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Thanks @braddalton. I just checked the plugin, but it doesn't list Yoast in the list of compatible SEO plugins. Honestly, I might just ditch Yoast and stick with Genesis SEO. I wast just trying to find a solution for the duplicate content image attachment pages issue. But if it's going to be a hassle like this, I'll just leave them. I can't believe Google is going to penalize sites for WP image attachment pages. All WP sites have them and I doubt most site owners are going to go through the trouble of trying to 301 redirect all of those to the parent post.

What would you do? Or better asked, what do you do to deal with this issue?

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^Thanks sir. 🙂

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Is there any easy way of transferring the settings that were put in Genesis over to Yoast. When I installed Yoast, all my meta descriptions that where in Genesis are now all hidden and I can't copy them out. At least not without turning off Yoast.

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@braddalton - I just installed Yoast the other day... and the only reason was because I started using SEOMoz and it picked up that I had duplicate content because of image attachment pages. Yoast offers the option to redirect those image attachment pages to the parent post. The other option was to avoid getting duplicate content from comment pages.

Is there any way of dealing with attachment page duplicate content problems using robots.txt or Genesis so as to avoid using Yoast. Yoast hid all my Genesis SEO options and in the process hid all the meta info I had for posts.

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On a slightly different note... I thought I'd ask here given it is slightly related. I just installed Yoast SEO and I noticed all the Genesis SEO options got turned off. I suppose that's the way it works right? Unfortunately, it also hid all me previously added meta descriptions in the process, so now I can't even copy them over to the Yoast all that easily.

Any tips? I only installed Yoast to use the feature of redirecting image attachment pages to the parent post to avoid duplicate content. Wish Genesis had that feature integrated.

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Anybody feeling helpful?

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I suppose the code needed for those two boxes would be similar to that of the eNews widget. Right now I'm using this code to register the eNews email sign up widget and display it:

//** Register newsletter signup widget area for the after post content form */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'newsletter',
'name' => __( 'Newsletter After Post', 'custom-theme' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the newsletter section.', 'custom-theme' ),
) );

/** Display newsletter signup widget after the post content */
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
if ( is_singular( 'post', 'quickblog' ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
'before' => '',
) );
}

And for styling it I'm using this:

/* Search Form / eNews and Update Widget
------------------------------------------------------------ */

.enews-widget {
background-color: #333333;
line-height: 1.5;
margin: 11px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 2.5rem 3rem 3rem;
}

.enews #subbox, #subbox1, #subbox2, .s {
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #ccc inset;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #ccc inset;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
box-shadow: 0 0 5px #ccc inset;
box-sizing: border-box;
color: #999;
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.5;
padding: 15px;
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 50%;
}

#nav .searchform {
margin: 3px 0 0;
}

.enews .searchsubmit {
display: none;
}

.enews p {
margin: 0 0 10px;
color: #ffffff;
}

.enews h4 {
margin: 0 0 10px;
color: #CAAD23;
}

-----------------------------

Now, using those 2 snippets as samples, how do I create my 2 side by side 336px widgets after the content, but before the signup form, and style them to sit side by side?

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^^^ That's pretty darn clever.

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Hi @braddalton - I ended up installing the carousel without Jetpack plugin. I also found that if I set the WP native thumbnails to the same size as the Minimum thumbnails (330px), the size appears available in my posts. Making the galleries 2 columns with 330px looks pretty good with my layout.

Here's a good example: http://rallyways.com/2288/retrobuilt-1969-shelby-gt500-cs-hides-2013-shelby-gt500/

I'll run that for now, and maybe do a little CSS for a bit of tweaking, but so far I like it. Thanks.

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^^^ Is that really that bad? I hear people complain about this all the time, but I feel it's in the wrong context. People always complain about it saying that it increases their server space usage. While that is a valid point, server space is relatively cheap, I'm more concerned about the growth of the the database over time slowing the site down. WordPress keeps a tab on all those little images. Do you think this is something to worry about?

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I'm testing the one without Jetpack right now - which uses the same module from the Automattic version. I like how it displays on the computer. On the iPhone, it looks good, unfortunately it's not intuitive to tell the user to swipe for the next image, as there are no arrows or anything.

Also, this only solves the mobile responsive display problem. But, the way the native gallery displays in my posts is still subpar. What controls the size of the thumbnails in the gallery? Is it the thumbnail size settings? CSS? I wish I had more control over how the gallery itself looks in my post.

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Hi @braddalton - Do you use it on any of your sites? Any good examples?

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This might have been too many topics for one post. Dang not knowing enough PHP! O.o 🙁

About the banner ad.

I added your code for the banner ad...

function wpsites_after_single_post_banner() {
if ( is_single() ) {
echo '<div class="afterpost-ads"> Add Your Google Banner Code here</div>';
}};
add_action('genesis_after_post_content', 'wpsites_after_single_post_banner');

and it works, but I'm turning it off for a bit to tweak it. I only want the add on "posts", "quickblog" With this code it's even showing in portfolio pages.

Also, why can't I use the same hook as I'm using for the subscribe form? It displays fine, in the order that they are on functions.php. I mean, I need to add a bit of CSS to add some padding and what not around the ad, but that's about it. I got it to display between the Subscribe box and the author box. (I'm turning it off for a bit until I find a solution to have it display only on posts and quickblog.

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Hi Brad,

I'm using this:

add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
if ( is_singular( 'post', 'quickblog' ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
'before' => '<div id="enews widget-area">',
) );

I tried changing is_singular to is_single and it breaks. Making that change will not display the form anywhere. It even disappears from the native posts.

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@braddalton - I used the plugin, Easy Custom Content Types by Pippin's Plugins to create all 3 of the custom types, and one custom taxonomy. It really is a great plugin. I had considered custom post types for a long time, but never found a good solution that I could use on my own until I found this plugin. Someone recommend it on here.

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@braddalton - No, I havent. Remember, I don't code from scratch. I put pieces together to make it all work. I'm a designer, not a coder :s So, I understand what that means, but wouldn't know exactly where to put it unless I can see the rest of the code that somewhat should go around it.

For example, to tackle that, I would go into the functions.php and other other functions files and try to find similar code to what I'm trying to do. Then see how I can stick that line of code were I need it by duplicating something. Then, by trial and error I get it sorted.

I know, it's messy and it takes forever, but I don't know how to code. 🙁

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@kraft- no worries man. When you have time.

@braddalton - I'll try that I report back. Thanks.

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^^^ Thanks Dave

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^^^ You will lose subscribers no matter what. But you could write a blog post asking your RSS subscribers to subscribe by email.

I tried setting up Aweber to distribute RSS. But 1. Their templates suck and look awful - specially their blog broadcast ones. 2. I went ahead to attempt and modify their best looking template to look better (pure type, I think). The big problem came when I found out they don't have a "save draft" feature. Saving at any points assumes you are done and basically creates a crapload of blog-broadcasts waiting in the queue for you to send. How STUPID is that?

I even emailed them about it and they admitted to only have a "save draft" for regular campaigns and not for blog broadcasts.

So, I proceeded to erase all those incomplete blog broadcasts, one by one mind you because they don't have a bulk delete feature. Then, I started all over again realizing I couldn't save until I was done. But that also meant I couldn't easily test. Next thing you know, their interface freezes and I lose my work.

So, patiently, I started all over again. Again, it froze and I lost my work. 5 hours had past, it was midnight and my entire night was a wash. I wanted to ram the computer through the wall. So, I decided SCREW AWEBER, and I'm now in the process of migrating to Mailchimp.

 

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Hi David, thanks for the insight. That's what I did actually. I went into the old styles file from the old Thesis site I had and brought a couple of class styles that I like and pasted them into my Minimum Child Theme styles. They were a little different, as they read like this:
.format_text p.alert { background: #ffffa0; border: 1px solid #e5e597; }

But I found that it didn't work in that format.

So I simplified it to:

.alert { background: #ffffa0; border: 1px solid #e5e597; }

And I found that worked just fine when used with <p class="alert">

Not sure why, because my forte is not CSS, but it works.

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