Hello.
I’ll agree it’s all rather odd, but I hope you’ll excuse me having to start somewhere!
Screaming Frog is a standalone Mac app that scans HTML from scratch – there’s a free version that crawls the first 500 urls… Check out https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/

What Screaming Frog shows seems to be reflected in the 404’s in Google Console – despite the seeming fact that these malformed urls are NOT showing in the XML Sitemap!

Plainly, I need to resolve this and my first thoughts was that it’s a script on a social networking item – Socializer was the firm favourite, but I’ve disabled that on the live site and retried it and still I ‘see’ 404’s.

On the test site, with all the plugins disabled, Screaming Frog still gives 404’s (but the sitemap not)…

Something is happening, and very possibily ‘on-demand’ by crawlers, but what?

Many thanks

Hello
I’ve looked further at this and am now concerned!

What I have done is to clone the site to a dev area and use an on-demand crawler (Screaming Frog in this instance) to see what has happened.

I have deactivated ALL the plugins, whilst still using the Newspaper 7.3 Child theme and I still get 404’s… Screaming Frog gives a specific of:
Type: AHREF with the original url to the destination url, the destination url in one instance (and repeated a few times with different urls) http://dev.aclwebservices.com/b47/spada-pilgrim-everyday-motorcycle-boots/www.

It is only when I swap themes that these 404’s disappear!

It would appear on the face of it then, that the Newspaper theme is raising the challenge?

Advice asap would be appreciated – I can of course give you access to the dev area for your research, please provide a secure method to give you the info.
many thanks

A revisit simply because I’m banging my head against a wall!

Let’s take an example:
SDT gives me this – https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiker47.com%2Fhood-jeans-k7-motorcycle-jeans-review%2F

As far as I can see the supplied data is telling Google it’s a review? Can you please check from your perspective that the code is correct?

I appreciate you cannot force Google to do anything, but why would it ‘fail’ if the data is there?
Appreciate your time.

Hi
So I understand (I think) and already use Yoast’s Rich Snippets – but do not understand how you have got the star rating in search results…
I have read their online KB, but it’s not that specific.
Can you advise further please?
thanks

It’s a fair point, thanks… But nonetheless the admin panel either works or it doesn’t!

try this link

Hello.
I am able to create a ‘staged’ copy on my ISP’s server – so it should be an absolute duplicate…
I went through the upgrade process as best I understood it…

I can restart, but don’t know what to change in the procedure to get it right. The idea would be to overwrite the staged copy to the live site once we’re happy.

Thanks

OK Lucian, I’ll read the aspect ratio stuff – thanks.
Re the custom CSS – I’ve tried it and whilst I see that it adds the date and makes it visible – the two boxes don’t line up…
No matter, what I actually want is to remove that date box completely! Any ideas??
thanks