simchris Most often it’s a bug with Yoast, hence the barrage of 10 updates a month for bug fixes. Often good to keep prior versions to roll back, which we’ve had to do a few times. We’re leaving Yoast behind for 2019 because of this.
(I don’t work here.)
simchris Try putting your adsense ad code into a simple widget box in sidebar to see if the actual ads work properly.
If they do, then likely you have mis-configured the code you pasted into the adsense ad boxes in the theme panel.
simchris Native font stack best way to go these days as no load time penalty.
simchris I think the license is clearly spelled out on the page where you bought it. License for one site.
simchris What do the livestream.com docs say about embedded video into a website?
Do they have docs on how to embed in a WordPress page or post? Good place to start, as normal WordPress posts and pages are not theme specific.
So, I’d start there first, then see what the “normal WordPress method” is for that service, and then try that out, and then ask for help once you get into trouble, if it does not work with this theme.
I don’t work here, just some feedback while you’re waiting for admin reply 🙂
simchris Basically that plugin does not always work.
Best to install via FTP, or download main theme zip and install via the WP admin panel.
simchris h1 – normally for title
h2 – normally for sub title or section heads
h3 – for supplemental headlines, esp those which change per page; so it’s ‘correct’ to have the story headlines on the indexes as h3 and not h2
h2 would be for adding a descriptive sub-head to the category main index page, which is also permanent.
Hope that helps.
simchris Did you resave permalinks to make the /amp endpoints active ?
They do really need to add that as a popup when activating the plugin.
simchris did you resave permalinks to make the endpoints active ?
simchris Scan your site with the free SECURI scanner, to see if actually infected or not.
ALSO SEE:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/
simchris most of this is still usable:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-newsmag-documentation/
simchris Note, if your web hosting provider supports mod_pagespeed, this is an option included in that server side system. We use it here to remove comments and line breaks and empty spaces, dynamically.
simchris resave permalinks to make the /amp endpoint active.
simchris disable lazy loading of images, possible solution; also make sure you choose template that uses the featured image in post
simchris Google will normally read the open graph meta data if properly found in the head of your file, and readable when you ‘fetch as google’ to verify and check with console audit.
Google may also show other info from your page when ‘scraped’ but you have no way of controlling that. The proper meta tags, without any duplicates or errors, is the best you can actually do to ensure Google grabs correct information.
This has been the case for quite some time and is nothing new to your site or any site.
simchris Default pages are part of WordPress. So, you might need a plugin or function to turn those off.
simchris resave permalinks to enable amp endpoints; then test they work in web browser
simchris Resave permalinks
simchris Probably the amp template itself
simchris Use the custom ad box and just use normal HTML like olden days. See the theme docs on how to use the advertising panel 🙂
simchris Common issue with opcache on server with php; which is designed to ‘cache’ pages for a long time. We have same issue where the cache holds onto page longer than expected; but in our case not theme specific.
Sites without the issue are those with more dynamic elements on front page, like a post slider which forces page update due to new larger thumbnail made for the slider (esp useful with Newsmag). Because other elements on front page updated when post added to a block, seems to work better. Weather widget, and new latest iteration of dynamic responsive page level ads from Google, all seem to impact this behavior.
Just food for thought anyway … not theme specific on our 20 sites.
simchris Do you have expiration headers and time to live set in your htaccess file or server settings?
Did you check your post with Chrome audit tools in console?
simchris Look at the custom fields for each post.
simchris Most SEO plugins offer this functionality.
simchris You don’t need to use a robots.txt file….
Read the documentation on how to use Yoast, for more info.
https://yoast.com/wordpress-robots-txt-example/
Should you link to your XML Sitemap from your robots.txt?
We’ve always felt it pointless to link to your XML sitemap from your robots.txt file, because you should add your sitemap manually to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools accounts and look at their feedback about it. This is why our Yoast SEO plugin doesn’t add it to your robots.txt. Don’t rely on search engines finding out about your XML sitemap through your robots.txt .
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-through-yoast-seo/
