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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Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of this?
I run a niche community and we have lots of users with very little experience, so it's hard to decide, sometimes, whether this is just a problem with amateurs butting heads with their virus software, ...
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.htaccess permanent redirect to www
I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with www.
Example: http://example.com/dir/ doesn't send to http://www.example.com/dir/ instead goes to http://example.com/.
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Someone has cloned my WordPress blog, how do I prevent it from hurting SEO?
My WordPress blog is completely cloned. That clone site is updating in real time with my blog. I am surprised that someone can actually do that.
What should I do to stop harmful impact in my search ...
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Wordpress Category/Tag Pages As Indexed Actually Help In Traffic?
I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- ...
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Can you use an external 301 redirect for a blog post hosted on wordpress.com?
My friend has a WordPress blog and he wants to move some of the posts to another site. I suggested that he install a redirect plugin to do so.
He wrote back:
I think the plugin you offered ...
asked Oct 20 '16 at 15:52
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My WordPress site has been attacked, it says “Reported Attack Page!”
Three days back my website ganapatihegde.com has been hacked/attacked by some hacker. Now, when anyone tries to see my website, it says "Reported Attack Page!".
I am using a server provided by Free ...
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Ask Google to remove thousands of pages from its index after cleaning up from hacked site
I've had my website hacked. I have cleaned it and searched google site:example.com and made a list of all the results. Removed the actual links that are OK and made a list of the ones in the format of ...
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SEO Implications of blog on site versus offsite?
I recently added a blog to one of our company's websites, and was confident that this increase in content on the site would have only positive SEO results. My boss, however, feels that we should have ...
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Is Wordpress appropriate for building a website (not a blog)?
I want to start a website, but have no experience in this field. I've heard of Wordpress being a simple way to do things.
However, it seems that Wordpress is mostly for blogs, without the ability to ...
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Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO
I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages.
Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress.
How to ...
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Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post ...
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Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?
I use WordPress and /sample-post/ URLs for my posts and /yyyy/mm/ for the archives.
Google has indexed the site fully.
Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't ...
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How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?
I use bluhost web hosting.
I already have mysite1.com. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. mysite2.com, mysite3.com, and so on. All sites will have the same ...
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Website being indexed twice by Google, one with the correct sublinks and the other with all sublinks redirecting to homepage
As that title says, my website is being indexed by Google twice.
Both indexes have the right SEO information for the home page, such as title and description. However for the sublinks there are two ...
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WordPress with SOFT 404 in Google Search Console (WMT) What causes Q82019309.com?
My brothers site that I designed for him awhile has hundreds of SOFT 404's reported in Google's Search Console formerly Webmaster Tools. Generally I find fixing soft 404 easy but this has me a little ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com.
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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Do WordPress websites get indexed quicker by search engines than a regular website?
I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell.
I then installed WordPress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a ...
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Why does SEO seem to hinge on using wordpress?
Wordpress is the de facto seo weapon of choice. I get that.
What exactly is it about wordpress that is so special? It's blogging software, with some plugins, right?
Why can I not use any old ...
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Does name of sitemap file that Wordpress generates matter?
The Yoast SEO plugin for wordpress creates an XML sitemap with the file name sitemap_index.xml. There is another sitemap plugin (Google XML Sitemaps) in the Wordpress site I'm working on that creates ...
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rel=author and rel=me in WordPress
I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. ...
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how to set 301 redirect in wordpress .htacces file
In continuation of my previously asked question preserve-search-engine-index-while-shifting-to-new-domain.
The migration is being done in the word-press and we will have same server with same IP.Since ...
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Google Fetch Returning 404 Pages That Are Tags With A Web Address Added To The End
I have a Wordpress site that I have set up with Google Fetch and I have been getting a bunch of crawl errors and it has started significantly hurting my Google ranking and site traffic even though it ...
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Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop
I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum ...
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How to deal with a mobile usability issue for a single page in the WordPress uploads directory?
I have just had an email from google console to say “New Mobile Usability issue detected for site https://unusualplaces.org/“ and below that it says
Viewport not set
Text too small to read
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Keyword meta tags to work with Google
I'm trying to optimize my website for better search results, I currently have a meta tag created for keywords like so:
<meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />
I have waited 30 days ...
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A good way to use RDFa in a WordPress post
I'm using the RDFa on the breadcrumbs, and this is the scheme of my code in a post:
<div class="path" vocab="http://rdfa.data-vocabulary.org/#">
<span id="breadex">You are here: </...
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Does editing a Wordpress Theme from scratch affect SEO?
I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with ...
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How to remove trailing slash from my root URL in htaccess?
I've tried several ways to remove the trailing slash from my URL in .htaccess and nothing worked but now even my URL can't be found because now it has a slash.
Here is what my .htaccess looks like. I ...
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Is “article:tag” meta tag necessary?
I just changed my Wordpress theme and I can't find <meta property="article:tag" content=" " /> in my posts and pages metadata. Are they really necessary? If they are how do I add them back?
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Brand name showing before the title in search results [duplicate]
If we search for our brand name or any keywords that relate to our website, the first words to appear in the title shown in the Google result preview follow this format:
Brand Name: Title
Here's a ...
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Are indexed Wordpress admin pages a security threat?
Because it was blocking Googlebot from accessing important files, I recently updated our /robots.txt file and removed most of it, including wp-admin.
Now, the people on charge of hosting and SEO ...
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Most used social bookmarking sites for sharing? [closed]
A lot of WordPress sites have a "share this post to xxx" link. I was wondering which "xxx" people click the most? A top 5 or something like that.
I know Twitter and Facebook are in the list, but are ...
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How to have 2 sitemaps - 1 for main site the other for wordpress in subfolder
Background
My site runs on a dedicated server and and has Wordpress in a subfolder.
I have my mainsite which is not wordpress and that has a sitemap - for example example.com/sitemap.xml ... that ...
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How to verify all https, www and no-www versions with Google Webmaster Tools
I recently started a WordPress blog with HTTPS and want some advice.
I prefer to use HTTPS + www for my blog. In order to do that will I have to add all these 4 types of addresses to Webmaster Tools?
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.htaccess and permanent redirection with a special condition
I have a WordPress website hosted on Bluehost which contains the following URL pattern:
http://www.example.com/2017/01/30/sample-post/
I wanted to permanent redirect it to use this:
http://www....
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Images based website speed
I have a WordPress site which is 90% based on images.
I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster.
I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools:
Page size 4.7MB
Load time 5....
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Mixed Content issue with WordPress, Cloudflare SSL and Genesis Framework
I have a WordPress which is based on the Genesis Framework and uses CloudFlare Flex SSL. The problem occurs in iOS Safari and Firefox mainly, the site gets loaded but without styles and everything ...
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.htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL
Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.
I have a WordPress site hosted in http://...
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How to set up a reverse proxy on an SSL subdirectory from another server?
Setup is as follows:
Our agency's client's domain is https://www.example.com (with SSL certificate from Amazon)
They have NGINX severs, and manage their own hosting
They want us to build a few simple ...
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Avoid SEO loss after URL structure change
We recently re-wrote our site from Umbraco to WordPress. This has been done by third-party developers. I have been the project manager and it is my mistake that I haven't notice the change of URLs ...
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How do I handle the URL of an article that sits in more than one category
In our knowledge base (hosted in Wordpress) we have one article that is relevant to 2 categories. I do not want to duplicate the article and have it sitting separately in each category for fear of ...
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Any good reason to noindex /page/2/ in archives?
In the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast, there is an option that could noindex the subpages of archives. From example, it would noindex the following:
http://example.com/page/2/
http://example.com/page/...
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WordPress HTTP to HTTPS without trailing slash results in double redirect
I have noticed that one of my WordPress powered sites is experiencing double redirects when a user or bot attempts to visit a URL without HTTPS and a trailing slash.
In short:
http://example.com/...
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How to implement WordPress in a subdirectory, hosted on a different server?
I am working with a client who already has a custom e-commerce website set up at their own domain e.g. example.com
We want to host their WordPress blog at a subdirectory of their domain e.g. example....
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Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?
Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section.
The static site was 10 years old a was ...
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Is switching WordPress frameworks later on bad?
I just read that if you get a site established in Google with one WordPress framework, lets say "Thesis", and then change to another one, lets say "Genesis", that you could lose all your traffic from ...
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Indexing Japanese links after hack
A few months ago our website got hacked, similar to what seems to be described in the following - https://developers.google.com/webmasters/hacked/docs/fixing_the_japanese_keyword_hack
We fixed the ...
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Image not appearing when publicizing to facebook
I'm using WordPress and the problem I have is that I don't see any associated images being used when I paste a link into Facebook. Below is my Facebook OG:Data.
<meta property="og:type" content="...
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Setting up site links for a one-page scrolling site: Can anchored links be used?
I redesigned a website as a one-page scrolling site but now the sitelinks that appeared in Google search results are no longer there (ie- "About" "Contact Us")
The site is set up with anchored links ...
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Joomla 1.5 to Wordpress 3.1 migration: how to redirect Joomla's permalinks
I'm migrating a Joomla 1.5 site to a WordPress 3.1 site (I will later update to WP 3.2.x) and I've found the right tool to do it, a plugin called Joomla 1.5 Importer. There is another plugin called ...
