Reduce padding around logo area

Oh I see, thanks for the help. I was very confused about the “sitelinks”. I kept thinking that there was somewhere on Yoast that I was supposed to fill this in!

So for example, one of the categories is “Working”. I see under Titles & Metas> Pages> “Title Templates” = %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Do I leave the “Title Templates” as is and the “Meta Description” blank? Because Google will pick up the title etc. from my “Working” Page and eventually list this as a description of that category?

Webmaster Tools: I’ve submitted our site and verified it (finally). Under Google Index> Total Indexed> it reads 0. Does this mean that none of our pages has been indexed? I have a feeling that something is missing because our Search Analytics has no data…

Also I’m trying to generate a site map using https://www.xml-sitemaps.com, but as usual it has given us an ERROR message.

As you know we are completely new to blogging etc. So far I’ve read that it’s important to check out keywords using Google Trends, Set up Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools. Is there something critical that we’re missing?

All the help you provide is very appreciated! Thanks Ben.

Yea you can leave the templates and meta descriptions there as-is. Those are like fallbacks. You can create a custom title and meta description for every post and page using the Yoast SEO box under the editor.

Hmm not sure about the indexing showing 0. Some things with Google are very fast, but others very slow. You may just have to wait a bit. Since your site shows up when you Google it, we know that Google has indexed it regardless of what the Webmaster Tools say.

You don’t need to generate a sitemap for the site, Yoast already does this. There should be a menu item for this including a link to where your sitemap is hosted.

Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools are the fundamentals. There’s a ton of tools for optimizing sites (including plugins like Yoast), but I wouldn’t say anything else is critical.

Perfect thanks – I’ve submitted sitemaps to Webmaster Tools so I think we’re set for the internet to find us!

I’ll be working on trying to optimize the speed in the next few days so I may have some questions if that’s okay ??

Thank you once again!

Awesome, happy to help ??

Hi Ben,

Just wondering if you would be able to help us make a tweak to remove the titles on the Pages? For example, the About page. If you click into the About category, the title won’t show up on the page. They’re just in a different font that we can’t get to match some of our subheadings. I think you may have helped us do this for another page before…

Thanks!

Yea sure, this CSS should do the trick:

.singular-page .post-header {
  display: none;
}

Great thanks!!

Hi Ben,

We hope you have been doing well!! We were wondering if you might be able to troubleshoot an issue for us. On some of our posts on our blog, it says that the comments are closed. Not exactly sure when/how this happened, we just noticed it yesterday. I’ve tried troubleshooting using strategies I found on Google (making sure the discussion box is checked, etc) but nothing seems to work. Have you ever encountered this issue? As an example of a post with comments closed: https://www.modernflourish.com/things-went-wrong-office-workers/

Thank you!
Stephanie

Hey Stephanie,

Doing great, thanks ??

Hmm there are conditions where that text will be displayed. You can use this CSS to hide it:

.comments-closed {
  display: none;
}

Hi Ben,

Thanks.

We want the comments to be re-opened, though. Not sure why they suddenly were closed all of a sudden.

Thanks,
Stephanie

Oh I see. That’s not something that Morning will affect. Check the current settings in the Discussions settings page (Settings > Discussion). It sounds like the option to close comments after a set period of time may be active.

Perfect! Thank you that worked (it was automatically checked off in the settings to close comments after post 28 days).

Another question for you if you don’t mind. We’re just trying to connect our site to Bloglovin’ with the RSS feed. Unfortunately, the images appear blurry on their site, and their support person said it’s because our thumbnail image sizes are too small (they said to change ours to at least 350px).

Would you mind helping us change that? I was looking to changing it in the Media settings but I read somewhere that the featured images could also be affected?

Thanks!

The Featured Images always use the “full” version of the image, so updating the thumbnail size won’t affect them.

Whenever you upload an image, WordPress creates additional copies based on the thumbnail, medium, and large size set in the Media settings. The image size settings are not retroactive, so changing the thumbnail size will only affect future uploads. After you change the thumbnail size, you can install and run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin and it will create a new thumbnail copy for each existing image based on the new size settings.

Okay thanks Ben, I’ve made the adjustments!

Also, would you know how to increase the number of posts pulled from the RSS feed?

“When you first begin your profile, bloglovin’ will pull the 30 most recent posts from your blog’s RSS feed. I’ve taken a look at your RSS feed and it looks like it only has 10 posts:

https://www.modernflourish.com/feed/

To display more content in your profile, you’ll want to increase the amount of posts included in the above feed. For help with this, you’ll want to work with your blog provider, or whoever helped you with the technical aspects of your blog.”

Great! The setting for the RSS feed post count is in the Reading Settings menu. I believe it will update the feed right away once you change the count there.