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Thanks Guust.
By all means I want GD to take a pass at providing this kind of content, but ultimately still want to retain final control either manually or via another tool like Yoast’s plugin, which does allow me to manually override at any level.
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Are all of your categories appearing? I noticed that on mine too, but it looked like all of the categories were there, so I’m wondering if it’s an AJAX handler that isn’t firing off to “close down” the category list, which a subsequent click of the “more” when expose.
So perhaps less about the “more” link not going anywhere or working, it may already be where it is needing to go, and really about the collapsing/hiding function not working to begin with.
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Absolutely! That’s why I’d be almost equally opposed to not being able to edit them at all…that would just lead to deleting and recreating everything, which isn’t a good experience for anyone. 😉
Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree. Allowing URLs to change indiscriminately as a secondary action to a title change is bad.
It runs the potential of broken links internally and externally.
It introduces “accidental” URL changes that were never desired in the first place.
404s like this will be a back user-experience, and runs the risk of diminishing the quality signal to Google and other search engines, especially for URLs that they have previously crawled on the site (not just an external link that may have been malformed to begin with).
Wordpress adopted the present treatment of post and page URLs because the best practice with URLs is that they should rarely be changed once created, and if changed, it should be an active process that allows more control and the ability for redirects to be put in place to preserve the link integrity.
I venture that most GD instances will be on small, average, non-brand/non-authoritative sites that may also be brand new sites starting out. That is already one large hurdle to overcome without sending low quality signals on top of.
In the extreme instances where there are massive URL changes, I’ve seen much bigger, authoritative brand sites see their search engine performance and traffic dropped to half or even a quarter of what it was and often still struggle for months to regain that position.
Everyone things the most important thing with SEO is title tags…it’s not. URLs and the handling of URLs is the single most important SEO principle.
Allowing explicit permalink changes from within the Admin area provides the benefit if being able to change URLs while removing nearly all of the risk of doing so, and those risks are now solely in the hands of people who should know how to mitigate those risks.
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Thanks.
While we are discussing this section of the site anyway, I don’t know if there is anyway to make the “more” link conditional or not, but it is a little cumbersome as it is currently.
Readers may find themselves clicking on several “more” links only to find there isn’t anything more. At some point, they just stop, and won’t see any comments that actually do have more information.
It might also be nice if separate limits could be setup for commenter photo uploads. As it is, I don’t think there is.
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I’d have to agree here.
Each day being treated as an event will be very confusing and bloat the listings.
Showing the break out of days and different times is useful, but should still be pulled under a single listing. And since there really isn’t a set limit on the description, listers could provide breakout schedule information for each day, such as speakers on certain days, agenda, etc.
The system needs to be smart enough though to display an event under a “today” or “upcoming” view when it is already # days into it.
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Most users won’t have a clue that changing the title will change the URL. Hopefully people won’t change their titles willy-nilly, but where there’s a way, some will.
I would suggest:
They are treated just like regular post and page URLs…the permalink is based on the title and once set, can only be changed explicitly via the backend permalink editor.
This would be familiar to everyone, and if it was done by role, even an admin or editor could “accidentally” change a URL because they corrected or updated a title.
If a user wants or needs to change a URL, they are still able to contact the site owner or an admin to request a change.
This is the best for search engines, users, and site owners.
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I’m using a customized WP (default) login/registration page and don’t remember whether this worked on the GD version or not, but the BestWebSoft Captcha is a nice plug-n-play version that should work across the site.
A simple check box will configure it to automatically be pulled into login, registration, password reset, and comment forms.
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Thanks John, that helped. Clicking on the “1 photo” text doesn’t do anything.
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Nice idea, but unfortunately, at least for me, probably not going to cut it. On the side, it doesn’t re-center the map or anything, so it is like just getting the far left side 294px.
Mileage may vary though and this absolutely might work for others.
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Not entirely. After going to a “like” state, you are presented with an “Unlike” text link, not a reversing thumb like on GD, which I think could lead someone to thinking they just thumbed-down a comment.
The reason I provided the Moz example was because I was interpreting the functionality being one where you could thumb up as well as thumb down a comment, but now I realize that GD is only allowing a thumb up, right?
Pros and cons to both approaches, but even with a purely thumbs-up approach, I still think the reversing thumb may be confusing to people. I think 1) a highlighted thumb that signifies you liked something, and clicking it again removes the like and returns to an un-highlighted state, or 2) the introduction of an “unlike” text link would be far clearer to a much broader audience.
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Sorry, I know this doesn’t help you, but I’m running Enfold as well with WP4 and latest GD, and I’m not having the issues you are. Any new plugins installed or anything that might be conflicting? Browser issue?…I’m running latest FF on PC.
Anyway, good luck.
This is based on the Yoast SEO plugin and the additional code for pulling in location details, so probably doesn’t show up on the demo at all.
