Note Google+ is rebranding and reorganizing as of this week (Nov. 18), many things are not working right like #tags, and they are pushing folks to move to new layout.
Not much you can do except ensure you have the correct OG tags in your meta data. I’ve been manually submitting my most important items, but even then it’s just headline and image – no description. Even sharing from Google News does not pick up the description — so that should tell you something, their own sharing button doesn’t grab the snippets properly from their own site!
Their own sharing button in Google news ALERTS only picks up image; also again their own tech can’t resolve their own content properly.
Wow. Must have a great time machine, considering WordPress launched in 2003. You are a grand master of the universe. Based on the ‘How do I install a plugin’ question, I didn’t peg you as an expert as that is a newbie type query. Most folks look into the download folders, know how to FTP, etc.
Child themes are “normally” meant to allow basic mods without touching parent, except when major changes are made to WP core which has happened a lot this year, or if there is major theme upgrade to bring entirely new feature set at which point the child theme also needs to be upgraded.
Most of us using WP the past decade are aware of this.
Not trying to argue about it, but of course lots of themes to choose from. I love this one and we use it for our news network and have no troubles, but then we edit the main theme and never use child themes as they are a redirect of the CSS and you are eventually going to run into the issues you are now.
I’ve used dozens of themes and the child themes often change to address changes to WooCommerce, WP core, security patches, etc. And WordPress 4.4 next month brings additional changes to core.
In any case, I don’t work here — so sorry I posted anything here — didn’t intend to upset you.
It’s all good. Peace! 🙂
Yeah… I usually wait a couple of days for new full dot versions of YOAST, as they have totally crashed my site a couple of times. They seem to push the new version out then use the customer base as the beta testers, then they do 1-4 updates, then it’s good to go.
With them moving so much to Ajax/JavaScript there is already a ton of things happening in the admin panel with JavaScript, so it’s going to cause some major funky things as it’s totally different how they’re actually doing stuff. Probably need to go through and resave every option panel in YOAST 3x to be safe (as had to be done in couple of older versions).
We’re upgrading to a ‘pro’ license with them soon, so we can report goofy stuff and get reply.
Color me paranoid!! 🙂
If you’re using YOAST SEO, be sure to turn that feature OFF in Yoast Seo.
I think you can remove most header stuff from the theme by editing the header.php, unless I am mistaken. I usually remove stuff like the pingback, myself.
Might be a function, if you don’t see it in the header.php file. But TagDiv will need to provide pointer on that.
(I don’t work here; just some feedback.)
Note that “new” full dot versions of YOAST almost always have notable problems which are then “fixed” over the next few days with 1-4 dot updates.
Good idea to *never* install a full dot update of YOAST until the dot revisions are in place.
Seriously.
However, also be aware they may be launching it pre-emptively to be fully compatible with the pending December release of WordPress 4.4 which will bring a number of changes, which may impact all themes and plugins.
