The plugin generates a lot of emty pages

Hi @hbh-art,

We’re aware that the way our Calendar plugin is created can generate calendar pages with no events, as a Calendar feature it should allow your visitors to navigate throught all days, months, etc, but it indeed create some empty pages.

I’m running some experiments on our end and already checking how to improve that for all of our users, keeping a good usability and improving some seo aspects, and those experiments will be useful to improve our next plugin versions.

The good news: If you need to block pages with those parameters from being indexed by Google or other search engine tools, you can use the robots.txt file to block it. You can add a robots.txt file on your server root file or use SEO plugins to manage your robots.txt file (Rank Math and Yoast SEO have that option).

On my testing sites I use the following robots.txt file to block some default WordPress pages and Event Calendar parameters:

## For WordPress

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/*
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: */comments
Disalow: ?replytocom*
Disallow: */comments-page-*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /tag/*
Disallow: /page/*
Disallow: /author/*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

## For Events Calendar
Disallow: *post_type=tribe_events*
Disallow: *hide_subsequent_recurrences=*
Disallow: *tribe-bar-date=*
Disallow: *tribe-venue=*
Disallow: *eventDisplay=*
Disallow: *eventDate=*
Disallow: *paged=*
Disallow: *shortcode=*
Disallow: *ical=*
Allow: /events/
Allow: /event/

Thank you for the answer. I have Yoast. Is it possible manage the robots.txt without serios risk for damage?

Or maybe I should just wait for the next update?

Hi there,

The robots.txt lines on that code I’ve shared before will block only URL parameters, preserving your main calendar pages and single event pages, so it’ll not create any issues.

Those parameters only manipulates the event listing when your visitors click on pagination links, categories, etc, and will let Google index all views properly.

We’re working to improve those items on the plugin from the inside out, but as that’s a improvement that should take some time to be ready, I can’t promisse on which next version it’ll be included.

Thank you. I will try. Where in Yoast shall I put it? Is it in file editor?

Using Yoast SEO plugin, you can edit your robots.txt file in Yoast SEO > Tools > File editor.

Here’s a link to their documentation: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-edit-robots-txt-through-yoast-seo/

Hi @hbh-art,

We haven’t heard from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions!

Best,
Abz

Hi Abz
So sorry. I forgot to answer. Yes it is solved, and you were a good help. Thank you so much.
Best regards
Helle