Soft 404s on listings

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  • March 5, 2019 at 1:44 pm #472596

    BJ Bowen
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    https://foundation96.com/places/united-states/wisconsin/milwaukee/lymphedema_therapists/lymphatic-massage-works/

    There’s an example of 1 url that returns Soft 404 in GSC.

    There are lots of urls returning the soft 404.

    Can you please help me find out why this is happening?

    March 5, 2019 at 2:13 pm #472605

    Kor
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    Hi BJ,

    Thanks for your message. This is usually caused by permalink issues. Try resaving your permalinks and see if it helps? If not, share your Website WP admin access here and we’ll troubleshoot this for you.

    Thanks!

    March 5, 2019 at 8:53 pm #472743

    BJ Bowen
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    March 6, 2019 at 8:04 am #472850

    Patrik
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    Hi,

    Have you discussed this issue with your hosting provider? It may be possible they can provide some solution to fix or at least they can suggest if it is due to a plugin or something else. If you have staging site then just provide us the admin and FTP details in private reply and we will look into it if there is any issues due to a plugin or something else.

    Regards,
    Patrik

    March 11, 2019 at 1:20 pm #473983

    BJ Bowen
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    I have found that the issue is with “Thin Content” where the users are not creating a description that Google deems worthy of a page.

    If I add paragraphs to the description, the pages index perfectly.

    So, is there a way to set a limit so that the description must be at least a certain number of characters. (While reviewing the php files, it seems this is possible, but I can’t find the setting in the GeoDirectory dashboard.

    Thanks!!

    March 11, 2019 at 2:25 pm #473994

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    if you are using the normal textarea then you could try this (not tested)

    add_filter('geodir_cfi_textarea_attributes','_my_post_content_min_len',10,2);
function _my_post_content_min_len($attributes,$cf){
if(isset($cf['htmlvar_name']) && $cf['htmlvar_name']=='post_content'){
    $attributes['minlength'] = 'minlength="500"';
}
    return $attributes;
}
    March 11, 2019 at 3:27 pm #474007

    BJ Bowen
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    I found this page in your FAQs: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/places/custom/#fields

    But, I cannot find the section called “Field Settings” in the admin area. Is that the correct place to set the “Validation Pattern” according to the instructions on that page?

    Where is the Field Settings area in the GeoDirectory admin?

    Thanks!

    March 11, 2019 at 4:28 pm #474015

    Alex Rollin
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    That is for GDV2

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/try-geodirectory-v2/

    March 11, 2019 at 4:32 pm #474016

    BJ Bowen
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    Do I need to upgrade to V2?

    March 11, 2019 at 4:41 pm #474017

    Alex Rollin
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    Eventually, yes

    March 13, 2019 at 3:00 pm #474339

    BJ Bowen
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    hmmmm. Unfortunately that code snippet did not work.

    I placed it in the functions.php.

    I am attempting to set a minimum limit on the description field in the Add-Listing page.

    Let me know what I can do. Thanks for all of your help!

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