kendrkaye

Thanks so much for getting back to me. I actually figured out the problem. It was a plugin I didn’t suspect that was adding a second set of meta data. I knew Jetpack had this feature and had made sure that was turned off, but I had forgotten Blog2Social also has a meta data feature. I had thought I had this turned off and it must have been turned on again somehow. I do apologize for not investigating more thoroughly before contacting you. Thanks again!

I wasn’t able to figure out a way to disable the pin it button completely from my shop page/product pages; however, you can disable the pin it button on individual images using the “advanced options” with edit image and type in “nopin” (without the quotes) where it says “image css class”. That was the best I could figure out. Hope that helps!

Thank you so much for your reply.

I have gone back to the Wordfence settings in WordPress and tried to go through the steps outlined for Siteground users, however, when I get to the step that says to select “manual configuration” there is no such option in the pull-down menu where it lists web server configurations.

What might be happening here?

Thank you,
Kendra

Thank you so much for your quick reply!

I am still fairly new to the technical side of blogging so please forgive my ignorance ??. When you mention TTFB do you mean that my hosting provider might be the source of the problem?

I use Siteground and through them Cloudflare, which was recommended for speeding up my site. I also have previously taken optimization steps such as using the query string plugin and minifying CSS.

I forgot to mention that GTMetrix showed specific images that should be compressed and most of them were the ones mentioned above that make up all the parts of the slider. I only have one image uploaded (basically using the slider to show a static image) and dont have access to those others to compress them.

I will take a look at expiring headers and look through my Cloudflare settings again.

Thank you for all your help,
Kendra

• This reply was modified 6 years, 12 months ago by kendrkaye.

Thank you for your reply.

I had previously reached out to the social share button support and they were unable to help me.

I did try several different social share button plugins and all gave me the same result of the strange character displays underneath pin image options.

I also found that those strange displays went away when I deactivated BOTH Yoast and Jetpack. When using Yoast alone or Jetpack alone I still saw the problem.

Jetpack suggested I get in touch with my theme support, which I did, and they suggested to contact Yoast.

If you have any further suggestions to try I would be so appreciative. At this point I feel that I’ve exhausted every avenue to pursue.

I also should mention that the strange character displays are only coming from the text that’s been pulled from the snippet editor in Yoast SEO, and not from descriptions I’ve written in the alt text for the images.

The snippet text is being pulled to put under my Gravatar profile picture as well as under the featured image picture – both these pop up as images to pin as well as any other image I’ve inserted into the post itself.

Thank you so much,
Kendra