johnnyivan

I should add that any re-direct that might have been created by Yoast’s ‘slug editor’ (above) hasn’t appeared in the .htaccess file where I created my other 301 redirects.

I made those to deal with any broken links/search results to/for my old site.

Hi Michael and Md,
Thanks for your attention on this.

Yesterday, I discovered edit snippet Yoast facility and changed the ‘SLUG’ (?) to:
/newspaper-illustration-book-lost-village-john-mckenna/
which also changed the SEO friendly URL.

Q: Perhaps that accounts for the re-direct?

Also, regarding what I posted earleir:
‘Allow search engines to show this Project in search results?’ is set to:
‘Default for Projects Currently, yes’

Should search engines follow links on this Project?
Yes

‘Meta Robots Advanced’:
‘Sitewide Default, none.

Q: Is the latter setting causing problems?

Re: Cacheing, I don’t have any at present. Which might account for my site’s sluggishness.

Re: Michael’s 1.) Submit each URL you want re-crawled using the Fetch as Googlebot tool.

I’m not sure which ones to submit. Q. Is it the 10 or so that search console lists in one place, or the 150 (unknown ones) in the search console graph?

Sorry for the barrage of info and questions!
John

Back again…

I can confirm that all of the Yoast > Search Appearance > Content Types: have been set to ‘show’.
—————
Within this page:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/portfolio/newspaper-illustration-book-village/
I checked a project post and clicked the Yoast gear/settings icon:

‘Allow search engines to show this Project in search results?’ is set to:
‘Default for Projects Currently, yes’

Should search engines follow links on this Project?
Yes

‘Meta Robots Advanced’:
‘Sitewide Default, none.

John

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by johnnyivan.

Hi Md,
Thanks for the help.

Actually, I posted a second page above, which is affected, the original one I posted no longer is affected for some reason.

I’ll try those tips you gave me now–if I can find the means to do them.

Thanks ??
John

(sorry, not trying to ‘bump’ this up or anything)

Here’s one of the pages which is now supposedly blocked by robots.txt.

The page I linked to in my original post (above) appears no longer to be listed as blocked.

https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/portfolio/newspaper-illustration-book-village/

The odd things is, in one ‘Search Console’ screen it lists 10 as affected.

On another graph it lists over 150!

Very confusing.

Incidentally, I just checked my robots.txt.

All that’s in it is this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Hi Azadanari,
Thanks for that guide.
However, if I try to edit a WP ‘Page‘—as opposed to a ‘Post‘—Yeost doesn’t offer the index/no-index field.

Thanks,
John

Hi Steve,
That column has between 706 or 716 pixels width available.

The container inside that column for the images — div id=”attachement” — has 700 pixels width avaialable, and only 3 px of padding.

So, I don’t understand why WP has squashed the image when there’s about 200px more horizontal space for it to expand into.

John

I don’t actually know the reason for that. Another WP site of mine is shrinking them.

Hi there,
The image seems to be centre aligned, not with an alignment CSS property but by making it a block element with margin left and right set to ‘auto’. So there’s no alignment set on the text, allowing it to default to the left.

Q: Is it possible to select only the caption text and align it ‘center’?

Q: If not, how comfortable are you with editing CSS?

John

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by johnnyivan.

Hi Kathryn,
Thanks for the message.

I have search in the top and bottom of the site now using the ‘Add Search To Menu’ plug-in, as I said above. But I might take a look at the method you’ve given above. Just not sure if I’m able for such technical stuff!

Sorry, I just updated my post above, not realising you’d replied!

I’ve found that I need to delete any spaces between the link tags, otherwise WP creates BR tags making all the tag cloud links stack. It’s not a big deal though.

Thanks for reminding me about the ‘count’ numbers. I’d have to copy and paste all of the code each time!

I tried one of those. Pretty good. All of them seem to appear in the sidebar only.

Funnily enough, I then found that the built-in tag cloud widget will display Jet Pack portfolio types and tags too. I’m sure I didn’t see that before.
Here it is on my site:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/wordpress/tag-cloud-page-private/
I’ve created a custom menu item that points to this next page. I’ve copied the source code into it, from the former page:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/wordpress/project-tags/

I wish I could get the tag cloud or list DYNAMICALLY into the content area. Seems that with the ‘List Custom Taxonomy Widget’ plug-in
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/list-custom-taxonomy-widget/#description
it is possible to make the list appear in other non-widget areas but it involves editing the theme’s code, and is therefore beyond me technically.

Copying the HTML into a page’s content area as I have, works. But I’d need to re-do this whenever I add new tags to my projects.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by johnnyivan. Reason: updating

Thanks Kokkie,
I’ll check those out now.

I now have my sub-project types in my main nav, which is great.
John

OK, I had a look for a plug-in. I found:

‘Add Search To Menu’

It’s not very elegant, layout-wise (on my site, anyway) but it works. Here it is on my site, both in the top main nav menu and in the bottom social links menu:
https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/wordpress/