stuartmcmillen
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Some of my RSS feeds have stopped working / mergedYes, ‘comics_en’ is the slug for the category ‘Comics’ (English language).
comics_el is the slug for ‘Κ?μικ?’ (Greek language)
comics_pt is the slug for ‘Quadrinhos’ (Brazilian Portuguese language)
comics_zh is the slug for ‘漫画’ (Chinese language)…strangely the feeds now seem to be working… See:
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/feed/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_el/feed/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_pt/feed/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_zh/feed/Any idea why WordPress would be dropping in and out like this?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Polylang] RSS feed bug. Possibly related to Polylang?Well, not exactly.
See my reply on the main bug post to clarify the problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Some of my RSS feeds have stopped working / mergedTo clarify the situation:
The feed should only display ‘comics’ posts. i.e. those that appear on the ‘Comics’ page for each language.
So for those currently viewable through the blog feed, the only ones that should be appearing through the ‘comics_en’ feed should be:
26/06/12 22:00 Thin Air
and
22/05/12 17:00 Type IIIthe others are blog posts, and should only appear in the blog feed.
So for some reason, the website is recognising that the ‘comics_en’ posts should appear on the Comics page, but not in the Comics feed.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Some of my RSS feeds have stopped workingOK, I’m not sure what happened, but I checked those feeds today and the 404 errors are gone. They are working fine.
Am really not sure what caused the problem/solution, but I’ll take it!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: RSS feed displays differently in Google Reader versus my /feed/Thanks for the reply, but I don’t understand your message fully.
Which dashboard settings are you referring to?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] W3 Total Cache and Nginx issuesI’m in the same boat. In fact I started a post on this forum which did not get a response. I am still getting the error messages which I reported 1 month ago.
Two questions:
- What is the likelihood of W3 Total Cache offering better native support for nginx in the future? (Is it possible? Or are there just too many server variations to make this workable).
- Does anyone have specific fixes for drtanz and I?
(BTW thanks for your message haddow777 – I want to know a little more about changing from the default W3TC conf settings before trying your suggestion).
Well spotted Joost!
I have let the developer of the other app know to add a
</script>tag to his code.Now both my Google search results and Facebook descriptions are working properly. (Except for the Supernormal Stimuli post, which is mysteriously not displaying properly in Facebook…but I can live with that, as every single other page/post seems to work properly. Perhaps this a legacy issue to do with the old description being cached in FB?)
Hi Joost,
I think I just enabled Facebook integration via the ‘Social’ page of your plugin.
However, Facebook still doesn’t seem to be behaving properly. e.g. when I submit this webpage as a link to Facebook, the following text appears as the description:
Great to be with you on your new site. Exciting to see the evolution of your work over the past 20 years – can you believe that! As thought provoking and informative as ever. We await the next. Warm wishes.
…which are random text from the ‘comments’ section of that page. That is despite the following being in the <head> section of my source code:
<meta property='og:description' content='A reptile brain sits deep within us. How much of our behaviour comes from primal instinct? 20 page comic on supernormal stimuli.'/>If you look at my source code, you can also see the meta-description in the <head> section:
<meta name="description" content="A reptile brain sits deep within us. How much of our behaviour comes from primal instinct? 20 page comic on supernormal stimuli."/>However, Google still seems to be ignoring this. Their description is still just random text from the page:
Read more about the supernormal stimuli concept in the blog section of … Paul & Deb McMillen says: 27 Apr, 2012 … Excellent work, Stuart.
Joost, can you suggest a reason for these two errors?
Also, I was wondering if the advice on this blog post is still valid.
The author is suggesting that adding his customised code to the nginx .conf file will work better than the W3TC default, as it uses ‘if’ less in the code to follow nginx best practices. Has Frederic made any recent changes to the W3 Total Cache support for nginx which makes his argument outdated?
thefrugalette, it doesn’t seem as though my Facebook problem has been fixed. Right now it is still just grabbing random text from within the page.
The default thumbnail image that Facebook chooses seems to be whichever image has the smallest file size. In my opinion, it should be choosing the image which is closest to the top of the page.
Can a WordPress SEO by Yoast developer comment on this thread? Should the plugin be helping Facebook display the description, or is this not a supported feature?
An update to my second post in this thread:
I believe my problems may have been caused by not having
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>in my header.php file. Will wait until Google re-indexes me and see if my hand-written SEO descriptions appear.
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…I will also wait and see if this fixes my initial question about Facebook snippets choosing random text. Will report back.
Another question from me, possibly related to the initial question.
My hand-crafted SEO meta descriptions do not appear to be showing up properly in Google search results.
For example, do a Google search for “supernormal stimuli” comic. My webpage should be the #1 result.
Instead of my hand-crafted meta-description:
“A reptile brain sits deep within us. How much of our behaviour comes from primal instinct? 20 page comic on supernormal stimuli.”
…Google is displaying the following text:
“Certainly we have enough spare time,. Velociraptor raptor dinosaur skull brain human silhouette drawing cartoon. Supernormal stimuli work on …”
…which is random text from the TITLE tags of the images on that page.
(interestingly there is a mirror copy of my website from my staging server listed in the Google search results…the meta description for that page is showing up perfectly as intended).
It is interesting that the SEO title is showing up exactly how I specify, but not the description.
Can anyone suggest why Google would be ignoring the meta descriptions which I am entering via Yoast SEO plugin?
Gotcha. Thanks for the response.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Polylang] [Plugin: Polylang] How to internationalize a theme ?I have had the text of my English blog translated into Greek and Chinese by people who speak those languages.
I just realised that WordPress/Polylang does not support the Greek and Chinese characters which I copy and paste into the forms of my WordPress dashboard (e.g. adding new Posts). Characters such as “关于” just show up as “??”.
Is there a way for me to simply copy the .mo files for these languages into the theme’s directory so that the text shows up? A “poor man’s” translation without the WordPress strings fully translated.
I am hoping to launch ‘readable’ Greek/Chinese versions of my blog in a hurry. I would then take my time to use Codestyling Localization to fully translate the site/theme.
Let me know if this will work ??
Also, what exactly do you mean by ‘declare the domain’ in the original post?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Polylang] Example websites using polylang?Thanks for that Christian.
I notice that with both of those example websites, the URL is formatted with each of the pages having a ‘page ID’ e.g. /?page_id=2.
Just wondering if that is a requirement of polylang, or just an unrelated WordPress Permalink settings choice for those websites?
Is it possible to customise polylang so it uses page name, instead of page ID? How much customisation of the page name/Permalink is available?