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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [OceanWP] Invisible Mobile Menu?Well, Good news, bad news. I couldn’t figure out how to change the color via the third-party plug-in so I added the CSS–worked great. So then I tried to add a search menu item to the mobile menu and then menu vanished again. This time it really seems not to be there. Installed the plug-ins that I had just added but no luck.
Screen shots of my settings–I’m missing something obvious. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
–Darin
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/u3ayffg1ltnig4jptmi6f/h?dl=0&rlkey=6he8p6t8ivo6fxn2t2ykvxnss
Hi,
I don’t see any sort of preview button. I copied the URL and logged out and then went to that URL and it looks the same–with the shortcode visible.
Looking at the settings/basic section, it looks like Manage Subscription and Unsubscribe are both set to this page. isn’t there a default text for both or do I need to do something custom?
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] How to determine Google rank for post?Hey devnihil,
I think I must have phrased my question poorly–sorry–I don’t think I’m looking for any sort of deep analysis.
I’m just wondering if Google shows me the same results as they are showing you, for the same search terms, and if not how do I find out how a given post ranks.
I assuming this is a question suitable for this forum since we’d want to know how a post ranks to see if Yoast improve that ranking???
–Darin
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Insert tag within body of post?Oh! Thanks, Joy. Now I get it. Seems rather obvious in hindsight but I was very much stumped.
Thanks so much!
–Darin
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [OceanWP] Too much space above and below blow title?Also, there is an additional white space above a faint line at the top. Would love to get rid of that, too.:)
–Darin
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [OceanWP] Too much space above and below blow title?On both the main blog page and on the individual blog article pages… 🙂
–Darin
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [OceanWP] Too much space above and below blow title?Screenshot at link. The areas I’m hoping to shrink are outlined.
https://www.abiggercamera.com/WordPress_Screenshot.jpg
Thanks,
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problemsHi,
O.k. Well, “B” (above) is new–it wasn’t listing on Google when I wrote the above.
I *think* everything is working correctly now, although I’m not 100% sure what I did to fix things. It all seems to start improving when I manually entered the tripod review SEO title, but who knows.
Thanks to everyone!
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problemsO.K., here’s an update. I left everything alone for a day or so to see where it stabilized at.
1) Good News: All of my posts are on Google and can be found via “site:” search.
2) Good News: Things seemed to improve immediately after I manually entered the SEO title on the oldest problematic post (Tripod Review). I did not manual enter dats on any others.
3) Bad news: However, several tag and category posts are there too, and all of these rank above my article posts in the “site:” search.
4) Bad news: When I search on Google with for that problematic tripod review post using the title of my post, followed by the name of my blog, followed by my own name I’ll get three pages of results–none of them mine. Maybe I’m in the others that Google isn’t showing because it thought them similar to the included ones? (All the other posts show as the top hit when I use the title, blog name, my own name–just that tripod review one is the issue.)
Problem post:https://www.abiggercamera.com/2020/08/22/review-the-peak-design-travel-tripod-a-fiddly-evolution-in-camera-support/
Your thoughts are welcome! 🙂
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problemsUpdate:
@sunilmodi mentioned a possible solution–replacing the Yoast automatically generated SEO title text with my own (same words). I had two posts that Google was not indexing so I tried it on one of them last night.
I just checked and GSC is now showing that the post I changed per @sunilmodi instruction is now happily indexed. The post I did not change to my own SEO text is still not indexed (with an exclamation point next to “Indexing Allowed?”).
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problems>>In addition, the “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” has the correct subtext for the post but if you click on the link it goes a weird version of the main page, but with that post on top and earlier ones below, but no newer ones.<<
The link is to a category, not a post, in this case. Why are there links to categories?
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problemsHey @jeroenrotty
Actually, I’m the OP, not @sunilmodi.
I did submit the sitemap to Google. There was a bug in Yoast where the sitemap.xml was linking back to the main page but per instructions on this forum I redid the permalink and the sitemap.xml performed correctly.
As I mentioned in my second post, despite GSC saying the post is not on Google it *does* appear, but with the wrong title. For example, on the tripod review post you can see it at site:abiggercamera.com under the title “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” which is the wrong title. Likewise the other posts appear but with the wrong titles.
In addition, the “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” has the correct subtext for the post but if you click on the link it goes a weird version of the main page, but with that post on top and earlier ones below, but no newer ones.
Something is very weird…
Any idea what the exclamation point in GSC means, next to “Indexing Allowed?.”
I can see that Google may need time to index a page but I don’t understand how GSC says it is not on Google while at the same time the pages DOES appear, but with the wrong name?
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problems@sunilmodi, thanks, I’ll try that with one of them and see if it works. But Manually doing each post’s SEO title is a bumper… 🙁
Also, I checked the Google Preview with Yoast for each page and they all display correctly there, just not in Google itself.
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Yoast SEO] Google indexing problemsO.K., wait, it’s weirder than that. On site:abiggercamera.com most (but not all) of the pmts are there–the names are just wrong.
For example.
“At Dead Indian Pass” is listed as “A Bigger Camera -”
“Smaller Cameras” is listed as “Uncategorized Archives – A Bigger Camera”
“Crater Lake Blue” is listed as “Darin Boville, Author at A Bigger Camera”
“Review: The Peak Design Travel Tripod, A Fiddly Evolution In Camera Support” is listed as “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera”Note that two of those–“Dead Indian Pass” and “Review: The Peak Design Travel Tripod” are listed in GSC as NOT being on Google…very odd…
–Darin
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WordPress Gallery Plugin - NextGEN Gallery] Full frame thumbnails?I did find this from four years ago:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-thumbnail-suggestion?replies=2
Are uncropped thumbnails really not possible in NextGen Gallery without a workaround?? That seems very strange.
Anyone?
–Darin
