Can’t read from template based pages

I have decades of experience in the technology realm, but new to word press. I was warned about plug-ins and compatibility – I should have listened.

After spending time with a vendor to use their tools to build a site in a short period of time, I am totally flabbergasted that tools like Yoast cannot read content of a page that was based upon a template theme.

Nobody tells you this beforehand. Just use “this plugin” or “that plugin” – millions of users. Like reading the fine print on your credit card terms of use – you only find out after the fact.

Talk to the theme and application developers, and they tell you to talk to the plug-in vendor for workarounds. Talk to the plug-in vendor, and they tell you that the application developer must put in code to allow the SEO plugin to have access to the text.

And the workarounds are all horrendous. And yes we know that Google will read the contents anyway. But what is the point? You have a tool that helps you with everything, and you can’t use it.

And for those that say that I shouldn’t have used 3rd party drag and drop tools – we had just had a few days to complete our project because of factors out of our control. Of course Elementor is fully compatible, and we didn’t use them – we used Spectra.

Yoast, and others have an obligation to spell this out to customers – as do the application developers. I will be posting this to Spectra as well.