sherioz

OK. It works now. Thanks.

This is the response I got from my web designer:

Image markup guidelines

When marking up an image URL as a property of a type, make sure that the image actually belongs to the instance of that type. For example, if you mark up the schema.org/image property of schema.org/NewsArticle, the marked-up image must directly belong to that news article.

(https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data#multiple-entities-on-the-same-page)

The way I would interpret that is that the image will have to be displayed within the body of the article. I wouldn’t know how to change their mind on that one.

No. I’m not using a plugin to make the featured image. I just make it on paint.net and upload in the featured image spot.

Thanks Tahoe Rock – I ended up sending the link to this discussion to my web designer and she handled it for me. I am flattered that you think I should have understood your explanation above.

I now see the share buttons and that is a great relief. I hope this will also be reflected in my traffic from this point on.

If this happened with an earlier update of the theme, then I am very sorry I did not notice that. There is almost nothing more important than share buttons when we want to bring readers to our articles. I would prefer share buttons to follow-me-on buttons, if something has to be cut. And I don’t like the fact that once my site is up and running, I need to go back to my web designer to make changes due to updates to the theme. I should be able to maintain the site myself and have everything doable without having to know code.

I cleared the cache. However – I think you are referring to the Follow Me On Buttons and not the share-this-post buttons. The red email button is totally unconnected. There are no share buttons.

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(Sorry. I should have thought of that myself)