John Overend
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Can I stick my nose in here?
I think making paged pages of archives would be a mistake.
Yoast (he knows a thing or two) asserts noindexing paged pages for archives is a mistake, and that what’s needed is the proper implementation of rel=next/prev (which Yoast does).
If that is done, Google doesn’t treat it as duplicate content and will be able to follow the links in the subsequent pages, giving better indexing to all listings.
If any noindex options are to be considered as part of the core, may I suggest there should be an easy option for sites with a single CPT to noindex either location or places, which serve exactly the same function under those circumstances.
Actually, we’ve discovered that since the clocks changed that any new listing created has +1 in the timezone by default, and the subsequent display is out by an hour. Easily overcome by changing it, but guess it’s a small gremlin.
Thanks Guust – that’s a better fit.
This only affected GD listings but, oddly, when I turned Query Monitor back on it cleared the error and seems to be fine now.
Having sorted the site I changed the files to make page headers H1 and to allow page titles even with Yoast enable.
The result is an error thrown on al single listing pages:
Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /var/sites/c/carsuk.net/public_html/wp-includes/meta.php on line 210
I reverted to GD titles and meta and cleared the cache but to no effect.
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Thank you; that looks like it fixes the H2 issue (yes, we are using GDV2).
It seems to have been dismissed as a Yoast issue, but perhaps I could try again?
Yoast offers no control over page titles (only meta titles). The GD control of archive page titles is useful, but lost if we use Yoast. If we use Yoast then a page like https://www.carsuk.net/places/essex/, which has a page title of ‘Motoring Directory Essex’ then just shows the ‘GD Archive’ page name. Not ideal.
Thanks
John
We’re using a Genesis child theme which doesn’t create archive titles by default. If we use the built-in Genesis functionality to have archive titles it creates them as H1. But those from GD are H2.
As I said, Yoast doesn’t offer title for archive pages, so had expected that would remain even if we use Yoast. But we can get round it.
Apologies; I thought this was a core plugin issue. I’ll start a new topic.
Should this not also apply to all category pages too? The location pages now show H1 after the latest update, but the category page headlines are still H2.
Having decided override Yoast titles and meta so there was no chance of interfering with the existing setup, and because Yoast didn’t seem to offer settings for Places, we now have another issue as we dig deeper to continue tweaking.
We had expected to be able to edit category meta titles on a category by category basis, but although we could do that with Yoast we don’t seem to be able to using GD. Are we missing something?
