extinctdisney

Well, I’m glad to know its not that I’m missing something glaringly obvious but… the plot thickens…

I went out to a post and manually edited the description for it (note that right now it’s using a default of %seo_description% for each post). I entered a test description and then attempted the export again. Now, when I type “rank” to search for the available export fields, I do in fact see a new entry but it’s “rank_math_schema_BlogPosting.” I went ahead and exported all 140 posts of that field and sure enough, the post I edited is the only one that shows anything entered there. I thought this was good news, except this is what I see in that field on the export:
a:9:{s:8:”metadata”;a:4:{s:5:”title”;s:7:”Article”;s:4:”type”;s:8:”template”;s:9:”shortcode”;s:15:”s-(… it goes on forever)

Now I will note that in addition to changing the description for this test, I also changed a field in the same window for the schema type to change it from “article” to “blog post.” So, I went back and undid that change to see what happened. Sure enough, I no longer had the “rank_math_schema_BlogPosting” field after typing “rank” to see the available fields for export but rather “rank_math_schema_Article” and the same coded entry that goes on forever.

In doing this I realized maybe editing the description in that schema edit section isn’t correct (note I am simply following the directions Rank Math provides on how to edit your description) so I grabbed a plugin that adds an editor to each post where I can manually populate the “meta description” and tried that. After adding a description using that plugin I went back to WP All Export to check the fields. What was particularly interesting here was that the “rank_math_schema_Article” was still showing but not a meta description field. It also didn’t appear to change my description at all so let’s just assume that plugin didn’t do what it said it should.

I think the assumption that, because Rank Math has the description set to automatically populate using the first (however many) characters of the actual post, that it isn’t being seen as field like it should be because technically its not in use. What I can’t seem to figure out though is how to actually find and edit that field even manually, to get it to then appear in the export drop down.

After all of the above troubleshooting I realized that the page I found on how to edit the description (snippet) for each post on Rank Math’s site was misleading and that there was another way. I went back to one post and edited the snippet directly, rather than via their edit screen for the schema, and sure enough on my next visit to the Export I found “rank_math_description” as an option. I completed an export of it and tada it exported all 140 posts, with blanks in that field, save for the one where I entered “this is a test” where I see “this is a test” in the field.

So in short: The thinking that because a manual description hadn’t yet been entered for any post, the field wasn’t showing up in the export, was a correct one. Thank you!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by extinctdisney.

As an aside – I tried two other export plugins and they all present the same fields only. I believe the field I’m looking for is “rank_math_description” correct? I tried to manually export that field and it returns the post ID. Is that expected and if so, would I then replace that number with the description?

Unfortunately I don’t believe I can restore a backup from before the update (I have one but I think the WP update would cause it to fail).

I attempted to use the WP All Export and then WP All Import plugins to redo all 140 keywords and titles and it doesn’t appear to have worked either. I will continue to troubleshoot.

Thank you.

Disabling plugins didn’t change anything. On a whim I just went out to the WP All Export plugin to run an export and found that, when I create a new one, the _yoast_wpseo_focuskw
field is no longer shown.

Further, when I run an export that I ran before this trouble started, it finds that not only are all 140 keywords missing, all the titles are too. This doesn’t seem to be something that could possibly be specific to my site as, I ran a successful export and fixed up the titles and keywords the day before the WordPress update, and now everything is gone. It very much feels like something bigger than that.

Yoast SEO Plugin Version: 16.1.1

Screenshot of warning stating all 140 are missing the keyphrase: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-hsnynH8wo7gLamvVI11o2wnyHtbY8MA/view?usp=sharing

If I go into a post and look, the keyphrase shows as blank. Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/178-izPzHpWmqov9M81VKnm-M17VfFpGI/view?usp=sharing

The answer to my question is that this css needed to be placed in the overall custom css for the theme. I understand it was designed to target just that block but what I was asking was where should the css go. I had originally placed it in the “Additional CSS Class(es)” section of the Advanced editor for that block specifically. It needs to go into the full site custom css.

Thanks

In trying this, it appeared to only make the heading smaller. The white space was unchanged. To confirm, should this css go in the css for the block or the page overall?

I am referring to the landing page I’ve been speaking about throughout this thread.
https://www.extinctdisney.com/
If you visit that, you’ll see space above and below the H4 heading of “Jump In” above the Related Posts block.

Sorry, I’m not sure that’s the answer I’m looking for. There is white space above and below the block heading. How would I remove that with css?

Thanks so very much. That fixed the heading size in the block but now, I have an increase in the amount of white space between the heading and the posts. Any thoughts on how to resolve that?

Apologies, let me clarify.

I have set the Related Post plugin settings to have the title set to H4 and it is working as it should on all the automatically placed instances of the Plugin (as can be seen on this post: https://www.extinctdisney.com/food-rocks/).

It is not, however, working where I have used the gutenberg block on the landing page (as can be seen here: https://www.extinctdisney.com/). When the block is added, the only options are to change what the title above the related posts says and, despite it being set to H4 in the settings, where I have manually placed the block, you can see where it says “Jump In!” is not an H4 sized heading.

I believe the issue was related to the fact that the landing page wasn’t in any categories.

Found alternate solution.

Solved this myself – the issue was the main page was not categorized properly.

No page builder or template. Just adding WordPress blocks and shortcode where I want it with plugins that control what is visible on mobile vs. desktop.

Simply entering “[CRP]” into a shortcode block doesn’t seem to do anything. Is there no further context?

For giggles I entered the php code using both the code block as well as a plugin that converts php to shortcode and neither worked.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by extinctdisney.