This should be possible. First, you’re lucky that www.mytravelblog.com/jakarta/myPostName/ already works, it shows you the post and doesn’t redirect you to the longer version (at least it seems to work on my side). That means you only have to work on the generated link, and not mess with the way incoming URLs are handled or … Read more
Thought this was a great question so I went digging. In default-filters.php on line 208 there’s add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘noindex’, 1); as of WordPress 4.1. The noindex() function in turn checks to see if you have set blog_public option to 0. If you have, it calls wp_no_robots() which is simply: function wp_no_robots() { echo “<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” … Read more
Try putting this snippet in your functions.php <?php function rel_next_prev(){ global $paged; if ( get_previous_posts_link() ) { ?> <link rel=”prev” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/36800/<?php echo get_pagenum_link( $paged – 1 ); ?>” /><?php } if ( get_next_posts_link() ) { ?> <link rel=”next” href=”<?php echo get_pagenum_link( $paged +1 ); ?>” /><?php } } add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rel_next_prev’ ); ?> And if … Read more
I don’t know what content you want to insert in your archive page, but you can always use the file “archive-friends.php” as you can see in the Template Hierarchy to loop your “friends” post type. Then, to customize the SEO, I recommend you the plugin WordPress SEO by Yoast because it has a strong compatibility … Read more
Once I experienced the same issue, this is what I did to fix the issue. Edit the robots.txt file directly (using FTP/SSH), User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ There are two reasons if the robots files not updated when you edited using a plugin. File permission. Some other plugin is reverting the changes. Also try … Read more
You’ll find this post by Joost De Valk on changing WordPress permalinks to only include /%postname% very helpful. How many posts you have doesn’t matter anymore if you are using the latest version of WordPress (at least > v3.3.1). I believe your permalink structure initially was — this /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ — and now, you are planning … Read more
@nevster, The best permalink structure for seo is /%category%/%postname%/ This permalink structure gives you the most keywords loaded into the URL of your post. Since the category that you’ve placed your post under usually relates to the post title, you will have an extra SEO benefit if other websites use that permalink structure to link … Read more
Although I would advice you to avoid this and use a plugin for this work. Because only a dedicated plugin can help SEO. “WordPress SEO” from yoost is a great plugin for SEO. That being said, here is the code for adding meta description and keywords in header. Paste this in theme’s functions.php file. function … Read more
So as noted in the comments above, I found a solution and used this code to do it: function remove_yoast_metabox_reservations(){ remove_meta_box(‘wpseo_meta’, ‘reservation’, ‘normal’); } add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘remove_yoast_metabox_reservations’,11 ); In this instance, “reservation” was my custom post type. And “wpseo_meta” was the ID of the metabox. So the same code can be used on any meta … Read more
The hook you’re looking for is specifically wp_head which could look something like this: function theme_xyz_header_metadata() { // Post object if needed // global $post; // Page conditional if needed // if( is_page() ){} ?> <meta name=”abc” content=”xyz” /> <?php } add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘theme_xyz_header_metadata’ ); I believe in the long run though, since WordPress is … Read more