 1 liter water lukewarm]
or
500g chicken breast (alternatively turkey or mutton can do) / 500g chicken breast (alternatively turkey) instead of 500g chicken breast alternatively turkey (though in this case, the logical sentence could do 😉 )
I have in some cases manually added brackets so far, but it would be cool if they were automatically there or some other form of highlighting to different the content of the 2 textboxes.
I assume of course, that the intended purpose of this second textbox is not too different.
Funny thing: there used to be brackets around the ingredient comment. I removed them after my wife complained. So I guess I will create another option for that …
Hi
Great you are considering adding this, at least as an option. Just tell “her” some crazy folks out there find the feature useful and it is not your choice. I hope she can live with that. 🙂
Regards
It’s an option in release 0.7.10. Have a look at the meta data settings page.
I’ve decided to leave the default to no separator. I don’t want to break installations that don’t want to make use of the feature. So you will have to enable it manually.
