Example link ?

Theme doesn’t support that apparently. Most don’t as the module cannot check to see which story the module is being loaded on — would be huge hit on the dbase to query that for every page load. Lots of news sites default to this behavior under “latest stories…”

LOL…
we all go through the trial by fire at some point. 🙂
Glad you got it sorted!

Happy holidays!

Tip for asdding meta data to your home page with YOAST …
first “read the friendly manual” (help) included with Yoast …

second, go to your “page” you have setup for your home page, and note the Yoast custom elements on the “page” for your home page. THAT is where you set all the custom elements for your home page in the meta data.

Lots of folks do miss that 🙂

Actually …
what would be really cool is if TagDiv support could give example of using the built in tagdiv icon font to possibly have example of adding a simple email icon and print icon each wrapped in the html to launch those with classic html, and how to add to the social plugin section ?

Not terribly hard, but not everyone needs the print function anymore since it’s built in to all web browsers.

Anyway…. this plugin might work as it just adds the print me function vs installing all sorts of funky libraries
https://wordpress.org/plugins/print-o-matic/

Frankly “print to PDF” with a more complex plugin would be more useful than print to paper for most folks these days.

Hi
the print function works for my sites ?

Simply choose “print” from your web browser and a nice clean version is there. Most savvy folk who still need to print paper copies of site pages can simply do that without needing a visual “print me” button.

You can add a “print” button to your pages if you wish, either via custom HTML to the theme page or any of the various plugins found on the wordpress.org plugin repo.

With the move to mobile fewer people have printers now, and tend to bookmark the page vs “printing it” to paper. Also, most folks with the need will often use a PDF app to “print page to PDF” vs paper anymore.

Not a bad idea, just some feedback on what we’ve seen with our news portals.

Happy holidays! 🙂

See the theme docs and diy tutorials for info on site optimization.

As noted on the google page i linked to, they may use image from ither story.
Try unblocking directiry and see if it helps.ndont block any directory where you phitos are. Sorry typing on my ipad ?

Fyi i did this with v4x in sub directory on our main site going from http to all https a year ago. Did nit get that error.

Add explicit https full url to your wpconfig.php file, do clean install of wordpress core files, check htaccess and robits.txt for any http gremlins. Make sure yiu gave full 301 sitewide redirect in place for http to https.

Typing on ipad sorry ??

Again
a) you need to experiment with your layout, image size, location, file name
b) even with all that, Google may skip an image
c) you can try to get them to recapture by changing a word in headline and resave/republish while story is still in the Google News sitemap (you are using a GN sitemap, right?)

That’s it.

Or, read the OFFICIAL Google instructions for GN images, if you don’t like my replies:
https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/13369?hl=en

Missing images

Google News displays images associated with the articles currently included in our index. If your articles are included in our index, but you’re not seeing their images, please follow these suggestions:

Image crawl takes into account the schema.org image and og:image specified in the html body of an article. For the image that you’d like to be the thumbnail image next to your article, we’d recommend using schema.org or og:image to make this selection clear.
Make sure you are using a standard filename extensions, like .jpg or .jpeg.
Make sure that your images are fairly large in size, at least 60 pixels by 90 pixels.
Use images that have reasonable aspect ratios.
Ensure that your images are inline.
Place your images near their respective article titles.
Label your images with well-written captions.
Ensure that a robots.txt file isn’t blocking our access to your images.
Please keep in mind that in order to show as many different sources to our users as possible, we sometimes pair relevant images with articles from different sources.

While we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to include all your images, these suggestions will increase the likelihood of the inclusion of your images in Google News.

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To add meta data use Yoast SEO. Simplest way to do it. 🙂

So, your host wouldn’t tell you how to edit your htaccess file to get your site to work ? Wow.

Google is a good resource.

“WordPress 406 error fix” …

e,g,
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/406-not-acceptable-3?replies=6

REF :

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

good little visual tutorial
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/redirects/setting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess

Usually an Apache mod_security setting. Check with your web host on that.

Normally if you delete articles, best to redirect them to another index, perhaps on same topic.

Or if changing things like a category name change from news-books to book-news, you would also want to do a 301 redirect for that.

Not huge issue with brand new site, but with established site … yes, it can hurt your SEO if you suddenly have 50 missing pages that are being linked to from social media or elsewhere just vanish. 404 page is technically fine though, just try to avoid giant batch of 404s all in one day 🙂

The VC documentation is useful to review at some point:
https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Visual+Composer+Pagebuilder+for+WordPress

A shortcode cheat sheet WOULD be super helpful! 🙂

You can add H1 tag to your home page by simply adding a text box in a VC row, or in home custom sidebar.

Custom style the h1 font/size with a new class like homeh1 and apply that to the h1 tag wrapping your 20 words, which should ideally match the title tag in your home page meta data.

This applies to both the newsmag and newspaper themes — or any theme, really.

Hi
it used to be in the header.php file … not sure if that is still where it is.

Check for JS errors in your error console (F12).
Make sure you clear all your caching on server, CDN, and browser(s).

You may also find this article useful, or anybody else reading this thread — old issue, but many folks are not aware of it — and especially if they had a lot of images which are NOT properly redirecting to parent post.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-image-attachment-pages-in-wordpress/

If you read my notes – you can’t 100% “solve” issue of Google skipping images; their system cannot “always” capture image. Period. That was the point of my comments and information in my posts. Sorry nothing else you can do but address the elements I’ve noted in my comments in this thread. Good luck.

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Yep … that’s what happens. They can randomly skip images based on the actual content, file name, etc.

One “trick” we do here, is go back to the post where the image was skipped, add/change ONE word in headline (not the slug/URL!!) and then update the post. If it’s still in your Google News sitemap, they “normally” will recapture and often get image on the update.

So, I am in the habit of checking posts regularly in case they just skip stuff.

Weird thing is, sometimes they show the image in our “site:name” search but then not in the search by the topic in the story. Implies some bug in “display” of image they have actually in fact captured. SO they have it, just not always showing it. I have 2 items today with this issue.

Stupid, I know. But there you are. 🙂

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If you manually paste a long excerpt into the excerpt box, that tends to “over ride” the default excerpt length in some places like the archives.

Otherwise, you can set the excerpt length for most things from theme panel for the blocks/widgets and templates.

I’m sure TagDiv will have better answer — but perhaps you could point to a specific example.

Theme handles excerpts very very well, speaking as a 2-year user of the theme on multiple sites (I don’t work here).

My pleasure — been there 🙂

Happy holidays!