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FidoSysop
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Aug 15, 2015 - 3:36 pm

Hi Guys.. Themes that generate open graph might need to be disabled on the forum page. Use a totally blank forum page with a small featured image.

I have found that Yoast is applying open graph data to the main forum page. Unfortunately open graph takes precedence over meta tags as in (title and description.) This has more to do with social sharing than anything else.

Here is my forum page settings.

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And simple press seo settings.

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Mr Papa
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Aug 15, 2015 - 3:40 pm

yes, if you dont want the open graph tags, you will have to remove them via hooks for the specific  plugin...   wp seo provides these hooks...

in the next version of simple press 5.5.9 due any week now (just waiting on wp 5.5.9), we will have options for adding our own open graph tags...

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FidoSysop
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Aug 15, 2015 - 10:00 pm

How is the alt tags project going? Not trying to be a pita but this forum will be greatly improved when it pleases Google. 

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Mr Papa
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Aug 15, 2015 - 10:20 pm

alt tags???  not sure I follow...  do you mean open graph tags?

done and ready for release...  running here in fact...

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FidoSysop
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Aug 16, 2015 - 7:32 am

Reboot theme images alt tags. You said they were there, just blank. Andy was supposed to be tasked to do it.

SEO is critical to get forum pages well indexed. Good to hear the og is ready. That will solve a lot of social sharing problems. 

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Mr Papa
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Aug 16, 2015 - 11:34 am

not sure reboot has anything to do with blank image alt tags... but this was corrected in core... and ready for release..

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Yellow Swordfish
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Aug 16, 2015 - 3:36 pm

Correct - theme independent. I am not promising that EVERY image will have an alt tag but we should have caught most of them hopefully.

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FidoSysop
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Aug 17, 2015 - 9:02 am

Glad to hear the alt meta has been corrected too. Look forward to the next release.

I done figured it out that keeping up with Google's increasing demands is rewarded with accelerated page ranking.

With that being said, would it be possible to add support for rich text? http://microformats.org/wiki/hentry 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Aug 17, 2015 - 11:22 am

I fully admot to not being geek about these things like SEO and Open Graph (although now I have written in support for that at least I know what it is for!) bit what on earth needs hentry? Is there no end to this madness!

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Aug 17, 2015 - 12:57 pm

Hi Andy.. 

Henrty is post specific Structured Data AKA Rich Snippet Data specific to a post, page, category, or tag. It is mostly theme specific for WordPress sites. Here is more info.

Here is a link to the testing tool. If a site / theme does not have hentry data it will not show up in the tool. But if it's there and has errors they will show. This is testing a blog post.

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Hentry errors are also shown in your Webmaster Tools dashboard under search appearance > structured data. 

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Ain't this fun!

Email me if you need help understanding this. I'm always glad to help out. wink

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