jimh12345

Yes, that seems to work. Thanks for the quick and helpful reply.

Yes, “display:flex” seemed scarily generic. The theme is old, and the buttons used to align properly, but who knows. As a former software developer I really dislike the layered aspect of WP – everything’s declarative, not procedural, fingers pointed in all directions, no obvious way to debug a problem. I suppose if I had serious knowledge of CSS I’d at least know where to look.

Thanks for the insights.

Well that actually seems to work in my case, and it doesn’t appear to have broken anything else. So I rank this in the top 2% of WP fixes.

Of course I’d rather have found the root cause, and not just thrown more CSS into the hopper (what’s “flex” anyway?), but that’s probably beyond my understanding at present.

Thanks George!

Sadly, this option isn’t available with automatic image tiling.

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Ok, I just paid for Basic, installed and verified the license key. According to documentation, I should now have, on the Configuration tab, an option to “Enable Title/Caption below image”. But I don’t. I just have “Enable Title/Caption”, the same option I had with Lite.

I finally figured it out. Seems I can’t delete a post here.

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There’s at least one plugin that makes OneDrive files available from within the WP Media Library. Would those image files then be accessible rom Envira Gallery, like any others?

Doing it that way would be more work than just having Envira Gallery display OneDrive content directly, but it would probably be an acceptable workaround for me.

Yes, with a couple of tweaks, that worked, thanks.

1995 – ha. Back then I was up-to-date.

Hmmm… maybe this is not so simple.

I found out how to edit HTACCESS to add a redirect. I created a dummy WP page, pointed my menu item to it, and then, in HTACCESS, redirected it to my POD site. The redirect works, but GA never sees a page access. I know nothing about how GA works or what triggers it, but clearly the target page has to be served before I send the user elsewhere.

I guess I need some sort of code on my ‘dummy’ page to send the user elsewhere, ideally before the ‘dummy’ page renders.

Seems like a meta refresh tag might do the trick. But I haven’t yet seen how to add one to my ‘dummy’ page.

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Thanks.

Thanks George, that solved my problem very neatly. I don’t change the look of my blog often so I forget how all this stuff works – and how easy it can be to fix, when you know how.

George, here’s a post to which I just added a “Buy Print” button. I’d like it to be closer to the photo above it.

https://jimhphoto.com/index.php/2020/05/17/ids-center-icon-of-70s-cool/

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Some responses on the Google forum but no answers. Trying a different plugin is a good suggestion, maybe that’s the only way to get rid of the cached version and whatever bad data Google has created around it.

Is there any way to force the Yoast plugin to use a different name for the sitemap file, or to do something different in formatting, so that Google sees it as a different map and drops the cached version?

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I got a couple replies on the GSC community forum but they weren’t helpful. No one had an answer – the consensus seems to be that the displayed statuses are wrong, but there’s no way to know.

It’s frustrating that you can’t even delete a sitemap and try again. Maybe changing the name of the sitemap would cause the cached version to be ignored, but the plugin controls that filename.

Maybe a small site like mine doesn’t even benefit from a sitemap. When the crawler sees a sitemap with a small number of entries it might ignore it and just crawl the site directly.

Looks like I have to forget about sitemaps and try just submitting the URL for each new blog post directly.

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So far no replies from the Help Community. Searching there turned up posts on this exact problem going back years, many suggestions but nothing ever worked. I think that’s why I’m not getting any replies – it’s a dead end. Something in the Search Console, or the crawler, just doesn’t work and Google isn’t interested in fixing it.

I tried removing the sitemap and resubmitting – and immediately saw the same information restored, including the Last Read date from months ago, and the “couldn’t fetch”. So apparently you just get cached results and nothing changes.

I suppose one could try removing the sitemap and waiting a “very long time” before resubmitting it…

I don’t know much about permalinks but found out that mine are of type PATHINFO as described here:

Using Permalinks

I haven’t found anything negative about PATHINFO links. They just seem to be a different way of constructing a permanent URL.

My site also has a subdomain for a SmugMug photography gallery. I’ve added that subdomain to GSC, and submitted its SmugMug-generated sitemaps, which are apparently used without issue. That’s why I’m trying to find out what’s different about the sitemap for my main site, and why Google claims it can’t use it.

I’ve posted this question in Google Search Community but not received any answer as of yet.