A couple of H1 questions

The H1 on a blog home page has been brought up at times on other themes and other time periods with regards to WordPress and SEO. Even the default WP themes don’t have it, even with the default themes, the only H1 for the blog home page (where the post summaries are shown) is the site title (if using a text based title/logo).

One option to get an H1 for your blog is when you link to a blog category. This would then load your category name (as an H1) at the top of the page with an optional description. What is interesting is that WordPress doesn’t do a blog home page title or description, only for categories.

I would not put too much emphasis on the blog H1 SEO issue.

As for your featured image question….it’s very tricky to determine how and where a social plugin will put the icons because this is coded in the plugin. As for the image being above the content and below the title and post meta info, this can be done, but you will need to use a child theme for this because you have to move the code for this to the new spot.

I believe you are already using a child theme?

Sure, I’m already using a child theme on my website.

In that case, you will need to copy the content-single.php file into your child theme, and then look for this code:

<?php if( get_theme_mod( 'hide_featured_image' ) == '') { ?>
	<?php
        // Post thumbnail.
        emphasize_featured_image();
    ?>
<?php } ?>

Move it below this:

</header><!-- .entry-header -->

You will probably have to adjust the CSS margin to space the top of the featured image from the meta info…something like this:

.single .post-thumbnail {
    margin-top: 20px;
}

Thanks again Shaped Pixels.

That works again)