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I have a similar problem.

I want to remove the chunky box-tabs of the primary menu in the top of my blog (History of Bad Parties – Contango theme) and show only the links on the main background colour without the box or any other decoration necessarily.

If that is not possible, then I would like to remove the vertical borders between the tabs and make the box slimmer / less chunky.

If none of that is possible, then I’ll just remove the primary menu from the top and put it somewhere else. However, then there’s some sort of stripe or frame left there, which I would like to get rid of.

I can found the “Primary Menu” section of the CSS, but can’t see what I need to change. I tried to make a few adjustments to try to identify the relevant bit of code, but it didn’t seem to have any effect, so I changed it back reasoning it wasn’t the right bits.

Yes, it is a Jetpack plug-in, part of the big “package” of plug-ins that comes with when installing it.

Ps. To my surprise, I do seem to get some traffic from Search despite having discouraged search engines, according to the referrers shown in Stats.

Thank you very much for your reply.

If you have a theme that allows for scripts in the header on a per-page basis, simply at this to the header script for that page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”no index, no follow” />

How do I know if it does? – How can I access the header of a post?

What if I just dump the code into the start of a post, will that have any effect? (I always write in the html view, has WYSIWYG permanently disabled)

I looked for the robots.txt file in my root directory and also in the WordPress admin editor, but haven’t found any file with a name that include anything with robots.

As you can hear, I know nothing about web design.

This will block Google from indexing that page. As a caveat, it may still appear in SERPs (search engine ranking positions) if other content is pointing to it.

So if there are other backlinks out there (i.e. on Facebook, on other blogs) pointing to the pages you want out of Google, then you’ll want to eliminate them or use the Google URL Removal tool.

There are, but that is OK. What I mainly want is prevent snippets of personal content displaying in Google searches (and other search engines) in somewhat irrelevant searches.

It isn’t that I want to hide my posts, I just want to try filter the visibility through relevant contexts, be it person-driven (like readers or me sharing with their social media networks, or feeds) or topic-driven (like direct links based on topic relevance)… so that irrelevant visitors are less likely to stumble across personal content out of context.

That makes sense! Thank you for for replying!

I use the Contango theme, and the “related posts” feature is part of the Jetpack plugin “package” (I just realised that).

You can see the problem clearly in this book review: If you look at “Related” under the post (which links to other book reviews), the thumbnail images are grainy because the display size is larger than the original images.

(the images are in this case located on Goodreads, but the same applies to my other posts where the images are located in my media library)

I can opt to not display thumbnail images under “Related”, just the links – but I like the images if they would just be smaller, e.g. with more white space between – so they match the original image size. Also, there is no need for them to be that big.

So I would like to edit/reduce the display size, but I don’t know where – I don’t even know what the feature is called in code, so I don’t know what to look for even if I find out where to look.

I would like to delete this post since there has been no response, and I have checked the plug-ins and know there is nothing like what I’m looking for – so I have rephrased and posted my request as feature suggestion instead.

Anyone knows how I can delete this one?

(it is not resolved as such)

To clarify: I don’t mean a Facebook Like button but an integrated WordPress like button, preferably where people don’t necessarily need to be logged in to anything.

I have the same problem. I don’t have index.html in my root folder, only index.php I have bought hosting and domain registration with same provider, in one go, and have used the “cheat” WordPress set-up (Softaculous).

Based on the above, I’m reasoning that I can expect it to go out of the “Construction” phase after 48 hours – right?

or was that only when hosting and registrar wasn’t the same provider?