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11 hours ago, We are Borg said:

Is their a way to disable all add-ons in one go

Plugin page has disable all. Also you can run the support tool after it clears cache select that the problem hasn't been resolved and it should give an option to disable all customizations.

1 hour ago, We are Borg said:

@TAMAN

I have issues with Google ads. If i enable the following locations " Just below the page header" and " Just above the page footer" i get very weird results. The first is below page header that is seen as follows.

Its above the navigation bar and that acts weird to if you enable ads. See next picture.

With enabling " Just below the page header" i also get ads in the sidebar. In the blog entries in our volunteer section and blog comments and a little on that is outside every box.

With " Just above the page footer" i get the ad above navbar  and no where else.

If i turn off it all works is this a theme error or something else.

 

If you don't figure it out here's another possible solution. You could use this widget / block and place it in desired location using the page builder:

In the activity stream there appears to be untranslated content:

The member in question posted a comment on his marker and in the activity stream an untranslated string appears. Here's the link to his marker: https://www.christforums.com/membermap/markers/marker/2-dean-scott/?tab=comments#comment-1

On 8/4/2019 at 1:55 AM, Gauravk said:

Hi William,

Can you share how you are measuring your traffic?

Most accurate is Google Analytics and it seems you maybe counting the cpanel or other type of direct traffic that doesn't filter the bots.

1.6 Million Alexa ranking doesn't tie with 500+ visitors daily. It should have been 500K-600K easily.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/christforums.com#trafficstats

We were getting close to 1K unique traffic earlier, which now dropped since 2 week and our Alexa is around 300-400K

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/carnity.com#trafficstats

Love to hear from others about their real traffic metrics, which very rare user share here.

Many thanks for the suggestion, I will def give this a shot.

Any update from your site since you implemented this.....?

Didn't have the Alexa code installed  a week or so. The certified ranking according to them included no traffic being reported for a week.

I'm not using Google Analytics but since the beginning of my site's creation use AWStats in Cpanel.

Real traffic from Alexa, at least in my experience, has resulted in a lower ranking than not paying for the certified metrics. Alexa seems too generous with its estimated metrics.

William

13 hours ago, Gauravk said:

Can you please shed some light on what all you have done for W3C Validation, maybe a new topic if its too much to share, as that can help others too. 

Thanks in advance.

I hired @Adlago to go through the site in order to get it to validate. He did much of the work.

I recommend Adlago as he does great work. 

Just now, jesuralem said:

Quick question : was your traffic already low prior to your migration?

i am still planning my migration from vb5 to ips and this is always a risky leap...

We were averaging around 850-900 visitors every day for over a year with Vbulletin 5. Immediately after the migration we dipped below 500 visitors a day...... then it slowly crawled upwards when after two months we began averaging 700 visitors a day....... that is until today. In the last week we've noticed a slight upward fluctuation and today it just busted past the average taking us to a new site record.

Now, before anyone gets really excited one can see that on July 7th I purchased this plugin. Today is less than a month later - August 7th. Now the problem is throughout this month have I not only installed this plugin and seen it work as Google is reporting no-index and actually de-indexing a lot of thin material, but I've also implemented other changes such as making the site W3C Validate. My particular site really suffered from thin content because we use a RSS Importer to create news articles and those are only small clips created from articles and are published. The plugin no-indexed those particular topics but yet when comments filled out below the OP the no index was changed to index.

Since December of 2018 when I migrated from Vbulletin 5 to IPS4 our traffic has been relatively low receiving anywhere from 500-800 visitors in a 24 hour span. Our highest visitors for one 24 hour day had topped out at a little over 900 visitors. I was just surprised to see our daily stats which has now past the mid way tracking for the day. After 12 hours we've set our own personal record using IPS4 and now pushed past 1,048 visitors. If today's trend continues we'll nearly double our traffic. I'm hoping that the changes made in the last 3 weeks or so are finally being noticed by Google's algorithm. The most difficult thing about SEO work is that one has to make changes and wait for Google to reindex the site which can take weeks or months depending on the size. I'm referring to a delayed observation = change, wait, and see.

Your thoughts?
William

Please ignore. Issue resolved.

Is anyone else running into problems where avatars won't load in the Activity stream after hitting "Load More Activity"? The new threads that show don't load the avatars. https://www.christforums.com/discover/

Has anyone verified the sitemap doesn't show an updated transition from no index to index? I haven't.

Just now, Matt said:

Does the sitemap also take that into account?

Not something I checked!

46 minutes ago, Matt said:

What happens if the question posed is short, and less than 100 words but the replies are rich and valuable in keywords and education?

Looks like the page is then made to index.

That was one my initial concerns. I run a RSS news feed import and the brief articles (one sentence) created by the rss importer are no index. But as replies are made it appears that the page is then becomes or are made index.

For example, examining the "source" and looking at https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/15597-president-trump-wall/

The following occurs: <meta name="robots" content="index">

However, a short article such as this: https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/26213-donald-trump-rock-star-welcome-for-ilhan-omar-staged-in-minnesota/

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

22 hours ago, opentype said:

You’re missing what that means for the users. It‘ not like they see a blank screen until the 2 MB are fully loaded. The page rendering will start exactly at the same time, with or without lazyload, if the image dimensions are known. With lazyload, there might be a tiny loading advantage above-the-fold and then a disadvantage of newly introduced wait time while scrolling. Without lazyload you don’t have that scrolling wait time, but a slightly slower above-the-fold finish time. Again, I tested this and could not see clear benefits for a typical use of my template products and even a considerably worse experience in some cases. 

You could, but I do not recommend it. If you modify any template, you can’t receive updates for it anymore. 

Also keep in mind that native browser lazyload is coming. I’m happy to support that in the future, since it is a proper and elegant solution. JavaScript-based lazyload really is not. 

Browser companies must recognize the benefit of LazyLoad!

3 hours ago, opentype said:

No. 

 

I realize that you know whether your app would need to be rewritten for Lazyload but please correct me if wrong. If I have a page with a lot of images with Lazy Load only the images in the viewable window are actually downloaded. Thus making the page appear smaller and quicker to load? That is, until I scroll down.

For example, my front page is 2mb in size and would probably be recognized as being around 700kb with lazy load. Without all 2mb is loaded at once.

Am I missing something here?

If I am correct and you do not want to implement LazyLoad is it permissible for me to hire someone to implement it to your product?

On 7/7/2019 at 12:42 AM, Christforums said:

G'evening HeadStand,

Newsletter is v. 2.1.2 and IPS4.4.4.

Lastly, I removed the unsubscribe code and reentered it, saved, and sent myself a test of the distribution and now only the raw code display with no link.

Though the test distribution only showed the code the actual distribution shows a link. Clicking it though results in page not found:

1 hour ago, sobrenome said:

Any feedback from google already?

 

I think we need to wait for the entire site to be reindexed during which time no-index might be dropped. I suspect this process may take 8-12 weeks. Until then!

15 minutes ago, SF_Ronin said:

I have been getting 2S119/1 error when trying to log into the AdminCP regularly when using latest MacOS and Safari. It doesn't seem to occur on Firefox. Is this a known issue? 

Best bet is to fill out a support ticket because there's no guarantee support will see this.

Just purchased the plugin and willing to give it a shot. I see the general consensus on the web is that Panda considers less than 250 words thin content.

I'm setting the minimum word count at 100 words to begin.

13 minutes ago, Christforums said:

Hi Taman,

Regarding the little Triangles at the footer.

I have a custom CSS which attempts to close the blank between the template footer

.af_Container {
padding-bottom: 0
}

This causes the little triangle. Without there is a different color gap at the bottom:

 

Please disregard. The following CSS resolved the issue:

#ipsLayout_footer::before {
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    border-bottom: 0;
    border-left: 0;
}

#ipsLayout_footer::after {
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    border-bottom: 0;
    border-left: 0;
    border-right: 0;
}
.af_Container {
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

Hi Taman,

Regarding the little Triangles at the footer.

I have a custom CSS which attempts to close the blank between the template footer

.af_Container {
padding-bottom: 0
}

This causes the little triangle. Without there is a different color gap at the bottom:

3 hours ago, HeadStand said:

I am unable to reproduce this issue. It would be helpful if you would post the link that you are being taken to. I fixed this problem a few months ago and haven't had any complaints since. Are you sure you're running the latest version? What version of IPS do you have? 

 

G'evening HeadStand,

Newsletter is v. 2.1.2 and IPS4.4.4.

Lastly, I removed the unsubscribe code and reentered it, saved, and sent myself a test of the distribution and now only the raw code display with no link.

On 7/4/2019 at 2:42 PM, Christforums said:

Also unsubscribe link doesn't work for my site. Takes people to page doesn't exists......

 

Sorry, there is a problem

The page you requested does not exist

Error code: 1S160/2

@HeadStand Hi, this presents a real pain because an admin can't simply unsubscribe a member from site news letter in admincp. The admin has to login as the user and navigate to the members account settings and then under the "newsletter" menu option unsubscribe from the site newsletter distribution.

That is in contrast of unsubscribing through the admincp>>members>>edit profile>>notifications>>unsubscribe is not the same newsletter so unsubscribing from it does not unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution.

Hope this is worked out!
William

Also unsubscribe link doesn't work for my site. Takes people to page doesn't exists......

Sorry, there is a problem

Error code: 1S160/2

Thank you for updating the gif and other icons in the editor!

Latest version rocks!

When I try to add another group to a global sticky note and save I get:

Tried to reach out a week ago through private message and haven't heard back.