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It is still there, but may have been turned off with the upgrade. Click on the ‘Screen Options’ button at the top-right of the menu page, and you should be able to re-enable it.

Be very aware that Google won’t show your site high in the results straight away. It can take months or years of serious SEO to get that done. Remember that there’s several 1000’s of other sites trying to rank for the same as your site, and they are all older, bigger and have more backlinks and authority.

SEO is a long game, especially for popular keywords. Be prepared for it to take a long time and need a lot of work.

Without being able to see anything the only answer is the z-index. But, remember that for a z-index to be applied to any element, you also have to set the position value as well otherwise it won’t be applied. The elements also have to be at least close in the DOM tree otherwise other elements can mess with them.

If it’s something like this, it should work (totally made up, no resemblance to real world):

.header {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}
.content {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 0;
}

You bought an expired domain. Those links would be from that old domains website, not yours. You can’t do anything about it because there’s nothing to be done.

Be patient and let the back link systems catch up to the new site and don’t worry about what they say for the old domain. That’s what you need to do.

Where/how are you checking backlinks?

Keep in mind that most services will be caching those results, so anything done in the past few days/week/month(s maybe) will not out-of-date, depending on the system that you’re using to check.

If you can’t find it you’ll need to go back to who ever wrote your theme and ask them. they’ll know, where no one else here will have any idea.

If you really need to have pages there, you should be able to set up a custom template file for that archive page. Looking at the hierarchy details you should be able to set up a file called archive-services.php and that will be over-write any existing template that the services post type uses. You won’t be able to edit the content in this the same way as a standard page, but that’s how it works.

You will need to find where that CPT is registered. From what I’ve seen there’s not any other reliable options for this.

The other option is to use a different URL. If /services2 isn’t good, then something like /our-services might be better? Remember that the vast majority of users don’t care what the URL is, they just want to see the page, so changing URl’s like this is really only for the benefit of search engines.

Are you maybe thinking about permalinks? You might need to reset those if you’re getting 404’s on pages like that.

The area for that in the admin, is under ‘Settings -> Permalinks’.

That means that there is a page/post/something that uses that URL slug already. What that is… may be hard to tell without digging in the database. If you looking there you’ll see in the wp_posts table and search in the ‘post_name’ column you should be able to find what it is.

But, that URL is also redirected to the homepage somehow. That could be something in your WordPress site, in the .htaccess file, or n some other way in your hosting account. You should get that sorted out before you do anything else.

The Google information on your site may be old. Their indexing doesn’t update automatically, and it can take anywhere from days to months to get re-indexed.

On your site I can see this meta tag:

<meta name=’robots‘ content=’index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1‘ />

That tells me that the home page is set to be indexed as you’d expect.

No one here has access to the code for that theme, so we can’t see anything to do with it, or it’s settings or set up.

And you say that you “used it for free”… How exactly? It’s a commercial theme that you need to purchase, so in order to use it on your site you need to have purchased a license for it.

That looks like it’s a setting somewhere in your theme, or your pages layout.

As your using a commercial theme, you should ask the author/vendor of that theme for support with this as commercial themes are not supported in these forums.

Adding plugins on the WordPress repository is partly about giving back and partly for the increased exposure. If you want to sell the plugins, that’s great, but you won’t be able to list them with WordPress.

Listing them on her means that you take all of the hassle out of updates, there’s an already-built support system and you are adding to the community. The bard parts is that you have to adhere to the standards and you won’t be able to sell anything.

Listing them yourself on your own (or a third-party) website means that you have to take care of all updates yourself, which means your own update server, and you have complete control over your own code and how it’s formatted and what it’s used for. The downsides are that you don’t get the repository listings as you do here and unless you do a lot of active advertising, you might not sell much, if anything at all.

Please note that I’m not a member of the plugins team so I can’t say exactly what they would and wouldn’t require, so if you need more information it’s worth joining the WordPress slack and checking in there as that seems to be the best place from what I’ve seen around the forums.

You said it in your own post… It’s all to do with screen resolution and display quality.

On a laptop at 2560 a pixel is tiny. Difficult to see where one meets the other. That’s why retina screens looks o good – tiny pixels that “trick our eyes into not seeing them.

On a desktop at 1920 pixels are larger. Depending on your screen size then can be massive. These don’t blur together anywhere near as well for human eyesight. Hence, they will never look as crisp.

This all has got nothing to do with your images, the website or WordPress. It’s 100% to do with the hardware that you’re using to display the site.

Those images aren’t blurry as such. They are just smaller then their image size, so things like text will always appear to be not quite as clear because you’re compressing the image size so browsers need to interpolate that and decide how to compress the larger image into a smaller space. That’s why they look better for you when you zoom in.

The ideal way around this is to display the images at 100% size so that they don’t have to scale. Either that, or set it up so that the images can open up a lightbox or link to the full-sized images so users can see then at full size.