Questions tagged [wordpress]
WordPress is an open source content management system running on PHP and MySQL often used as a blog engine. There is a WordPress StackExchange at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/: if your question is related to WordPress but not webmastery, then your should ask it over there.
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Resolving Google Search Console Error: Video Too Tall for Embedded YouTube URLs [migrated]
I'm facing a Google Search Console error stating "Video Too Tall" for embedded YouTube URLs on my WordPress site. I found a PHP snippet that claims to fix this by setting a specific height ...
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hosting multiple websites in the same server
I have a server that has multiple websites, when i access one of them by the ip address or domain name it directs me there with no problem,the rest are accessed by a domain name without any problem, i ...
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Bot is crawling urls that do not exist in my site. How to identify and fix them? [duplicate]
When I look at access.log in my site, I find these entries in the file. These files are not generated by me and not sure where is bingbot finding them. Is this some spam sitemap.xml? I was trying to ...
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How to index on Google a YouTube video built by the video/image content in the Wp editor page?
I have a problem with Google search on my website. I built my section on the Wp editor page with a "video/image content" type block. I have a section, on the left the title and the text and ...
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Favicon changed in google search after malicious code, but in browser tab didn't change
The WordPress site had malicious code two months ago and favicon changed only in Google search results. An icon that appeared was never used so the picture is unknown to me. But the favicon that we ...
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Should I index user-generated content (UGC) products on my website or not? Should I add them to the sitemap?
We are a marketplace and our users introduce their products on our website through seller panels. In other words, these contents are user-generated content (UGC).
Considering that the introduced ...
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Will AngularJS and Wordpress SEO techniques conflict with each other?
I am very new to WordPress. I implemented a web site using AngularJS and these SEO techniques:
Title tag
Meta description tags
Heading tags
'alt' tags
'og' tags
I am planning to use WordPress as a ...
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Connecting WordPress.com site to Github?
I volunteered to work on a WordPress site recently. The site owners have some customizations they want on the site which might only be possible with custom coding, so I thought of connecting the site ...
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How can I make the music player on this page to play continuously, even if you are going from the front page to a sub-page?
I know that having a music player on a website isn't necessary nowadays. But I have a client that really wants one on their website. The problem is making the music player play constantly (the user ...
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How can I improve mobile rendering performance on pages with many images?
I'm helping a client improve SEO performance on a WordPress blog where the posts typically include complex magazine-style layouts with text flowing around large images. The images are all webp and I'...
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SEO process for new wordpress site after upgrading from old HTML site
i have upgraded a old htlml site(created 15years back) to new wordpress site, when I search the site name in google it list out the home page and other inner page link such as about us, contact us etc
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tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/rede.ca/httpdocs/wp-includes/
I upgraded from WordPress 4.9.6 to 6.3 and initially everything seemed fine.
I installed the latest version of the X theme (by Themeco) with no issue.
But when I applied my old X child theme the site ...
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How to make Wordpress generate a description meta tag on post tag list pages?
Wordpress 6.3.1, Rank Math SEO plugin
ahrefs Site Audit flagged an Error of "Meta description tag missing or empty" for all our Wordpress tag list pages. For example, the public showcase ...
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wordpress - all URLs with no trailing slash redirect to include slash
Just started a new job and the company website is built on Wordpress. All URLs seem to have a trailing backslash for example https://www.digitallearninginstitute.com/courses/professional-diploma/
We ...
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How to declare the JSON+LD for a breadcrumb that has 2 items in the same position?
Let us assume that one Blog allows both nested categories, and one post can have multiple categories as well.
A post named "best laravel practices" might have category "laravel" ...
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It doesn't show up even though I add Featured Image in Wordpress
About 10 days ago, I changed my hosting company and I asked the hosting company I just switched to to move my site's files to their own servers. And then the transition was made, my website was ...
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Problem to detect security script like X-Frame through .htaccess file in WordPress and how to trace and find the problem?
I transferred my WordPress website from a hosting company to a virtual machine. I want to add some security scripts like X-Frame, CSP, and HSTS. Before that, I edited the .htaccess file from the ...
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Why is my WordPress website not getting indexed on Google Search Console despite using Yoast SEO and manually creating a sitemap and robots.txt?
I have added my website in my Google Search Console but it's not getting indexed. It's a WordPress website and I'm using Yoast SEO but since it didn't work out. I had to create Sitemap manually and ...
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Is it possible to change website hosting away from Wix with a domain registered at GoDaddy? [closed]
I have a website for my Kitchen & bathroom Remodeling business. I want to change the hosting of my website due to poor performance of our current host (Wix). Our domain name is registered with ...
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403 header response code
I am getting a 403 header response code for my website while checking this tool https://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php
Here is the screenshot below: https://snipboard.io/p2DH1S.jpg
Here are the ....
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Multilingual Wordpress site restructuring, advice needed
My current situation:
A Wordpress blog in two languages: my native language + English.
Setup with Polylang as follows: ‘www.domain.fr’ and ‘www.domain.fr/en’.
The issue:
The complexity of ...
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migrate domain-name and hosting from google-sites to wordpress
I don't have website deveoplemnt experience.
For keeping my personal blogs, I took the easy plug-and-play step and I have created a website using sites.google.com. I bought the domain name and hosting ...
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Does changing from a .com website to .com.au hurt SEO?
Recently I made the change from a .com site that I have had for quite a few years and it has a lot of value. After completing my 301 redirects etc. to my .com.au site I have noticed a fairly ...
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Wordpress website only showing text 'Hello World' upon visiting
I've been trying to fix this issue for a long time, but whenever I go to my WORDPRESS website it just shows a plain 'Hello World' text despite me having downloaded themes and media for the website.
I'...
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Remove all redirects introduced by a WordPress hack [closed]
There is this online scam website that's causing great damage. From the many complaints online, it's obvious that people are losing thousands of dollars every month on the site.
I've decided to stop ...
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Is it possible to use a template for search spiders?
Is it possible to use a special template for search engines and another template for visitors? on the WordPress platform.
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301 Redirect Chain Caused By Custom Post Type [WORDPRESS]
We're using Pods to create custom post types. We needed to redirect an existing page to its new location under the custom post type, but now Ahrefs is detecting a redirect chain.
www.example.com/...
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How can I get Google to rank some pages on my website higher than other pages on the same site?
Every year I release new content on my Wordpress website that I would like Google to rank higher than the previous content on the site. Older content seems to rank higher right now, maybe because it ...
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Will correcting the timezone of a WordPress installation effect the search engine rankings of all the posts?
I am using WordPress CMS. I had started my blog 2 years ago. Right now I have 284 blog posts in my sitemap. When I started my blog, I made a mistake while selecting time zone. I live in India my time ...
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Could a change in our website's address potentially be affecting the queries people use to find it?
We moved our Wordpress website from a .co address to a .com a few months ago, and ever since we did that, the queries that were the most interesting for our business stopped making our site appear on ...
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What does the Yoast Cornerstone Content feature do?
In Yoast for WordPress I noticed an option for "cornerstone content" and I have switched it on. However in the HTML code generated of the designated page I do not see any difference.
What ...
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Does hiding image make loading faster?
Does hiding the "featured" image on WordPress single post with display:none make the page load faster?
I understand the img tag is still loaded in the DOM, just wondering does it make any ...
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SEO Impact of moving blog posts from root to subdirectory /blog
In a current corporate WordPress site, I have all the pages (about us, services, etc...) in root, but also the blog posts. For example: domain.com/a-simple-service-page, but also domain.com/a-simple-...
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Edited my .htaccess file and now website is downloading, not displaying anymore
I made changes to my .htaccess file and now the website is not loading anymore. Instead, it just downloads a file called "download". This happens on Google Chrome, but on Safari the website ...
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Using dynamic content in Wordpress by decoding and using a JWT passed on the URL, without logging in any user
I have a Wordpress and I don't want to create users for the next functionality:
I need a page that has this behaviour:
URL1 = https://my-site.example.com/some-page/ => Renders some public content
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Change product images WooCommerce (jpeg > webp.) the right way?
I'm working on converting product images from .jpeg to webp, I want to do this without a plugin, but preferably within the functions of WooCommerce. I exported the products as a .csv file and adjusted ...
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how to secure httaccess and index.php files [duplicate]
I am responsible for a lot of WordPress websites and I secured the cPanel and server (WHM) and WordPress administrator with 2fa so no one will be able to reach them except me.
I downloaded the ...
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Updating the "WordPress published date"?
My site is the number 1 result in a search for "board game conventions" (see screenshot below). The only thing that concerns me is that the date shows as 2017, even though I update this ...
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Deceptive site ahead - WordPress Backend Edit Post/Page
Error Message (While Editing Page / Adding Page in WordPress using Google Chrome - Only happens for Chrome Users):
"Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on 24-tsb.net may trick you into doing something ...
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If I'm using a CDN should I host my images (the originals) at high resolution and no compression?
I'm about to start testing W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress with Cloudflare for CDN.
Is there any downside (other than file size/space on server) to hosting the original images that the CDN uses to ...
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I have All in one SEO plugin, how can I remove my sitemap.xml.gz?
My website currently facing 2 sitemaps, one is sitemap.xml and the other is sitemap.xml.gz.
I want to remove sitemap.xml.gz from my website. How can I do that with my "All in one SEO plugin"?...
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WordPress nginx proxy manager + apache: redirect loop
I've moved (manually, db backup + folder transfer) 4 wordpress websites from one host to another, maintaining the same configuration (nginx proxy manager in docker on 80/443 plus apache on 444/https). ...
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How can we redirect all pagination URL to main page
We want to redirect https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/page/2/ to https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/ or all blog category pagination to the main category ...
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Weird URLs in Google Search Console
Looking at our Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag in the Google Search console we have tens of thousands of these URLs that look like this.
/page/2/?s=Xổ+số+thể+thao+Xổ+số+kiến+thiết+bóng+đá+5+lần+bao+nhiêu+...
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How can I replace my site's domain name on search engines with its business name?
I'm building a site and I've noticed that when I search my site's name on Google, unlike other sites my website's URL is displayed instead of the business title.
Can somebody please help me figure ...
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301 Redirects & SEO
I'll keep it short and sweet.
My website features a gallery set up as posts that showcase products on vehicles.
Example 1: website.com/product-1-ford-f150/
Example 2: website.com/product-2-ford-f150/
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Should I enable cloudflare crawler hints with Yoast SEO?
I have a WordPress site, and I want to have more traffic. I already have Yoast SEO installed in WordPress. Should I also enable CloudFlare crawler hints, and can it cause security issues? I see the ...
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Using apex domain registered at WordPress
I have a domain registered at WordPress, let's say it's example.com.
I have my webpage hosted with GitHub pages and was able to add a CNAME record in the WordPress DNS settings pointing to said github....
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Stop any search engine from indexing/crawling images in a dedicated folder in wp
How can I prevent a dedicated image folder from crawling/indexing by any search bot? Like Google search or image or Bing search/image bot?
I would like to give that folder name as
/donotindex/ here ...
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How to get hCaptcha work with contact form 7 (WordPress)?
I don't manage to get hcaptcha to work with Wordpress contact form 7 forms:
I have created an account and site at hcaptcha, then installed the hcaptcha plug-in according to the guide at https://...
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