Hey Vinny,

I’m sure we could look in to the sitemap issue if you decide you’d like to run it and encounter the same problem be sure to ask!

As for the settings, it’s really down to what you want, and to me it looks fine – but I am not a SEO expert by any stretch of the imagination! Hopefully someone can chime in with some more useful advice..

when I try to upload the sitemap plugin the error says it cannot find a pluggin file…pretty sure I am doing something wrong…Does it work like any other pluggin? upload and it installs?

thanks

Exactly the same as all other SP plugins, but it isn’t standalone – it integrates with the Google XML sitemap plugin by Arne Brachhol. Have you got that installed too?

this explains how sp plugins work:  https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/plugins/plugin-basics/using-plugins/

yes that’s the one that wont install and has errror

Ok it is installed ….ty

Good to know, so is everything working correctly?

Here are my SEO settings.

For best results you should disable the forum pages seo. Easy to do if using AIO Seo Pack. Not able to do with Yoast WordPress SEO. Your sp seo title and meta description will be picked up by search.

But social sharing will scrape the forum pages open graph tags added by Yoast and make sharing the proper title and meta description impossible. If using AIO just check the toggle on the forum page to disable that.

not sure what you think cant be done in wordpress seo, but thanks for chiming in!

Mr Papa said
not sure what you think cant be done in wordpress seo, but thanks for chiming in!

Yoast SEO open graph tags get in the way when social sharing a simple:press forum post.

Here are my findings. If you have a way to disable Yoast forum page og tags I’m all ears.

Regards, Ed

you want to remove the OG Tags from any forum page???

something like this should do the trick:

add_action('wp_head', 'sp_remove_seo_og', 1);
function sp_remove_seo_og() {
    if (sp_is_forumpage()) remove_action( 'wpseo_head', array( $GLOBALS['wpseo_og'], 'opengraph' ), 30 );
}

added to your spFunctions.php file of your sp theme…

Mr Papa said
you want to remove the OG Tags from any forum page???

something like this should do the trick:

<br />

add_action('wp_head', 'sp_remove_seo_og', 1);
function sp_remove_seo_og() {
    if (sp_is_forumpage()) remove_action( 'wpseo_head', array( $GLOBALS['wpseo_og'], 'opengraph' ), 30 );
}

<br />

added to your spFunctions.php file of your sp theme…

That sounds interesting. Will try that tomorrow. Google still indexes my forum with no problems. Possibly add open graph and featured image support for sp?  Add to the current seo plugin or add another. It’s really needed for social sharing sp forum posts.

As it is now I would rather sites scrape sp title and description meta instead of the forum page default og tags. 

Here is a screen grab of what i am seeing. The meta title tag is correct. But when social sharing any open graph tags take precedence. 

you are seeing the OG tags with my code change?  It removes them for me on forum pages…

Mr Papa said
you are seeing the OG tags with my code change?  It removes them for me on forum pages…

No I have not done the code change yet, will do that in the morning. Just wanted to add a screen grab to my article for Joost to see. 

He could have helped with it. Instead he washed his hands of it and told me to hire a freelancer. Not good customer service especially after I sent him $89.