simchris You would need to fully eliminate the open graph description field as a possible starting point. However this will impact other things than FB.
You could try to use Yoast SEO Pro, and ask for a way to add function to always write empty space to the custom hook for Yoast custom FB description found bottom of each post.
simchris Need to add function… google it as old solution… sorry dont have lonk handy
simchris If using jetpack, or certain cdn setups, or if your host is running mod pagespeed, these can affect image quality.
simchris Assign post to featured category is simplest way
simchris You can simply edit the custom field for views on the post page.
simchris Well, if you look at your feed you have an HTML format page loading and not your actual RSS feed, but instead some weird bootstrap page based on your ‘coming soon’ plugin ….
/wp-content/plugins/coming-soon/themes/default/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css
Obviously if your feed page isn’t actually there Feedburner can’t see it or validate it.
simchris Hi,
you are correct if doing a ‘blog’ format, then it is one way to go. Very odd that Yoast isn’t working properly for you in that context.
For most magazines and newspapers, a front page is just that, it cannot have a ‘second front page’ or ’25th front page’ either, which was my basis for commenting.
Didn’t mean to imply you were doing it wrong in having a blog format for website, where front page is just essentially ‘page one of our index’ … and not a ‘true front page’ in the classic sense.
Since the issue is with Yoast SEO — theme doesn’t control that kind of canonical meta data, seems better to spend more time on the Yoast forum, and if you have Yoast PRO version put in direct support ticket.
But I don’t work here, so it was just some feedback as with classic blog indexing, you’re fighting your category indexes by doing that unless you also have all the home page 2+ as noindex, which I’m assuming you do. Yoast can manage that too obviously.
Sorry to butt in without helping with an actual solution! 🙂
simchris Well again, pagination of home page is bad practice. You should link to categories at bottom to rwad more, or have ajax loading more posts, not paginated home page. My two cents anyway, but i dont work here. We never build a site with paginated home pages, nor do most.
simchris Likely need to add a plugin and system for capturing that into local or remote dbase like mailchimp
simchris Gzip/deflate setup at server level… if host will not activate move to better host.
simchris Issue with fb timeout… nothing you can do except submit the try refresh attachment option
simchris useful to learn some basics here:
simchris simchris The plugin never worked right for me; I’d learn to do the FTP method as you can also make safety backup copies of your site at same time.
simchris Well, a good normal debug procedure is to disable plugins until you determine which one causing error. Turning debug ‘on’ for WP might also help with that.
The issue with FB is not related to much of anything — we have the issue where when manually sharing to FB sometimes they don’t capture anything and just have the URL — and we have dedicated 8 core XEON server in Class A IBM Datacenter. FB just times out on its own with up to 2 billion users. This morning I had to do the ‘refresh attachment’ option on FB for one thing. Annoying, but that’s FB and nothing you can do about THAT.
simchris Could also be somebody else on server with runaway process overloading system.
simchris 503 Error:
The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay.
Likely good to first check your error logs from hosting account to see what is actually causing the overload. Might be hackers trying to guess passwords, and/or brute force on your XMLRPC.
Useful to
a) install ‘limit login attempts’ plugin
b) consider disable of XMLRPC
See my [TUTORIAL] on basic security practices.
simchris Looks good. Note if you have a LARGE dbase, you will want to increase the max post size also. e.g., if your dbase was 192MB, that might pose issues someplace.
simchris Also use wp-optimize plugin regularly.
simchris Those php.ini items! Yes ?
simchris Basically open up the post template you’re using, and remove double spaces, indents, etc. — remove comments, et al.
Double check as you go that it still works. Don’t delete the first few items at very top of the templates.
I use either TextEdit (Windows), or BBedit (Mac), or DreamWeaver to do this kind of thing.
simchris Check system theme > status first.
Second consider changing the default ‘autosave’ interval for WP in your wp-config.php file.
If you’re using Yoast, try disabling a bunch of the stupid crap they keep adding to bloat the product now.
Might not be related, but all of the above cause issues around these parts!
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simchris a) ideally you should have made backup to roll back before trying a new plugin
b) after disabling the rogue plugin, you can try
– a — clear transients with wp-optimize plugin
– b — resave permalinks to also clear micro-transients
– c — fully clear cache in your web browser
– d — try testing page in diff. web browser after all of the above
(I don’t work here; just food for thought)
simchris You might try the ‘Breadcrumb NavXT’ + ‘Order Bender’ plugins; we use this on one of our main sites to micro manage which category shown in breadcrumbs when a story is in multiple categories.
simchris Major hacking; or likely setup a ‘multisite’ for different sections of site, each treated as micro sites.
