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410 Gone WordPress Mod Tutorial

04/25/2023 FidoSysop

I’ve made a few changes around here which is why this notification is auto-generated. Doc’s political archives have been moved to this subdomain , which is a more suitable place for them. Some other old stuff was removed as well. This created a HUGE SEO problem as there were thousands of URLs that were displaying the standard HTTP 404 page not found status code. This is a big SEO no-no as search engines will crawl those not found URLs (dead links) practically forever checking if they are back available. To…

Yoast SEO Version 7 Removes Manual Sitemap Toggle

03/22/2018 FidoSysop

Github Yoast SEO V7 Ticket 9317 Archive Sitemap

Yoast SEO Version 7 removes manual sitemap toggle. As an advanced WordPress blogger selecting what sitemaps were generated was a big plus for me. Yoast’s WordPress Version 7 is hyped to be cleaner lightweight code with unneeded features removed. Meta keywords was an unneeded feature that many folks probably didn’t use, I agree with that removal. But in my personal opinion removing sitemap display configuration was not the proper thing to do. The change was to a simple yes / no option in V7 search appearance menu. In other words,…