Joe Dooley

Hi guys,

I just wanted to let you guys know that I haven’t had a problem with Yoast SEO sitemaps on Pantheon in about 6 months. I have over a dozen sites using Yoast’s XML sitemap feature on Pantheon. I haven’t made any modifications to get things working either. One day it just started working. That was over 5 months ago. Take a look at a client’s current XML sitemap generated via SEO for WordPress by Yoast plugin.

Yoast Sitemap Screenshot

Also here is a screenshot from Google Webmaster Tools of that same sitemap above that I just resubmitted. Are you guys using an out of date version of Yoast? I don’t even get the redirect warning anymore about have to add code to the nginx config.

GWT Screenshot of resubmitted sitemap hosted on Pantheon

Hope this helps rather than frustrates. Josh, I’ll mark the issue as resolved. I forgot about this post when the issue was resolved a while back.

Thanks,
Joe Dooley

The plugin description says the plugin was only tested on Studiopress child themes. If you post the site url in the support section I would be happy to take a look. Thanks

Thanks for the great review. We appreciate it!

If you want to add another Genesis Footer Widget. Or even three more or take a couple away you can change this line in your functions.php… All you have to do is change the number 3 at the end to 4 if you want 4 Footer Widgets. Just like this…

//** Footer Widgets **/
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 4 );

If you want 6 footer widgets you would change it to…

//** Footer Widgets **/
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 6 );

If you want 2 footer widgets you would change it to…

//** Footer Widgets **/
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 2 );

Unfortunately, this will not create the required CSS to get the Footer Widgets to look right on your website. For that you can take a look at the CSS in my plugin or use code from Sridhar Katakam.

Thank you Sridhar!
https://gist.github.com/srikat/70814344274fb2efe130#file-gistfile4-css

Hi Jack – I’m sorry to hear the plugin isn’t working for you. Let’s try something, can you deactivate the Genesis Extender plugin so we can check to see if the fourth widget displays on the front end of your website. If the widget shows up we’ll know that the Genesis Extender Plugin is causing compatibility issues with Genesis Simple Footer Widgets.

Genesis Simple Footer Widgets has been tested on all Studiopress child themes and we didn’t have any issues with the Decor theme. Can you send me a link to your website?

Let me know the outcome. I will do what I can within reason to get this working for you.

Thanks!
Joe

Hi Okaiji. Yeah I’ve searched far and wide and haven’t had any luck. I reached out to Yoast and they wouldn’t help unless I purchased their plugin, but they wouldn’t gaurantee a solution.

I guess I’ll ask https://pantheon.io to write a supporting article that lists. Additional wp-config rewrites.

I’m assuming you haven’t had any luck?

kal2ennn,

If you want to make your social media font icons larger all you have to do is increase the font-size within your style.css file.

It looks like your font icons start on line 5475. You will be targeting these classes:

** Note: For some reason somebody used !important on your social media font icons. So if you try to target them without an !important tag you will just drive yourself nuts. So you will want to do a search on your style.css for the classes below **

.icon-salient-heart {
font-size: 36px !important;
}
.icon-facdbook {
font-size: 36px !important;
}
.icon-twitter {
font-size: 36px !important;
}
.icon-pinterest {
font-size: 36px !important;
}

Let me know if you need anything else.

The link explaining the robots.txt file in the WordPress codex can be found here.

With the robots.txt file the main purpose is to exclude the spiders from accessing those areas. This can be a fine line because you don’t want to block them from indexing your content which will hurt your SEO ratings.

To play it safe you could add something like I pasted below. I just updated my robots.txt file the other day and there are no blockages with this code.

The example the WordPress codex provides uses this code:

Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

# global
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */comments/
Disallow: wp-login.php
Disallow: wp-signup.php

If you are looking for an easy way to edit your robots.txt file you can download the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast which I couldn’t recommend more because of the ease of use, how well the plugin is built and the effectiveness. After handling SEO on my own before which took up way too much of my time and now using the Yoast SEO plugin found here I usually have my Blog posts indexed within two hours as long as they are 400 word plus articles and my pages are SEO optimized.

# Disallowed and allowed directories and files

# Define website sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/post-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/page-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/attachment-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/category-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/post_tag-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.developingdesigns.com/author-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /comment-page-
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /feed/
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

Hi mavachrt.

When you say you don’t know the source of the robots.txt file, do you mean you don’t know the url of your robots.txt file? ie… https://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt? If so, you can access your robots.txt file via ftp to make edits. Your robots.txt file can be found at this address, https://dellinspirons.com/robots.txt

May I ask what changes you are planning to make to your robots.txt file and why. I ask because a lot of users lay around with this file because they read an article online and wind up doing more harm then good.

After visiting your websiete at tsstreetmarketing.com it brought me directly to your homepage so the URL’s are all set up correctly. I’m assuming the problem your referring to is when I click on the Home link in the menu it then takes me to your contact form?

If my assumptions are correct you can fix this issue by going into the Appearance area of your WordPress dashboard, then Menu. Once in the menu area you will want to select the appropriate menu, it looks like you want to select Main Menu 1. Once there expand the first menu item, Home and change to link from https://tstreetmarketing.com/home/ to https://tstreetmarketing.com/.

Let me know if that fixes your problem or if you have any other questions.