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Please help to fix Missing: author, enty-title and updated failures

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10 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 10 years ago

Hello Andrew,

I tried all the variants that I found here (on support forum) but no luck. I think it depends on my settings and e.t.c.

Can I grant you the access to my admin panel (how I did before) in order to show everything?

Best regards,

Andy

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Andy

    Good to hear from you :)

    Let me go dig up the last child theme I sent out for this problem.

  2. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Ok, I think this is the last one I made:

    https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/vantage-child-google-auth-august-2015.zip

    Are you running a child theme already?

    One of the issues I’ve run into is that it’s no good hiding entry meta info on Full Width, No Page Title pages. Google sees the information is set to display: none; and discounts it.

  3. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Andrew,

    Yes, I’m already running your child theme. And I have there custom footer.php, functions.php, header.php and single.php

    Should I download your new child theme and place there my old files?

  4. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    P.S.

    On some pages I use Full Width, No Page Title, on others just default template. And some pages have disable title plugin effect also.

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Any chance you can ZIP your child theme and upload it to your Media Library and send us a link so I can see what’s there?

    Thanks

  6. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, checking.

  7. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    We need to add:

    image.php
    content-page.php
    templates folder

    I’ve done so. Final result here:

    https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/vantage-child-andy.zip

    I’m not expert on this but I think you need to avoid using the Full Width No Page Title page template. Rather use Full Width so we have the h1 page title presented.

    Thanks :)

  8. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    I have replaced my old Child theme to this one.

    Should I also change the Full Width Page, No Title to Full Width on all pages?

  9. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Sounds good.

    Yes, ideally, on each page, use Full Width instead of Full Width, No Page Title.

  10. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    ok. I’ll give it a try :)

    Thanks

  11. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    For sure. Let me know how it goes :)

  12. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    Now I have on all my pages (except Home page) additional H1 tag

    <h1 class="entry-title">Советы</h1>

    http://joxi.ru/52aQ0kxSpP4M20

    Please make it something like h3 or h4

  13. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Do you have a public URL where we can take a look at what’s going on? If you need to keep this URL private from other users, just select “Private Reply” on the bottom right of the comment box.

    • andy-shandy Private 10 years, 5 months ago

      This is a private message.

  14. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    So far my child themes to get rid of all Google Authorship warnings have come short. Right now, just at a glance, you’ll need to add the following to Custom CSS:

    .page .entry-meta {
        display: block;
    }

    It seems that hiding the entry meta (date etc) doesn’t work and Google doesn’t want display none on that.

    You mentioned in your title you were seeing missing entry-title. We’ve now exposed the entry title but it doesn’t work with your current design. You see the challenge. If we shift entry title to h3 I don’t think it will pass. You’re welcome to try though.

    In your child theme, change /templates/template-full-notitle.php line:

    <h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

    Change that to:

    <h3 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

    You’d then also need to add CSS to handle the change.

    article.post .entry-header h3.entry-title, article.page .entry-header h3.entry-title {
        color: #3b3b3b;
        font-size: 20px;
        font-weight: 500;
        line-height: 1.35em;
    }
  15. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    And here so far no luck.

    I have changed the template’s php file: from h1 to h3

    Also I have inserted in Custom CSS the additional code.

    But nothing has changed. I still have 2 H1 tag

  16. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Maybe it is possible to change it to span or something else?

    I remember you did the trick when I had H1 in my LOGO. That time it did the trick with span as I guess

  17. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    I’d need to see the full error report to try assist further.

  18. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    P.S.

    .page .entry-meta {
        display: block;
    }

    This one works for me. Hope that Google will stop warning me :)

  19. andy-shandy Private 10 years, 5 months ago

    This is a private message.

  20. andy-shandy Private 10 years, 5 months ago

    This is a private message.

  21. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Sorry, I’m working too late. What are we looking at? Multiple h1 tags? Was that the warning?

  22. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Cool, I’ll check it out. Standby.

  23. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Let me hop onto this tomorrow when I’m a bit fresher. Chat then. Thanks.

  24. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Andrew,

    Any news here?

  25. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Andrew,

    Waiting for your reply :)

  26. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Andy. I’ll be with you ASAP. Thanks for the wait.

  27. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    If we’re looking at the multiple h1 tags issue, then yes, there are two h1 tags. The new entry-title we’ve just inserted and your headline tag:

    Private Snippet

    Question:

    Were you getting a missing entry-title warning before we updated the child theme? If so the we need the new page title and the only way to get rid of the multiple h1’s would be to move away from using the headline widget and just use the page title.

  28. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    Yes, I was getting a missing entry-title, author and updated before we updated the child theme. Google just doesn’t like since some time…and it started to affect my SEO positions in the search.

    Now you added these missing things to my child theme but with two H1 tags it will lower my positions even more.

  29. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    I’m almost certain that the first h1 needs to be the entry title. Since we can’t easily change the headline widget it means that needs to go. However, it’s relatively easy to re-create the headline widget in the Visual Editor widget. You can then make the headline h2 and the page will make sense.

  30. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Ok, here we go. Following goes at Appearance > Custom CSS:

    /* Custom Headline */
    .custom-headline {
    	text-align: center;
    }
    .custom-headline h2 {
        padding-top: 20px;
        margin: 0;
        font-size: 26px;
        line-height: 36px;
        text-transform: uppercase;
        color: #444;
        letter-spacing: 1px;
    }
    .custom-headline .decoration {
        border-top: 1px solid #EEE;
        position: relative;
        height: 1px;
        margin: 20px 60px 20px 60px;
    }
    .custom-headline h3 {
        padding-bottom: 20px;
        margin: 0;
        font-size: 14px;
        color: #666;
        font-weight: 200;
    }

    Replace the Headline widget with a SiteOrigin Editor widget. Insert the following into the Text tab:

    <h2>Как найти айфон по IMEI с помощью нашего сервиса</h2>
    <div class="decoration"><div class="decoration-inside"></div></div>
    <h3>Если мы не сможем найти IMEI айфона в базе, мы вернем вам деньги!</h3>

    Finally, edit the SiteOrigin Editor widget, click Attributes top right and enter the following as a Widget Class:

    custom-headline
  31. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks Andrew! I’ll give it a try.

  32. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    For sure :)

  33. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    Doesn’t work for me.

    The thing is the following:

    When I create a new page I make a title, for example, Услуги (Services on english), number 1 on my screenshot:

    http://joxi.ru/82Q73YbHB9RJrd

    This title is an entry-title and has H1 tag as it came out. Also this title goes to my main menu. And I can make a custom permalink if it is needed (number 2 on my screenshot).

    But when I edit a page I create the following structure of my page (this is required for Russian Yandex and Google robots):

    <h1>Как найти айфон по IMEI с помощью нашего сервиса</h1>
    <h2>Тариф «Разовая проверка IMEI»</h2>
    <h3>Если мы не сможем найти IMEI айфона в базе, мы вернем вам деньги!</h3>

    One page must always contain only one H1 tag, one or few H2 and H3/H4/H5 as many as you want. This is how our robots like it. Unfortunately for us :)

    That’s why I asked if you can make me a custom entry-title without H1 or H2. I suppose that other themes for WordPress have even worse situation with the SEO optimization but Vantage is almost ideal for this!!)) I just have sometimes to fix some small issues like this.

    Before everything was fine until Google started to reduce positions in search if you close, for instance, wp-content/cache or plugin folder in robots.txt and because of this missing entry-title, author and updated.

    Right now I’m trying to fix that…

  34. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    P.S.

    And I wonder why this doesn’t work in my Templates (Full Width Page, No Title Page Template: templates/template-full-notitle.php):

    <header class="entry-header">
    							<h3 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
    							<div class="entry-meta">
    								<?php vantage_posted_on(); ?>
    							</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
    						</header><!-- .entry-header -->
  35. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Maybe the thing is that entry-title is possible to change from H1 to H3 only in index.php and, for instance, archive.php?

  36. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    P.S.

    Not index.php or archive.php…I’ve meant single.php…or something like this

  37. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    I have found where these title, date and author are – template-tags.php

    But in Parent Vantage Theme

    function vantage_posted_on() {
    	$posted_on_parts = array(
    		'on' => __( 'Posted on <a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a><time class="updated" datetime="%5$s">%6$s</time>', 'vantage'),
    		'by' => __( '<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%7$s" title="%8$s" rel="author">%9$s</a></span></span>', 'vantage' ),
    	);
    	$posted_on_parts = apply_filters('vantage_post_on_parts', $posted_on_parts);
    	$posted_on = sprintf( implode(' ', $posted_on_parts),
    		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
    		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
    		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
    		apply_filters('vantage_post_on_date', esc_html( get_the_date() )),
    		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
    		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() ),
    		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
    		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'vantage' ), get_the_author() ) ),
    		get_the_author()
    	);
    	echo apply_filters('vantage_posted_on', $posted_on);
    }
    endif;

    Can you please make it for my child theme according to Google needs?

  38. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    To edit the posted on function, insert the following into your child theme functions.php file:

    if ( ! function_exists( 'vantage_posted_on' ) ) :
    /**
     * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
     *
     * @since vantage 1.0
     */
    function vantage_posted_on() {
    	$posted_on_parts = array(
    		'on' => __( 'Posted on <a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a><time class="updated" datetime="%5$s">%6$s</time>', 'vantage'),
    		'by' => __( '<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%7$s" title="%8$s" rel="author">%9$s</a></span></span>', 'vantage' ),
    	);
    	$posted_on_parts = apply_filters('vantage_post_on_parts', $posted_on_parts);
    	$posted_on = sprintf( implode(' ', $posted_on_parts),
    		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
    		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
    		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
    		apply_filters('vantage_post_on_date', esc_html( get_the_date() )),
    		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
    		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() ),
    		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
    		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'vantage' ), get_the_author() ) ),
    		get_the_author()
    	);
    	echo apply_filters('vantage_posted_on', $posted_on);
    }
    endif;

    From there you can edit the function as required.

  39. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Just a quick heads up. We don’t officially offer customisations. We do our best to assist where we can and I’ll do what I can to help out here. But, at some point, you might have to consider seeking developer assistance.

    I’m not following the h1 issue. Entry title should be a h1 tag. It’s the heading of the page. Why not just make your next heading h2 and h3 and so on? Strictly speaking, that’s how a page, for SEO purposes, should be structured. h1, starting the page off.

  40. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    Yes, and I always appreciate this when you do as maximum as possible! You helped me much more and it costs not that 40 or 50 USD that I spent buying Premium. And I can also say that you have one of the best theme support)

    Anyway…I will try to make something with all these things.

    If someone read this thread (for more information and answering to your question):

    http://joxi.ru/KAgM98NT8Nxzml

    “Why not just make your next heading h2 and h3 and so on?”

    Of course I can make it. The thing is my H1 (for SEO) it is a big boy containing sometimes 1 keyword and sometimes 2 keywords.

    Or is there any way probably to create a page, make an entry-title like “Contacts” but have other menu item for that page? Dunno if you understand what I’m talking about…

  41. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks Andy :) Online again 30mins or so. Will jump back in then.

  42. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    you too ;)

  43. andy-shandy 10 years, 5 months ago

    thanks* you too)

  44. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Andy are you still online. I’m not quite following your last request.

    Or is there any way probably to create a page, make an entry-title like “Contacts” but have other menu item for that page? Dunno if you understand what I’m talking about…

    Can you try explain further?

  45. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 5 months ago

    In your child theme in /templates/template-full-notitle.php we can change line line 26 to:

    <h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

    We can do the same with any other h1 entry title you want to change.

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