Noindex Past Events sets noindex to all events not just past events

ulfandreas — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:44:12 +0000

Replies: 1

I have a question about the plug-in ”Noindex Past Events”.
We have been using it to prevent past events form showing in Googles search result.

But this fall we have noticed that all our events have this code embedded.

The result is that no events is indexed.

Can it be so that the plug-in no longer is up-to-date?

This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by ulfandreas.

Multilingual site – Adds NOINDEX to non English future events

Frank — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 21:57:42 +0000

Replies: 0

Hi !

You have a great little plugin here that answers my very specific requirement. I just wanted to report that on my bilingual site it doesn’t behave normally on the French version of my events’ pages. Well, I think it has to do with the language or the different date formats used with the language but I could be wrong.

So, the French version of my events (past, present or future) are all tagged with a NOINDEX but it works normally with the English versions where only the passed one are tagged.

We’re actually debating if we should tag them all with NOINDEX therefore this isn’t really an inconvenience but I thought you’d like to know.

Thanks,

Francois

Proposed Patch: Add Yoast SEO integration

KZeni — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:21:25 +0000

Replies: 0

Hi,

I use Yoast SEO on my site along with The Events Calendar and Algolia Search. I have my Algolia search index filter out results based on the Yoast SEO index setting for a given post (via the function shown on https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-wordpress/blob/develop/docs/src/indexing-flow.md). This plugin is great, but it currently just adds a noindex tag onto the page without interacting with anything else so this leaves my Algolia Search indexing these past events as well as Yoast SEO not knowing these pages are set to noindex.

I’ve proposed a patch which keeps the existing method if Yoast SEO isn’t enabled while opting to use Yoast SEO for noindex if it is enabled. Also, I swapped out time() for current_time() so it references WordPress’ local time for determining whether an event is passed.

Here’s the full noindex-past-events.php file after my patch:


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// Don't load directly
if (!defined('ABSPATH')) { exit; }

// Main function for adding noindex tag when appropriate if Yoast SEO *isn't* enabled
function r34npe_noindex_past_events_without_yoast_seo() {
	global $post;
	if (!is_admin() && is_singular() && @$post->post_type == 'tribe_events') {
		if (!function_exists('tribe_get_end_date')) { return false; }
		if(!defined('WPSEO_VERSION')){ // Yoast SEO is not enabled. Output noindex tag directly via wp_head.
			if (strtotime(tribe_get_end_date($post->ID,true,'Y-m-d H:i:s')) < strtotime(current_time( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ))) { // Event is in the past (using current_time so it uses site's local timezone)
				echo "\n\n\n\n";
			}
		}
	}
}
add_action('wp_head', 'r34npe_noindex_past_events_without_yoast_seo');

// Main function for adding noindex tag when appropriate if Yoast SEO *is* enabled
function r34npe_noindex_past_events_with_yoast_seo() {
	global $post;
	if (!is_admin() && is_singular() && @$post->post_type == 'tribe_events') {
		if (!function_exists('tribe_get_end_date')) { return false; }
		if (defined('WPSEO_VERSION') && strtotime(tribe_get_end_date($post->ID,true,'Y-m-d H:i:s')) < strtotime(current_time( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' )) && get_post_meta($post->ID, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', true) != 1) { // Yoast SEO is enabled, event is in the past (using current_time so it uses site's local timezone), and Yoast hasn't set the current post to noindex yet.
			update_post_meta( $post->ID, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', '1' ); // Set noindex for this event via Yoast SEO instead of outputting own noindex tag.

			// Check if this is a recurring event. We should do the same noindex check/update for the main recurring event.
			if(function_exists( 'tribe_is_recurring_event' ) && tribe_is_recurring_event()){
				$recurrence_parent_id = wp_get_post_parent_id( $event_id );
				if ( empty( $recurrence_parent_id ) ) { // Didn't have a parent so this must be the parent event
					$recurrence_parent_id = $event_id;
				}
				if (strtotime(tribe_get_end_date($recurrence_parent_id,true,'Y-m-d H:i:s')) < strtotime(current_time( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' )) && get_post_meta($recurrence_parent_id, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', true) != 1){ // Recurring event is in the past and Yoast hasn't set this recurring parent event to noindex yet (we already did the Yoast SEO enabled check.)
					update_post_meta( $recurrence_parent_id, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', '1' ); // Set noindex for this parent recurring event via Yoast SEO
				}
			}
		}
	}
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'r34npe_noindex_past_events_with_yoast_seo');

// Add admin page
function r34npe_admin() {
	// Missing plugin notice
	if (!is_plugin_active('the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar.php')) {
		add_action('admin_notices', 'r34npe_missing_plugin');
	}
	// Admin page
	else {
		// Placeholder for future admin page
	}
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'r34npe_admin');

// Admin notice for missing plugin
function r34npe_missing_plugin() {
	?>
	noindex Past Events requires The Events Calendar plugin, but it is missing. Please activate or install The Events Calendar, or deactivate noindex Past Events.


I would love to see this included officially in the next version of this plugin. Thanks for the great plugin!

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Noindex Past Events sets noindex to all events not just past events

Multilingual site – Adds NOINDEX to non English future events

Proposed Patch: Add Yoast SEO integration