reggiequestions

Hi Herman thanks so much for your response. Do you work for astra? I had submitted a ticket and never gotten a response. I dont like to share URL because in the future, if anyone ever googles my URL, this post will show up. **also I dont know if this is a wordpress problem, or an astra problem, or some other issue.

here is an image of a post that appears when you click on appearance–>customize https://imgur.com/a/y4ZQI1F You can see pagination and a thick white line (that section is above the footer which I did not picture.)

but on the actual published post, you dont see any pagination, nor do you see the thick white line above the disclosure. i dont want the thick white line but i wonder what is creating it. i do want the pagination.

I dont know if you can help but I do appreciate the response!

Hi, thanks so much for your response. I think I figured out what the problem was – and there was no way you could have known!

it wasn’t the way I was adding links (since I add them all the same way and some work and some don’t, I figured it wasn’t the way I was adding links that was the problem – but astute of you to look at every detail!!)

I noticed after my initial post here that all the links that weren’t working in chrome on different posts ALL happened to be towards the footer, never at the top of the page.

I had just installed a newsletter signup form (follow.it) via a widget in the footer. I had given that widget a negative margin so it could be close to the bottom of the post. Well once I changed the margin to 0, now all the links are showing. So it was footer negative margin that was the problem!!

No way you could have known bc I didnt provide any of those details. I’m sorry!! Anyway you are so cool to write back and thank you so much.

what a cool username youve got! thanks for your answer. awesome plugin, it works!!! saved me a ton of time.

I’m pretty sure it’s a daylight savings issue – posts for the next few days are going to post at 12.01, but once November 7 hits, the post scheduled for 1201am change to 11.01pm

and i do have my time zone set to my local time zone in settings –> general

That’s so cool. You’ve taught me something important and answered my original question which was driving me crazy. THANK YOU!!!!!!

Thanks so much! Last question (i think) – why is doing a redirect a far better way than using an seo plugin like rankmath? Not challenging you – I know pretty much nothing – just trying to learn.

That’s a great idea, why didn’t I think of that? The only issue is, even if it is redirected, wouldn’t still be able to index it (you wrote no above basically, but I dont understand how that works.) if it only redirects and google can still index it, then first few blog posts would still show in the – is it called snippet? description? in google.

So what I did is installed rankmath and marked that category page as noindex. I also renamed the category to something that is not easily guessable. Time will tell if it works or not. But a page redirect is another great idea, especially if it makes google not index it – but even if google indexes it, it’s still a good backup idea. Thank you!

I’ll leave this open in case you want to reply. If not, I undertand!

Hi, thanks for confirming it’s not a page! Yep I saw under posts –> categories, that “uncategorized” is a default category…I dont want any categories, and I see that I can’t delete “uncategorized” category, only rename it. It actually doesn’t bother me that wordpress assigns it a category.

What bothers me is I dont want this link to be findable, I want this “category listing” to be indexed by google, and I don’t want anyone who has a crafty mind to just go to my website and type in that URL since it’s kind of default for wordpress sites I suppose so it’s easy to figure out. I’m asking how to do that.

Should I try installing some SEO plugin and change some robot.txt file for that URL and tell google not to index that page, and also change the category name to somehing weird so no one would know to type in the name of the category in the URL on their own (people could think to type in “uncategorized” but probably would not think to type in “xpohepihv”)

or is it better to change a robot.txt file on my own without an SEP plugin adding bloat?

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well because of your reply I figured out a few things and now even have more questions – THANK YOu!!

1. when you wrote Pretty Links, i first thought you meant the plugin pretty Links! but then i saw your link. yes, we went to permalinks and changed it to say “post name” it did indeed say index before! you were right about that!

i called my host and they told me to go to google search console and ask google to reindex the site. he said not to worry about htaccess

2. but the other problem is, that page that google sends people to (the one that formerly had index.php in the url) still exists, just with a prettier URL (https://mywebsite.com/category/uncategorized/). i didn’t underestand when i first made this post what that page consisted of.

i guess i am in the strange situation of not wanting this page, which is a list of (and links to) all my post titles, to exist at all. i guess all wordpress themes have this as a normal function, but i don’t want it for this particular project. is there a way to HIDE this particular page (which has blog post names/links on it) from existence? my host suggested i unpublish it, but i never created this page..it just exists.

3. i also am wondering why a different website i have isn’t showing the same kind of page (a list of all the posts) when i google the domain. maybe bc they have different themes?

i understand now my questions #2 adn 3 aren’t what was originally asked so i may have to repost them on this forum separately, if you dont know the answers. i also guess people won’t know about this page unless they somehow knew about the URL – so that would be cool, but i’m afraid google will index this URL too and the we are back to square one.

any thoughts? am i making sense? i really appreciate your help, i’m tearing my hair out.

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i guess i will mark as resolved!

Thanks. I am so surprised a username is considered publicly available information and surprised there is no text telling you this on wordpress when you create an admin name. To me that’s just login information. No one mentoined this in any of the setting up wordpress courses i took and it appears u know more than they do!

Yes I have already created new admin user with new username and generic email address and deleted the old one. Yo just taught me about first name last name issue, so i will fill all that info out with site name basically. thank you!

I will look into the google information you provided. even if google removes the info, i am wondering if someone uses the wayback machine or something if it’ll still appear. Gah. Thanks for all your help!!

please disregard ??

please disregard!

you are the best, thanks so much. we are underwater with a few projects at one but i just wanted to write back to thank you and let you know we’ll look into full site editing and other types of themes. i have taken notes on what you wrote for future reference. thanks!!!