I’m also having an issue with mobile-friendly pages and it’s killing my SEO.
The issue started around May 4, there were 1,382 mobile-friendly pages on that day, then suddenly the number plummeted to now only 198 mobile-friendly pages. I’ve been using the tagDiv mobile theme plugin for the Newspaper theme. My website is TheAEGISAlliance.com … Even though my site loads fast on mobile and the mobile version shows up, Google Search Console doesn’t think so. I don’t use AMP and that’s never been an issue with mobile-friendly pages before now.
After trying other functions.php code to try and get it to work, I found a simple workaround solution.
Instead of linking to the custom post type category pages in the mobile menu, I simply linked to its default archive URL.
Example: https://www.theaegisalliance.com/indie/
Example: https://www.theaegisalliance.com/tweets/
While this doesn’t completely solve the issue, it’s still much better than nothing.
If by the responsive version you mean AMP, I just don’t use it because of its limitations. While I’m able to use a custom blacklist sanitizer override plugin to allow things otherwise not allowed in AMP, it still restricts me from using rotating ads in AMP, such as our shop ad that shows a new ad image every 6 seconds.
Jerikstl… I know this is probably an obvious answer, but have you tried clearing all caches? Caching plugin, browser cache, and CDN/Cloudflare cache.
You can also try manually installing the theme with a fresh download from ThemeForest. Then log into your web host > CPanel > File Manager > WP Content > Themes > Don’t rename the old theme folder, but compress it to use as a backup, upload fresh theme zip file into the themes folder, theme zip file only, delete old theme folder, then extract fresh theme zip file. You won’t lose any of your settings this way either.
EDIT: Delete Newspaper theme folder only, not child theme.
If this is for your mobile site, the constant reloading on mobile version is caused by the official google AMP plugin, you may have to disable the AMP plugin and your site will go back to normal. I think the theme developers are working on a fix. Non-AMP mobile version is capable of doing more too, there’s still a mobile version without AMP plugin active, and you can redirect AMP to the non-AMP mobile version if you have Yoast SEO plugin, the popular redirects plugin with 1 million installs hasn’t been updated in 4 months and will cache redirects making them difficult to get rid of, so any URL that has the letters “amp” together in it will redirect to a URL with letters missing and give a 404 error page.
Disable official AMP plugin, then:
Add this 301 Regex Redirect:
Regular Expression: (.*?)/?amp/$
New URL: https://yourdomain.com/$1
You can do the same for “amp/” “amp=/” and “?amp=/”
EDIT: The AMP version looks exactly the same as the non-AMP mobile version too, only that the non-AMP mobile is capable of doing more things.
Nevermind, it was adsense auto ads causing it. Maybe disabling adsense from modifying ad codes on mobile will help resolve the issue while still having auto ads on. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The in-content auto ads were the main cause of this issue, but it still happens with manually placed responsive ads.
Adding @ to line 792 made the mixed content warning when editing templates go away, but the non-AMP mobile version is still broken.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the AMP plugin. Then uninistalled Jannah theme just to be safe, then updated permalinks with no changes. No luck. I disabled wp fastest cache and the premium plugin, refreshed permalinks again. (I’ve had no problems with wp fastest cache and Newspaper theme btw.)
I went into WP-Optimize and ran database optimizations, including cleaning some orphaned data that didn’t need to be in the database. Still no luck. Re-enabled wp fastest cache plugin, and I had been clearing cloudflare cache too during this time. Still no luck. I was also clearing browser cache.
I checked .htaccess file but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary unless I missed it.
I had noticed the mobile theme was broken not long after trying to add that logo image to MintySide Pro footer that caused the @ to disappear on line 792.
I emailed you guys Cpanel and WP-Admin logins.
I’ve tried deleting my instagram username “aegisalliance” saving the page, then re-entering the username and saving it again, but there’s still a # symbol at the end of the URL. Now it takes me to http://www.instagram.com/aegisalliance/# … the link works now, but it’s preventing the number of followers from showing up.
