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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Hi David - how to upgrade to latest version
Hi David,
Happy new year!
There has been another bug in the theme where widgets wont save and also menus wont save after changes are made. I had to turn off stallion and activate 2012 theme and make changes and then re activete stallion… dont know if you fixed those bugs ???
Now… up grading to new version
Do i simply overwrite the main stallion or main stallion and child theme??
Look forward to your quick reply as i need to make some changes on my site in the menu and widgest areas
Hi David - how to upgrade to latest version
WordPress Widgets not Saving
Widgets/menus not saving is unlikely to be a Stallion Responsive bug (no other reports).
Search Google for
WordPress widgets not saving
and you’ll see it’s not uncommon.
Could be a recent plugin, your browser playing up (javascript issues), PC needs restarting…. Also see: https://stallion-theme.co.uk/wordpress-theme-widgets/comment-page-4/#comment-47250
To update go to the WordPress updates page under your Dashboard and the update should be there. The child theme hasn’t been updated recently, so won’t need an update, if it did it’s manual using FTP taking into account if you’ve made customization.
David
WordPress Widgets not Saving
PHP 7 compatible?
Is Stallion Responsive 8.3 Update compatible with PHP 7?
PHP 7 WordPress Theme Compatibility
I don’t have a server running PHP 7 yet, so can’t be sure. Got to find the time to setup a Wamp server or XAMPP server running PHP 7 for testing.
WordPress core has been testing under the PHP 7 environment and because of this has deprecated some PHP 4 code recently: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/02/deprecating-php4-style-constructors-in-wordpress-4-3/
In the Stallion Responsive 8.3 update I updated the relevant code to the PHP 7 compatible code so it should be PHP 7 compatible.
If anyone is running under PHP 7 would be helpful to have some feedback.
David
Update: Stallion Responsive 8.3 and 8.4 is PHP 7 compatible, but had some notices related to PHP 4 code (these are PHP notices, NOT errors) that PHP intends to deprecate in the future (could be deprecated in PHP 7.1 or 7.2 or….). Stallion Responsive 8.5 removed the PHP notices as well, see: PHP 7 Deprecated Constructor Error Notice.
PHP 7 WordPress Theme Compatibility
Moving my web site
I absolutely love using Stallion Responsive on my sites. However I have an new administrator for one of my sites and want this person to be able to receive all Stallion Responsive updates as well as access to technical support if necessary.
So, my question is, how can I change or add, his email address to receive updates as needed?
This is quite important to me so I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Thanks
Susanne
Moving my web site
Stallion Responsive Email Updates
Regarding technical support it’s always via comments on this site unless the information can’t be made public: if it has to be private support there’s contact details on the main Stallion options page (I ignore support requests sent by email that could be dealt with here).
I don’t check who is asking for tech support, so anyone using/testing Stallion Responsive can ask for support via the comments.
Regarding Stallion Responsive updates, even though it’s a premium theme, it includes a built in update like what you get with WordPress themes from the free WordPress Theme Repository. When an updated version is released whoever has access to the WordPress updates page (under your WordPress dashboard) can see there’s an update available and click the update link which automatically updates the site.
Also anyone can download the latest zip files from https://stallion-theme.co.uk/stallion-responsive-theme/
When I make an update I post some info on the mailing list and make a copy as a comment on the Stallion Responsive Mailing List Page.
So to be sent email updates there’s two options.
Sign up for the actual mailing list.
Subscribe to the comments on the mailing list page linked above: to do this click the Subscribe link at the bottom of the comments form on the mailing list page above.
David
Stallion Responsive Email Updates
300000 pages + categories getting some trafic but not dep spider want to silo for profit
Hi dave is the an auto silo feature for existing granular category structure?
Basically can I install and silo automatically, let me know. PM me i will send url
cheers,Lee
Silo SEO Using WordPress Categories
If it’s a website with thousands of WordPress posts rather than pages (static pages), spread over a fair number categories based on theme (the categories are the silos) then the Stallion Responsive built in silo SEO features will work REALLY well. Great for big sites.
This site of mine http://www.free-recipe.co.uk/ has over 100,000 WordPress posts spread over quite a lot of categories. No way I could build manual silos for so much content.
Created one Stallion widget which took less than a minute and it was automatically siloed. Entire site silo SEO’d in a minute.
Randomly view posts and categories and compare the Popular Posts widget as you change content.
The Popular Posts widget is set to show posts only from the categories the posts are in. I used similar settings for this site with the Popular Articles widget.
Means your widgets can be better targeted to the content they are linking to/from. That’s what Silo SEO is.
David
Silo SEO Using WordPress Categories
Indexed pages
thanks for reply,I took a look at your site mentioned (recipe one) done a site: search to check how many pages indexed, only 30,000. Thats the same issue im getting with is 300,000 post site. was hoping the siloing would help with indexation. But I guess this is down to DA authority ?
Hard to Get a Large Site Fully Indexed in Google
It used to be a lot easier to get large sites fully indexed in Google, but now it takes a lot more SEO effort: basically more high quality backlinks.
The recipe site was partially automated, used some recipe databases to pull the recipes from and import them into WordPress. Not worked on backlinks to that site for years, so wouldn’t expect it to be any where near fully indexed.
Means the content isn’t unique, that’s a full indexing issue.
Also there’s a lot of title tags that are very similar like Chicken Recipe 1, Chicken Recipe 2, Chicken Recipe 3… which is also an indexing issue.
A well thought out silo SEO link structure per se won’t increase a sites indexing. What it does is better target the anchor text of internal linking which if a page on a site is indexed will suggest to Google it should be ranked for phrases related to the anchor text to/from the page.
Silo SEO will make indexing of some parts of a site better and others worse. Take this site, a majority of the content has an SEO niche to it, but there’s a small amount covering product reviews.
For example I have a post about Direct Line Car Insurance, if the linking structure was evenly shared internal links to all posts, the insurance post would have as much link benefit sent to it as the post that starts the SEO tutorial. That means the insurance post is as likely to be indexed as the SEO tutorial post.
With my current silo SEO linking structure, because I don’t have many product review relevant posts the insurance post will have significantly fewer internal links than the SEO tutorial post. So the insurance post is less likely to be indexed relative to the SEO tutorial post.
With 300,000 webpages it’s almost impossible to fairly link to every webpage, you have to prioritize.
I assume the most commented posts are the ones with most traffic, so my silo SEO widget is going to pass more link benefit to the parts of the site with the most comments and in niches with most content (on this site the SEO niche). On top of this I add manual links to really important content, you can see my navigation menu below the header, it’s sitewide and links to the most important parts of the site.
With a 300,000 webpage site you should work on backlinks to important parts of the site not just the homepage. If this were a huge site I’d work directly on backlinks to the SEO tutorial sections and the Stallion Responsive theme sales pages. On the recipe site I’d work on backlinks to important categories, so if there was a lot of traffic to chicken recipes I’d gain backlinks to those categories.
With huge sites you have to work on them like you are indexing multiple domains, you will need the backlinks equivalent to dozens of smaller sites to get most of it indexed.
BTW I don’t use DA Authority, it’s a measure created by Moz and has no more value to me than a guess.
David
Hard to Get a Large Site Fully Indexed in Google
Customer Service Question
I currently have Stallion SEO Ad Theme running. Is there any advantage to switching to Stallion WP SEO 8.3.1?
Have recently updated Ad theme to 6.0.1
Thanks
Stallion 6 vs Stallion Responsive 8
Stallion version 6 is way out of date and lacks mobile responsive design which is now part of the Googles algorythm.
Stallion Responsive version 8 includes a lot of new features (including mobile responsive design), so you are missing out on a lot of features. You can read about some of the updates at https://stallion-theme.co.uk/mailing-list/
David
Stallion 6 vs Stallion Responsive 8