Well you are changing URLs which WILL impact your SEO. The best way to minimize this is with what’s known as a “301 redirect”. The 301 part is a server response code to tell the visitor (Googlebot is the one you care about) that the resource formerly at domain.com/page is now permanently moved to domain.com/blog/page. … Read more
Add the <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”> meta tag within your <head>. Then look into is_category() to add it specifically to your category pages. Or alternatively, you can check if $cat_id is available: $cat_id = get_query_var(‘cat’); If it is available, then it is a category page. EDIT Just add it in an IF statement: if (is_category()){ <meta … Read more
Gallery shortcode output is handled by gallery_shortcode function. If you look at the source code I linked you can udersand there are different way to customize the output: Using filters You can completely override gallery output using ‘post_gallery’ filter. Customize size via atts One of the argument you can pass to function using shortcode is … Read more
Pings are a mechanism for a fast update. For example if you are using a external feed service you want it to update as fast as possible when new post is up. Search engines do not care about it in this way. Pinging search engine won’t typically mean it will bother to index page immediately … Read more
I found a solution to add rel=”nofollow” to comments. My theme maker gave me this hack that you can add in functions.php (no guarantee it will work for everyone, might depend on your theme): function add_nofollow_to_comments_popup_link() { return ‘ rel=”nofollow” ‘; } add_filter( ‘comments_popup_link_attributes’, ‘add_nofollow_to_comments_popup_link’ );
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Yoast Support kindly provided me with the following reference: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/api/ Using the following filters calling my own functions, I was able to change everything in the header based on dynamic content. add_filter(‘wpseo_title’, ‘setPageTitle’, 10); add_filter(‘wpseo_metadesc’, ‘setMetaDesc’, 10); add_filter(‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘setCanonical’, 10); add_filter(‘wpseo_opengraph_image’, ‘setOG_Image’, 10); add_filter(‘the_title’, ‘setTitle’, 10);
I assume location/state and location/state/city are template files. In those 2 template files you should copy the contents of header.php and edit there the title and the meta description. Also delete the request get_header().
If you need true localization, like a different checkout process, different themes or product descriptions, then you should use a multisite. You can activate plugins and themes per site here. The problem here is that almost all shopping plugins are not multisite compatible. You have to activate them per site, not as network plugin, or … Read more
After the page is published WordPress creates a URL link based on your permalink settings. If you then change the post name the url link would not change automatically, although you can manually change it in the post.