Hi Calin,
thank you for response! I think this is irrelevant for bots, because also if we declare the “nofollow” directive it is… well a directive.

Bots like semrush ignores this directive and hits 404 page. The real matter is about performance because with something like 10.000 blog posts we will generate about 40.000 times the 404 page and this is an unnecessary overhead for CPU.

For Now we solved removing those snippets of code:
https://imgur.com/2kVdbeE
https://imgur.com/1lBmHy1

This disables the search feature and avoid Crawlers to follow those invalid url, but doing this make us necessary to remake this edit each time we update the theme.

As a compromise fix we will also like something like a WordPress filter to disable feature programmatically or a Switch in admin panel, we don’t know what is better for you, it doesn’t matter, our goal is only to inform you about this issue and avoid CPU performance waste on our server.

I’m sorry but we can’t find old 404 logs for this issue but I think that this Google result is eloquent about the real behavior of Crawlers:
https://www.google.com/search?q={{post_cat_link}}

As you see there are a lot of result from website with Newspaper Theme.
Let me know your technical feedback,

Thank you for your time,
Silvio

• This reply was modified 6 years by Akaueb.

Thank you

And even if I add social networks and save in theme panel them they aren’t reissued

Thank you! Now I can see social networks in my theme panel, but in single post page whatsapp share button doesn’t work yet!