Turn Off Notifications

No problem, you can dismiss any informational notification using their dismiss link in the upper-right-hand corner. If the notice is a serious error that needs to be fixed, then the issue should be resolved to avoid seeing the error. If there’s any notification message you don’t understand or can’t dismiss, let me know and I’ll be happy to assist further.

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Hi JSM

I get inundated with notifications because each image I use does not conform to the standard schema markup, but because of server space, I have to use smaller sizes.
Is there a way to remove these notifications as to click each one every time I visit the post is too long-winded? Hope you can help as I love everything else about the plugin

There’s no “dismiss” link in the messages. Seems to have gone missing in a recent update.

I get inundated with notifications because each image I use does not conform to the standard schema markup, but because of server space, I have to use smaller sizes. Is there a way to remove these notifications as to click each one every time I visit the post is too long-winded? Hope you can help as I love everything else about the plugin.

@andymossy If you’re not going to choose a larger image in the Document SSO metabox to provide required images for Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., then what’s the point of using WPSSO? Google requires three images in the Schema markup, and the 1:1 format must be at least 1200px in width and height. If your featured / attached / content image(s) are not at least 1200px in width and height, then you should select a larger image in the Document SSO metabox or enable the image upscale option. If you simply ignore the warning from WPSSO about the missing image, then Google could exclude your webpage from search results, or rank it lower – WPSSO is designed to prevent that. ??

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There’s no “dismiss” link in the messages. Seems to have gone missing in a recent update.

@seezee All information notices should be dismissable. If the notice is for an error that must be fixed, then the notice is not dismissible – it goes away when the error is fixed. ?? Is there a notification message you feel should be dismissable and isn’t? There shouldn’t be, but if there is, please copy-paste the text of the notification message and I can remedy that in the next WPSSO Core version.

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Thanks for all the quick responses! I think the real issue is for us with websites containing a lot of images, many of which were created before Google added still another “requirement”, then the image notifications are just constant pain. I can’t go back through literally thousands of images–some of which do not meet the criteria of Google’s latest tyrannical “schema”–to spend countless hours finding or making images that meet the 1200×1200 px demand. Sometimes, Google just needs to get out of the way! That’s why I want to make these nagging notifications go away! It was a great plugin, but now the notification banners just get in the way of my work. Please make an off switch for the pull-down notifications. You could still highlight the plugin logo in the upper Admin toolbar to alert us of when a notification occurs.

@thewatcher2 If you’re not editing a post/page, then you shouldn’t see any notifications about that post/page – it’s only when editing the post/page that WPSSO should alert you if there are any issues. If some images are too small, the warning notifications from WPSSO should be dismissible. Are they not dismissible? If not, then please copy-paste an example text and I can have a look (image warnings should be dismissible). BTW, 1200px really is not that big at all – if you’re updating the content of an old post/page, that has a small featured image, then why you wouldn’t fix the image at the same time as you’re updating the content? The issue with uploading small featured images isn’t just a problem for Google, it also affects your visitor experience. See here for more info: https://wpsso.com/docs/plugins/wpsso/faqs/why-shouldnt-i-upload-small-images-to-the-media-library/

The reason notifications now auto-show since WPSSO Core v10.1.0 is because a large percentage of users are completely unaware of the notifications – there may be serious errors affecting their markup, but they do not know and the errors remain unfixed.

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EDIT: it was a caching issue.

The notices I’m seeing with no means to dismiss are not errors that must be fixed. For instance, this update notice won’t go away and can’t be dismissed. Refreshing the page or navigating to a different page has no effect.

It’s possible that it’s a caching issue. I will look into that.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Chris J. Z?hller.

EDIT: it was a caching issue.

I’m glad to know that you found the issue. The update/success notice in question is only shown once when plugin settings are saved and auto-dismisses after 2-3 seconds. When you navigate to another page or reload the current page, that notice should no longer be there – it’s only an update/success message to let you know that the plugin settings have been saved, and in some cases, may recommend clearing the cache to reflect changes to the settings on the front-end.

WPSSO Core v10.3.0 was just released, and considering the feedback from this thread, I’ve left the update/success notice auto-show for 2-3 seconds, but all other notices will stay hidden until the cursor hovers over the SSO notification icon. I think this might strike a balance between letting users know that SSO notifications exist and not making them annoying. ??

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Between Cloudflare caching and the Openlitespeed cache plugin and setting very long “expires” headers, it’s nearly always a caching issue.

@seezee When a back-end page loads, WPSSO will make an ajax call (via an ‘admin_head’ action hook), pickup any pending notices (deleting them from the transient object, and then updating the transient cache), then updates the toolbar. Once a notice has been picked-up, since it’s deleted from the transient cache, it should only show once. Error type notices, for example, may be recreated on every page load until the error is fixed, but success/update type notices are only created once and only displayed once. If you find that a success/update message is being displayed more than once as you refresh the webpage or move to another webpage, then this might signal an issue with your transient cache. You may want to define the WP_DEBUG constant as true, enable the Query Monitor plugin, and enable the javascript console in your web browser to check for any errors. See here for more info: https://wpsso.com/docs/plugins/wpsso/installation/troubleshooting-guide/

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Thanks! I’ll look into that.