Hey guys,
Thanks for the great work regarding the last updates.
I use the theme for 5 websites and I can’t find the fix for this issue.
I only use categories to be able to use some widgets (like related articles). But I don’t want to show any category page to visitor or to Google. I understand that it’s possible to hide the category of an article through css in frontend, but it does not stop google from scanning those no-index pages.
This is bad for SEO.
I understand the theme has not been built to hide this parameter in the backend (only in css), but we need a way to remove them from back end.
> My question : what is the solution ? I don’t want to remove the php from my cloud template and update the file after each update.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
If you don’t want the category pages to be indexed, Yoast has a setting for it
– http://prntscr.com/nmbzap
This should work properly, and category pages should not be indexed.
To not show links to category pages at all times anywhere, it may take some work I believe. You could disable the category tags for all the modules in the theme panel. This will not hide them, they won’t be loaded at all
– http://prntscr.com/nmc45e
Then hide them all in the theme panel per category settings – http://prntscr.com/nmc4bq
Here hide means they won’t be loaded, not hidden but loaded.
Also you would have to remove the breadcrumbs, there will be category links there as well.
Thanks
Thanks Simion.
– I already applied all the advices you mentioned.
– Problem is that the “Related Post” block in cloud template does show the category link and this can’t be removed. Correct ?
If you disable the tag for the related articles module as well, there would be no link the category page – http://prntscr.com/nmeb4q I could be missing something however. Let me know if I do.
This is disable.
I’m using Single Related Posts in Cloud Template (tdc_zone). And the problem is that the category still displays as hidden in frontend.
On the block (cloud template), I applied hidden category also.
Any clue what am I doing wrong ?
I see it now, seems the category is there but hidden when using a cloud post template related articles element and the hide category setting.
To remove it completely would require that you edit the responsible module file in the cloud library plugin – http://prntscr.com/nmp81h
Only by removing the code the links will not actually load.
Hi Simion,
OK I understand. Does it mean that after every update I’ll have to manually do the changes again ?
Thanks a lot,
Hi,
Yes, all changes in theme files will be lost if you make update to the theme.
Thank you for your understanding!
