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Just to follow up, I got an email from Google confirming that the breadcrumbs issue was resolved. Thanks again for your help, Anita!
Thank you! The "Inspect URL" says the page is fine now. Looks like turning off TSF fixed the problem.
If you're passing the TSF conflict onto the developers, you might want to note that I could never get it to display on normal pages. The instructions say "Breadcrumb trails indicate page positions in the site's hierarchy. Using the following option will show the hierarchy within the search results when available." I take that to mean only searchers see the breadcrumbs from TSF. So just because you're not seeing TSF breadcrumbs on the page doesn't mean they're not activated and being shown to some users.
No Yoast - I'm currently using The SEO Framework. I always update Genesis within a few days of a new version coming out, so that's not it either.
When I got the error, I did have breadcrumbs enabled in both Genesis and The SEO Framework. Genesis shows them on every page, but TSF only shows them on search result pages or something (I can never get them to display). So it's possible the problem was with TSF's code and not Genesis'. I have turned off breadcrumbs in TSF since getting the error notice from Google and asked Google to validate my fix. But that could take weeks, and until then... does anybody actually know what Google is looking for? If so, we should be able to look at my source code and know if it's giving them what they want now or not.
I've sent you the text of it through your contact form. There was no way to just forward the original email, but it's one of those typical Search Console emails alerting you about an error or warning. Thanks in advance!
I'm not the OP, but here is mine: https://mixthatdrink.com/love-bite/. Loads of Genesis users are getting these emails from Google. But according to this article, https://wptavern.com/google-search-console-adds-breadcrumbs-report-sends-out-warnings-for-structured-data-errors, it sounds like Yoast and a number of plugins that display breadcrumbs are also getting the error. I'm wondering if Google has just suddenly come up with a new bit of code they want people to include, and rather than send us a memo, they sent a bunch of error messages without enough detail for the average webmaster to know what to do.
Thank you, Victor! I'm seeing the same line of code for the before and after, but I think that's just a forum code display issue. I'm guessing you meant to comment that line out with a double slash? In any case, that's what worked for me! Thank you.
PTTurboe, the Mobile Friendly test is the one that counts. If you're passing it, you WILL be considered mobile friendly and your rankings will be fine. Webmaster Tools can take weeks to update its results. I got all my pages passing the mobile friendly test a week or two ago, and Webmaster Tools has just now reduced the number of pages it says are a problem. Eventually they'll all go away, but Google doesn't check everything immediately. So don't worry about that.
Also, if you're in WMT and use it to see what's "wrong' with your pages, it uses the PageSpeed tool, which is very nit-picky and tells you every single thing you could possibly improve. You don't have to get "perfect" in it to keep your rankings high.
Thanks, Dave, I found a Facebook group for Genesis, and someone there found the final steps. Which I'll post on the off-chance anyone else is having the same fun:
First, he had me add this, which is along the lines you were thinking:
body { -ms-word-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; }It made the long links stop being an issue, but I was still getting "fails". So he looked at my robots.txt and advised me to take out some blocking lines, which I won't repeat here because chances are no one else had those lines... there are infinite mistakes one can make with robots.txt, so clearly I need to sharpen my understanding of how it all works.
And that did it! Now every page is passing.
Dave, I think that first one helped... sort of. I still have to go through and manually change any links people have just copied and pasted into linked text, but at least now that is having an effect. It wasn't earlier!
So now I will have to manually fix it every time my commenters leave a link. 🙁
Hi Dave, thanks for checking it out, and for the kind words. But most pages are still showing as not mobile-friendly, like this for example. And I empty Super-Cache completely every time I make a change, before testing.
I've done a lot of work on this today, and learned some really bizarre stuff:
--Google is NOT okay with how News Pro does the entry meta footer, with the categories and tags. Had to enlarge those fonts in mobile view.
--Google is NOT okay with how close a commenter's name is to the comment time link. Had to add padding there.And for the grand finale of weird, guess what's "wider than screen"? You know how in comments, people can link to their websites? So what you see on the screen may be "Jim" but Jim links to "http://sitenamehere.blogspot.com" or whatever? Well, if "http://sitenamehere.blogspot.com" is wider than a phone screen, as most links are, then your site won't rank as mobile-friendly. Even though the link isn't actually what's visible on screen.
I personally think Google has lost their tiny minds, but again, I cannot afford to ignore them. A drop in rank means a drop in income for me. I don't know what to do, except remove the option to link to your site in comments, and I prefer not to do that... but it may be my only choice. 🙁
Never mind. Mods, you can delete this. I figured out a couple of things, but either Google's tool is caching stuff so that you can't really test your changes, or it just doesn't work consistently.
Thank you! That wasn't quite it, but got me on the right track. There is no "text-21" in the stylesheet, so I looked again in Firebug and saw that it's actually ".widget" that had the 3.2rem. I have no idea why the simple "leaderboard" class I created also invokes several sub-classes and divs - I guess Genesis does that automatically for reasons I might understand if I really knew anything about making CSS and php work together, LOL.
Anyhow, I changed that 3.2rem to 0 and nothing else seemed to move around from it. There is still a gap coming from somewhere, but it needs some whitespace there and I like how it looks. Thanks again.
Just responding to set up notifications. I'm having similar issues. When you remove a media query to go to full size on certain devices, it screws up volume alignments and so on. The newer themes are strictly designed to work with responsive enabled on tablets and phones, which is not how any site I know of does it, nor is it desirable to anyone I know who regularly uses an iPad.
Okay, I finally found some code that works. Don't know if it's the most compliant, but I gave up on my "leaderboard" div, and wrapped this around the ad code.
<div align="center" style="width:100%; padding:5px;">
It looks perfect. I believe align=center is deprecated, so if anyone knows a more compliant method, I'd love to learn it.
PS - the first "leaderboard" method in my first post worked just fine on another site done in Quattro, so maybe this is an HTML5 issue...but if so, it seems weird that a deprecated code would work better in HTML5!
Well, the problem with switching to functions is that I don't understand how to write them, can't find a basic guide on how to learn, and despite teaching myself HTML, CSS, a good portion of PHP, etc., I just tend to blow up the site when I try, so I'd need someone to help me write functions for everything that's in those plugins. If you can point me to some documentation on them, I'd appreciate it. But I've looked, and I have a feeling it's like php - totally undocumented, and what works on one site may not work on another, and it can be impossible to determine why.
Anyhow, here's the Gist link: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f61efaae9850175ab44e
Thanks for asking! I guess you can call this resolved... more of a workaround, which I'll share in case others are running into similar issues. The coder made some changes, and then the button would show up but only in a few hooks (using Simple Hooks to display the code). So I was not able to place it as ideally as I had been in my previous non-Genesis theme, but it's okay.
I've had some other issues with Simple Hooks not working consistently, but I actually suspect that Simple Edits is the culprit as I've observed it totally overriding any other code in some cases. This is not necessarily something "wrong", just something I've learned I have to be aware of when using SE.
Sorry, Anitac, somehow this got lost in the wilds of my email and the holidays. Yeah, I am seeing now that some ads comply and others don't, but there are generally ways around it via the responsive design. By the way, I ended up buying the whole enchilada membership (okay, not what StudioPress calls it, LOL), and I'm pleased with it! Thanks for your response!