Not entirely sure if I agree with the explanation of your SEO guy as rel=prev and rel=next are used for paginated archives. Of course categories can be one, but also your blog if it’d contain multiple pages. Anyways, here’s what I’m currently using: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’ ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘cor_rel_next_prev_pagination’ ); /** * Pagination with … Read more
To allow crawling of your WP site you need to go to “admin panel >> Settings >> Reading” right before the “Save Changes” button is a checkbox with the label Search Engine Visibility make sure this is unchecked.
If we do this in the browser dev tools console: var b = wp.data.select(“core/editor”); We can then inspect the b variable to see what functions it exposes via autocomplete, or debugging tools. Notice, I didn’t call getBlocks(), the post title has never been a part of the post content, why would that change now? A … Read more
Check your theme (header.php). If it uses something like this : <title><?php wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ ); ?></title> You can use this filter : add_filter( ‘wp_title’, ‘wpse104667_wp_title’ ); function wpse104667_wp_title( $title ) { global $post; if( is_singular() && !is_front_page() && !is_home() && !is_404() && !is_tag() ) $new_title = get_the_title($post->ID) ; return $new_title; } EDIT: add … Read more
If the comment is a pingback or a trackback and short_ping is true then the comment is processed by the ping method which formats the comment differently than either the html5_comment method or the comment method both of which create a much longer more complicated format than does the very minimal ping method. You can … Read more
Full disclaimer, I am the author of the WordPress plugin I am about to mention and I am hoping this answer would give it more visibility. So, I had to do this for a few clients last year mostly for SEO reasons and it was getting ridiculous. I made a WordPress plugin that can do … Read more
Decided to entertain the idea. Adapted from my snippet that changes anchors to collapsed domain names. Little too verbose, but seems to work. add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘anchors_to_page_titles’ ); function anchors_to_page_titles( $content ) { preg_match_all( ‘/<a.*?href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/6023/(.*?)”.*?>(.*?)<\/a>/’, $content, $matches ); array_shift( $matches ); foreach( $matches[0] as $key => $url ) { $anchor = $matches[1][$key]; if( $url == $anchor … Read more
So I finally figured out how to remove the dates displayed on my pages within a google search, turns out there was a hidden span tag on all of my pages that google was using to get the date All I had to do was find the code that added that hidden span tag to … Read more
XML sitemap over product variations
Hm, likely if there are complete lists of options for “mood” and “location” than there could just be a script that generates all combination of them and – while generating – double check if there is actually enough content for them. And then put them in the sitemap that google uses for getting to know … Read more