Most of this website is dedicated to supporting the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Package I develop. You’ll find various Stallion Responsive Tutorials and plenty of references to how Stallion works throughout articles within this website even when the articles aren’t specifically about the Stallion SEO package: examples include the general SEO Tutorial Series and the WordPress SEO Tutorial Series. Over the years I’ve offered a lot of free tech support for WordPress users and it can get frustrating when asked the same question that is answered and just a couple of clicks away from the visitor. You will find a simple list of all main articles on this website within the Sitemap, the sitemap is categorized so easy to find […]
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WordPress Blog Broken!
Hi David,
Please check my blog url here: (deleted)
Why there is empty content on the left sidebar happened in the homepage and also the search box is displayed out of the header image? But when I click continue reading to any of the posts there was normal content on the left sidebar and also the right place of search box at the right corner within header image. It’s strange. I just saw it today and before all everything was okay without these troubles.
Await your response.
Roy
WordPress Blog Broken!
Use the W3C Validator to Track Down Code Errors
Looks like a code error, could be anything from one of your custom widgets is broken to one or more posts have broken code.
Use the W3C Validator http://validator.w3.org/ to track down the code errors. Had a quick look and the last error about the end div would cause this sort of problem.
Looks like this post is the issue (deleted)
BTW your head section is a mess, what’s with all the useless meta tags? All the ones you’ve added are a complete waste of time.
David
Use the W3C Validator to Track Down Code Errors
WordPress Blog Error Fix
Hi David,
I have just found the cause of a mess on the homepage of my blog . I crosschecked to one post made by automatic blog software here 2 days ago as it was an empty content, then I checked it by viewing this one post and it’s true that this post caused a mess on viewing the layout of Stallion theme so I directly deleted it and after that I tried to running my blog again then I get the good view of my Stallion theme blog.
After that I just tried to track down my blog url at http://validator.w3.org/ and there was still mentioned 50 errors in my blog but I don’t care it because my blog has runned Stallion theme as well and I know that the validator site is might too sensitive to track any code of sites so that they mentioned whatever they thought those things as errors whereas not, which means we couldn’t believe fully to what stated by the validator site like that. I think all sites or blog if tracked down by this url will always be found errors, you or anyone can try it yourself.
And I know that the cause of a mess in my homepage blog was really not caused by the meta tags codes I’ve added into the header.php file, because after I removed them the mess on the homepage of my blog still happened. And after I deleted one empty content post as I tell above, everything can work fine again is that at the view on my homepage blog. You can see my other blog using my local language here at ss example which I have also added some meta tags in the header.php file where you said that it’s complete waste of time but you can see that the Stallion theme can work fine in that blog without any mess.
It seemed an empty content of post will be able to mess the Stallion theme view at some of blog pages. I just know and am aware of this thing today through my blog, before all I was not.
Roy
WordPress Blog Error Fix
Free Tech Support is NOT a Right, Do Not Abuse It
Firstly don’t SPAM my website with comments about the same issue over and over again (have deleted the other comments) with a “you must fix my blog NOW, it’s your fault” tone.
Do not appreciate waking up to my sites code messed up with ill thought out comments. Never post comments like those again, if you want someone to look at the W3C Validator results post a link to the results page, don’t paste the entire code with hundreds of lines as a comment TWICE!!!
You did this sort of thing before by email, this is your final warning (I warned you by email last time about having patience: this is FREE tech support), do it again you’ll receive no more support.
Secondly had you read my first response correctly you would have realised this was NOT a Stallion code issue, but an issue with one of your posts (I linked to it!). So despite this not being a Stallion support issue I gave you the answer of how to solve the problem. That post wasn’t empty, if you had edited it you’ve have found an entire post, but there was broken code within it. When a post has broken code it can break the site. That’s not a theme issue, it’s a poorly constructed post issue (common problem with scraped content using autoblog software).
Thirdly had you read the BTW part of the comment correctly you’d have realised the meta tags information had nothing whatsoever to do with your code errors, I was giving you some free additional SEO advice because you are making a mistake adding a bunch of worthless meta tags. It’s up to you whether you take the free SEO advice or not.
BTW Many sites do have W3C Validator errors, most errors cause no major problems, you use the tool to track down the ones that cause problems. Stallion out the box has no validator errors, the FaceBook code that can be turned on causes validator errors.
David
Free Tech Support is NOT a Right, Do Not Abuse It
Tech Support
Ok, no other comment again! BTW I didn’t have any purpose to spam your site whatsoever but I was just pretty confused to having those issues where before all everything went fine. No people in this eaarth are pretty perfect without ever making mistake except the God. Sorry.
Roy
Broken Website Layout
Hi Dave:
Somehow my search box and navigation bars got off-set, so I did a quick fix and disabled the search box and moved it to a widget on the right sidebar.
I removed the last five posts, thinking one of them may have triggered it, checking the site after each removal, however, the “issue” still remained … and thus, I performed the quick fix and restored the posts.
Anyways, the navigation bars have shifted from the normal right-align position to a more centered position, and part of the search box was displayed past the header image.
I don’t mind how it looks right now since the search box is displayed on a sidebar widget. However, if it will cause issues down the road, I’m all ears if you have any fixes/comments.
Thanks,
Glenn
Broken Website Layout
Code Errors Cause Website Layout Problems
Sounds like a code error, use the W3C Validator http://validator.w3.org/ to track down the code errors. Depending on your site you might have a lot of errors that don’t really cause serious problems, start looking for errors about closing /div> in particular.
Also see the comment above, if you are using an autoblog plugin you’ve probably scraped an article or something with broken code within it. If you have a post with just one extra closing /div> within it, it will break the layout of lots of WordPress themes.
Easiest way to track a bad post down is load them one at a time and see if they have the messed up layout, if they don’t that post is OK, if they do you’ve found the culprit. If all your posts are ‘broken’ it’s probably not a post, look at your plugins.
David
Code Errors Cause Website Layout Problems
WordPress Continue Reading
David,
I just setup a new site in conjunction with MPP and my articles will not post the “continue reading”?
I’ve gone over this a number of times trying to figure out if I’ve set this site up differently than all my others and my conclusion is it’s exactly the same as the others. Except for this… the site admin shows no plugins installed and the network admin shows all the plugins installed.
Do you have any idea how I can get the “continue reading” working for my articles?
Thanks,
Randy
WordPress Continue Reading
WordPress Plugin Post Teaser Settings
Looks like you are using the Post Teaser plugin and either you’ve set the excerpt number too high or your posts are all too low in number of words to show the Continue Reading link (or both).
The default Post Teaser settings are to not show a continue reading link if the entire post is shown (small posts).
If you want the link no matter what and you are using my SEO version from WordPress SEO Plugins edit the Post Teaser settings and copy the content of the first text area (with text above “If the post is made into a teaser, I want the message to be in the following format:”) into the third text box (with text above “If the post is displayed in full, I want the message to be in the following format:”) and click the Update Options button.
The continue reading links will be shown for all posts.
David
WordPress Plugin Post Teaser Settings
WordPress Header Error
Why my template show error on its header?
See the header.
WordPress RSS Feed Error
Seen this issue a few times, it’s caused by something ‘breaking’ your RSS feed, most likely a WordPress plugin.
The WordPress RSS feed is supposed to not show rich content (images etc…), meant to be just text. If you are running a plugin that adds rich content to the RSS feed it clashes with a Stallion feature that uses the WordPress rss excerpt for the meta description tag.
You have two choices.
Track down what’s adding rich content to your RSS feed and stop it.
Or disable the Stallion feature.
The Stallion feature is the automated meta description and meta keywords tag(s). Under the Stallion SEO Advanced options page tick:
Automated Meta Description Tag OFF
Automated Meta Keywords OFF
This will turn of the automated meta tags.
The keywords meta tag has no SEO value, only have it in the Stallion theme because users expect it. I have it turned off on all my sites.
The description meta tag has value if you write ad like descriptions. On each post you can write an excerpt, if you write an excerpt it will be used as the meta description tag otherwise the first X number of characters from a post will be used (automated, highly unlikely to generate a higher click through rate (CTR)).
The meta description tag has no SEO ranking value (won’t increase Google rankings), but might result in a higher CTR from Google IF it’s a compelling read.
Personally I don’t have the time to write descriptions and I’m not very good at writing ads, so I turn this Stallion feature off and let Google choose the description from the body text.
I see you are using the All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin, plugins like that give you more control over the meta description. Take a read of WordPress All in One SEO Plugin Review you are making a big error using nofollow on your categories. If you want to not index parts of a site without using nofollow see the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin.
David
WordPress RSS Feed Error
Shopping Cart Integration
Would be very useful if some shopping cart integration was made.
Ecommerce WordPress Shopping Plugins
There are dedicated ecommerce WordPress shopping plugins, but I’ve not had a reason to seriously look at them as I don’t sell products that require a shopping cart.
If I do find the time to take a look it would probably be either incorporating relevant features into Stallion to support an ecommerce plugin (along the lines of fixing SEO issues) or import the plugin into Stallion (probably the former as they tend to be complicated plugins).
WordPress shopping features are not high on my list of priorities for new theme features at this time.
David
Ecommerce WordPress Shopping Plugins
Google Chrome This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it
Check the rss widget in the Chrome browser, as it gives me a:
“This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.”
When I try to subscribe.
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it
The “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.” notice is normal for Google Chrome.
It’s just a notice there’s no styling which is the default for WordPress RSS feeds. The Stallion theme doesn’t deliberately (stating that in case I missed something :-)) change the RSS feeds.
If you install TwentyEleven and check an RSS feed you’ll find the same “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.” notice in Google Chrome.
Load a ‘plain’ RSS feed in
Firefox and the browser adds it’s own styling.
Internet Explorer and the browser adds it’s own styling that’s different to Firefox.
Safari and the browser adds it’s own styling that’s different to Firefox and IE.
Opera and the browser adds it’s own styling that’s different to Safari, Firefox and IE.
No idea why Google Chrome is the only browser that lacks it’s own RSS feed styling? Not looked into if there’s a way to add styling at theme or plugin level. With Google Chrome a major browser player probably worth looking into since currently it’s showing the raw XML data which means links aren’t clickable etc…
Edit: you can check an RSS feed for errors at sites like http://feedvalidator.org
David
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it