grayson.king

Quick update: Google seems finally to have found my site! As I described above, my Google Webmaster account initially reported errors with the sitemap.xml file that I generated using the XML-Sitemaps.com tool. But now it seems happy, and reports no errors crawling my site. And Google searches for “poleclinometer” now return my site (and sub pages) as the top hit(s)! So I seem to be in good shape for the short term. But I’d still like to know what went wrong with the WP plugins in case I want to incorporate one of those again some time in the future to better manage my search engine optimization. So I’d still appreciate any insights any of youall might care to offer. Thanks! ??

Site is:

https://poleclinometer.com

Sorry for the botched attempt at formatting links. A “preview” feature on the forum sure would be nice so we might actually be able to see what we’re about to post.

Anyway, since posting the above I’ve tried manually generating sitemap xml files using XML-Sitemaps.com which seemed to work great in that it generated what looked like a perfect sitemap.xml file (plus sitemap.xml.gz and a few others) that I uploaded to my site and though I’d be good to go. Notsomuch. Google doesn’t seem to like it. Using my Google Webmaster account I was able to test the sitemap.xml file, and Google doesn’t seem to like that the URLs in the sitemap.xml file are being redirected. It says: “Redirect error: Redirect error HTTP Error: 301”

Stumped again. Sure hope somebody can help!

Hey JR,

I feel your pain. I posted a very similar issue just a couple days ago, having not seen your post. In the end I’ve come to the conclusion that twenty fourteen is actually *designed* to push left and right aligned images into the margins at certain browser window widths. Try playing around with sliding your browser window width between very narrow and very wide, and watch what happens to your web page and especially your images. I think you’ll see the images “line up with the text” like you’d prefer, but only when the browser window is narrow enough.

Anyway, I’ve come to accept this as a “feature”, and I’ve re-designed my site to make better use of it. If *all* of your images are left or right aligned, then it actually looks pretty good, and nothing looks out of place. I honestly think it’s pretty slick the way twenty fourteen (mostly) seamlessly handles changes in browser width. Well designed pages will look good on everything from a smartphone to a monster monitor.

HOWEVER…. I see two remaining problems, as I reported in the thread I started:

1. It’d be nice if we could have control to tune the behavior a bit, and/or completely turn off the feature that puts images into the margin if we prefer.

2. There’s major issues with this feature when you start changing things like content width and such, and things start looking downright UGLY, like images going mostly or entirely off the screen at certain browser widths.

I bet there’s a solution to both of the above, and I’ll bet someone out there could come up with an elegant code to tune and/or disable (per #1 above), and maybe to fix (per #2 above) some of the problems with, this “aligned images in the margins” feature. But I’m afraid I’m not that person; this is way out of my league.

Good luck. Hope somebody here can help you out.

OK y’all, I’m coming around to viewing this as a “feature”, and I’ve reworked my site a bit to take advantage of it, and essentially work *with* it rather than *against* it. Basically, if I left or right align ALL of the images on a page, then everything looks consistent. So even at browser screen widths where the images fall into the margin, when they *all* do, everything looks fine, rather than looking like one image is misplaced with respect to the rest of the page content.

So I’m good for now, and am not in urgent need of a solution. HOWEVER, I’m not marking this as “resolved” yet for two reasons:

1. I still think it’d be nice to be able to control or tune this feature, and/or turn it off altogether, rather than just accepting how the twenty fourteen theme chooses to behave in this regard.

2. There is still a major problem with this when I tweak settings in twenty fourteen. When I set content width to something wider than the default 474px, things get really wonky, and instead of my aligned images just falling into the margin a bit, they go completely off the screen at certain browser window widths, where they’re totally invisible, or only a small portion of them is visible. This behavior is clearly NOT by design, and I’d consider it a significant bug.

I’m not going to take the time now to capture this last point in screenshots. But I’d still like to keep this thread marked “unresolved” in hopes that somebody, at some point, will explore this issue and maybe find an elegant solution.

Sincere thanks to you who looked at this, and especially to you who responded.

Thanks Evan. And sorry for the bumping. I’m beginning to suspect that the “problem” I’m reporting may be a “feature” of twenty fourteen, and that’s why it looks “fine” to you guys. But I’d still like to find a way to turn it off, because it’s NOT the desired behavior I’m looking for.

Can you please have a look at the screenshots I provided initially to see a clear example of what I’m describing as the “problem”? The only difference between the “good” and “bad” screenshots is that I changed the browser window’s width just slightly.

I’m very frustrated that I can only get left or right aligned images to display the way I want them to at certain browser window widths! I now suspect that twenty fourteen is specifically designed to move left or right aligned images into the margins at certain browser widths. But I want to turn that feature OFF if at all possible. Clear?

Thanks again for looking. Could you please have a look at the screenshots I provided, and then look at the site again while changing the width of your browser window? I’m confident you’ll see the problem/feature/issue I’m describing.

Thanks for looking Jay. Not sure how you’re not seeing the problem. I’ve checked in Chrome and Firefox and now even Internet Explorer on multiple machines, and ALL exhibit the exact same problem. Did you look at the screenshots I provided to see a clear example of the problem as I see it?? This problem is persistent, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix it. Really hoping somebody can help.

Bump. Can anybody help me??

Bump, and quick update….

I’ve moved/redirected my WordPress site, so the first link I provided originally is now broken. The correct link is as follows:

https://poleclinometer.com/use/

Still hoping somebody might be able to provide some assistance with this rather obnoxious little problem. Please help if you can! ??