victorb70

Thanks for the response. So I read the links you gave me. I am not any clearer on whether they are ACTUALLY important to SEO or it is just something that Yoast developers FEEL is important. The main reason for this confusion is this paragrap[h here.

“At Yoast, we feel that every page should include an outbound link. If you don’t add one, you’ll see a red bullet. We feel so strongly about this because our mission is SEO for everyone. We very much believe in creating equal chances for everyone in the connected web. Websites need to connect to each other to be found, by search engines and users. So help each other out a little, and help us connect the dots of the web. It’ll make it easier for search engines to find websites, but also gain insight in how pages relate to each other. We can build a better web, together.

This is why the Yoast SEO plugin checks for outbound links: we need your help to structure the web. We want interesting websites to rank in Google. We obviously won’t force you, but we do very much appreciate your help. So outbound links definitely matter for SEO. For SEO in general though, not just your website’s.”

Listen, there is one thing that makes me furious. And this is, when professionals make decisions based on there “FEELINGS” rather than Facts. Something either IS important to search engines or it is not. How a person feels about something has no bearing. So I am very sensitive to phrases like, “We feel this is the way it should be.” or “We think you should do this because this is what we like.” That style of phraseology has no place in a professional conversation.

Not trying to be rude, but I don’t give a flying flip what Yoast FEELS, or that Yoast desires for webmasters to sit around a campfire singing “Let’s get together, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! We’ll help each other out!” . I want to know what search engines want to see in a website. Yoast is supposed to be a tool that helps webmasters know what “Search Engines” want, not what Yoast developers FEEL.

Now, maybe Outbound links are important to search engines and I am just being off-put by the way Yoast is choosing to word their advice. Yoast is trying to word things for a modern millennial market that is all about “FEELINGS” and concepts like community collaboration. That is fine, and I understand that, but it makes it very hard for an objective Facts and Figures guy like me to understand what you are saying when your writing is comprised entirely of Subjective phraseology.

@joyously

Thanks.

Never mind. I did by using the custom plugin method.

So, which Text do you like.

“Suggest an Edit to this Page”

or

“Help Improve this Page”

or something else? I really want to encourage viewers to contribute their knowledge.

@joyously Thanks.

Now I am trying to change the “Leave a Reply” to something else like, “Help Improve This page” or “Suggest an Edit”. I am using the Vantage theme. I tried following this tutorial, but it must be for a different theme, because the options it list are not available. https://www.sertmedia.com/change-the-leave-a-reply-text/

@otto42 Figured it out. I had “Discussions” unchecked under “Screen Options”, so it was not showing up. Thanks

Okay. The option to enable comments is no available on POST. It is available only on Pages.

Take this post for example. I cannot find a way to enable comments on this post.

https://thejungleexplorer.com/texas-yellow-sneezeweed

But I can enable comments on this page:

https://thejungleexplorer.com/texas-spiderwort-flower-tradescantia-humilis-rose

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by victorb70.

I do have comments on, but it shows up at the bottom of the page, and it says “Leave a Reply”. I can find no way to change “Leave a Reply” to anything else.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by victorb70.

Wow! Been doing some searching on how to change the “Leave a Reply” thing. Something so simple is way overly complex in WP. Why is WP so hard to use? It’s like whoever write the code for WP has lost all touch with normalcy and reality. To change a simple line of text take a page of coding, if it is even possible. Good grief! Just forget it. It is too much trouble.

BTW I am using the VANTAGE theme

@advancedblog2017

Thanks, man! That worked great. Can you tell me if there is a way to edit the title? Right now it says “Leave a reply”. I would like it to say, “Have a Suggestion to improve this page? Post it here for consideration!” Or something like that.

Thanks @jnashhawkins. I don’t know why I did not think of that. Just copy and paste the html. So simple.

It would still be great of wordpress add a “Save As” function (or Publish As New Post/Page). It’s not like this function has not been a part of basic computing since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by victorb70.

Not even sure what Reverse Chronological Lists are or why I would need them, but thanks for the info.

Thanks

Thanks for the help, but both of these options messed up the in formation displayed in right side bar.

I am not sure, but it seems like the theme is failing to adjust in accordance with the screen size. I am currently working on 24 inch monitor. On this monitor, the right side bar is actually as wide the main page the main page. If I increase the primary page width to 83.287% it slams the ad bar in the right sidebar up against the vertical divider line, which looks bad. If I go over 83.287% it actually pushes all the information in the right sidebar out the bottom, even though there is a good six inches of blank space for it to move over to the right. What is confusing is that on my 24″ screen there is a good six inches of blank white space on both the right and left side, but the overall width of the page refuses expand to fit the screen size and just takes up about 60% of the total screen real estate in the middle of the screen

It is just a guess, but I think the content management system of the theme is not adjusting the size of the page correctly when it encounters a larger desktop screen. Again that is just a guess.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by victorb70.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by victorb70.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by victorb70.

I have create a visual example of what I am after. It is not functional, but it looks like what I am trying to achieve. The function that it is missing is that the thumbnails are not active. What I want is the ability to make it so that when any of the thumbnails from carousel are clicked on, it changes the image and texted below the carousel.

Here is the sample page. This is what I want it to look like.

https://thejungleexplorer.com/texas-indian-feather-flower