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Gotcha, are you able to make inline html style changes?
Quick and simple would be:
HTML Inline:
<h1 class="archive-title summer-rain">Summer Rain</h1>CSS:
.summer-rain { color:red; }you could obviously add the link styling yourself. Just tried it and it took care of changing that specific archive title color.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comsorry but your site isn't loading for me to check. http://wsh.mompreneurmedia.com/ let me know when it is back up and I can take a look for ya.
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RobertMcMillin.comAlso, can add this code and that worked for me to change the archive title...
h1.archive-title { border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; border-top: 1px solid #ddd; color: #0036ff; }obviously change the "color" to what color you want.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comHello
at line 842 in your CSS is your archive-title css.
.archive-title { border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; border-top: 1px solid #ddd; color: #4e5e96; }change this code to change the archive title. You can also create a custom class as well to accomplish what you are looking for and use it to style a specific selector. Are you using "customize" in wordpress or editing it directly in the style sheet?
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RobertMcMillin.comWhat color do you want it? Use opacity. That is more helpful probably for your situation. I don't know what it looked like before but you have a black background color, and a greenish gray one. Both under .site-header in two different areas of your CSS. Which color do you want to show through? Transparent means see-through (I know you know this) but it is only going to see through to the color underneath. If there is none, it will be white.
ex. `.site-header {
opacity: 0.5}
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comOk, I think this might point you in the right direction, it's a quick fix, so it's not perfect. Seems like that white space is bothering you a lot though 🙂
I was looking and it is all inline css styling so there is a line of code in here you can add to get the result you want. You should play with other percentages and ways of sizing elements (here's a guide on some different ways to size elements with css https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size#Rems)
The line you need to add is:
margin-bottom: -9%;<div data-thumb="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1-180x180.jpg" class="woocommerce-product-gallery__image flex-active-slide" data-thumb-alt="" style="float: left;clear: both;width: 346px;min-height: 346px;/* max-height: 1px; */margin-bottom: -9%;"><-----worked for me on a cursory glance.
The overall code for that div is below:
<div data-thumb="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1-180x180.jpg" class="woocommerce-product-gallery__image flex-active-slide" data-thumb-alt="" style="float: left;clear: both;width: 346px;min-height: 346px;/* max-height: 1px; */margin-bottom: -9%;"><a href="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1.jpg"><img width="596" height="566" src="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1.jpg" class="attachment-shop_single size-shop_single wp-post-image" alt="Passiflora Edulis Alba" title="" data-src="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1.jpg" data-large_image="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1.jpg" data-large_image_width="596" data-large_image_height="566" srcset="http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1.jpg 596w, http://www.passionflowervine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alba-1-300x285.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px" draggable="false"></a></div>
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comI would honestly, just try it out before spending any money, see if it works for you. If you'll be writing posts or updating pages with new content, the tools inside the post/page editor are great for SEO. Also, you can edit how your content will appear in search results, like Google.
On top of this, Yoast has a great reputation and consistently updates their plugins, which is important. I don't work for them or anything, but you really don't have anything to lose by having it on you or your client's sites. Look at it as a feature and tool that you may not need now, but may need later, that also automatically performs some optimization; like adding the appropriate social media metatags to your site to display rich content on social media when your page is shared, or use Twitter cards etc.
On top of that, unless you're worried about SEO and metatags, I wouldn't waste your time or energy worrying about them. How does it benefit your client or you to be worrying about deleting meta tags? Why delete them? If they don't match the content, sure that makes sense, but chances are they do. If anything you would want to verify and optimize on the information that is there. It is all a graphical user interface, so there is no coding or anything needed on your part. I often get hung up on little things, so I'm just giving you my opinion.
Here is a feature list that comes with the free plugin:
Yoast SEO plugin feature list
Focus keyword and content analysis
In the Yoast SEO metabox you can set a focus keyword. This is the keyword you’d like your post or page to rank for in the search results. The plugin then runs a check on your content to check whether you’re using the keyword often enough – but not too often – and in the right spots. Read on about our content analysis »
Post titles and meta descriptions
In the Yoast SEO meta box you can completely optimize your post or page title and meta description, using the snippet editor functionality to see what it would look like in Google. Don’t want to think about that for every single post? Yoast SEO also let’s you set templates for titles and meta descriptions for all types of pages. Read more »
Robots meta configuration
If you want Google not to index your page, or a set of pages, you can do so with Yoast SEO. It’s also possible to tell Google not to follow the links on your page. You can set this for single posts or pages or, for instance archives. Read more »
Readability check
Apart from checking the SEO friendliness of your post, Yoast SEO now also analyzes the readability of the copy you wrote! It checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, and whether you use transition words or sub headings. Moreover it assesses if you don’t use passive voice too often. On top of that it calculates the Flesch Reading Ease score. At this moment it’s fully available for English and German, and partly available for all other languages.
Canonicals
Your website can show the same content on various URLs, which can confuse Google: this is called a duplicate content issue. The canonical link element prevents this by indicating one URL as the original content holder. WordPress core fixes this partly, and Yoast SEO does the rest! Read more about canonical URLs in Yoast SEO.
Breadcrumbs
The Yoast Breadcrumbs code has been powering many (premium) themes breadcrumbs for ages. Using the same code, the Yoast SEO plugin now gives way more granular control over this breadcrumb. You get to determine, for each post type, which taxonomy to show. You get to determine for each post, page and taxonomy, what title to use for that specific entity in the breadcrumb paths it appears in. Full control, that’s what this entire Yoast SEO plugin is about.
Primary category
Did you just write a post that fits in one category, but should definitely be in another category as well? Of course you can select both categories, but you probably consider one the main category. Yoast SEO brings the solution: you can select a ‘primary category’ for the category that’s most important and should be shown in the breadcrumb.
primary-category
Permalink clean up
Don’t you hate it when someone adds /2 to the end of a link towards you? Or links with all weird variables at the end of the URL? Yoast SEO solves this for you! Just checking one box will redirect all that stuff away, and make sure that your content is always found under the URL you want it to be found under. If you use a Google Custom search engine, checking another box will prevent that from breaking down while using this function.
XML Sitemaps
XML Sitemaps are an essential part of current day SEO, and can thus not be excluded from a complete Yoast SEO plugin. While there are other WordPress XML Sitemap Generators out there, they don’t talk to your SEO plugin. Meaning that if you noindex a page, preventing it from showing up in Google, it might still be in your sitemap. They also don’t allow you to keep certain taxonomies out of your sitemap. This plugin does. And, to boot, it makes your XML Sitemaps look good by using an XSLT stylesheet on them, so humans can read them too.
RSS enhancements
My RSS Footer plugin used to allow you to add a piece of content to the beginning or the end of posts in your RSS feed. The Yoast SEO plugin goes one step further and allows you to add content to both of them, allowing you to link back to your blog and the specific blog post, which is very helpful when you have a lot of people scraping your blog.
Edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
Editing your robots.txt and .htaccess files has never been this easy: you can edit them straight from the Files editor of the Yoast SEO plugin, so you can easily check and or update those files and keep it all nice and clean.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comlooks great. My suggestion would be to edit the button typography in the above the fold area to be more legible. It is smooshed and hard to read. Everything else looks very nice.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comWhat theme are you using? All I see is a blank page with two nav items, could you at least drop the logo into the header somewhere. That way I can troubleshoot in developer tools. Otherwise, this question is a large time investment for the answerer. Hence you haven't received a response until now.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comFor example, you can include Twitter cards and Facebook og tags and metadata, generate xml files, sitemaps, get content insights in your posts for optimization, choose focus keywords etc... It really is a full featured SEO solution. Genesis is not.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comYeah, like a lot. There really isn't a comparison. Yoast is like a 4 course meal with entrees, the Genesis built in SEO is more along the lines of a good value diner. It's nice, but it's not the best.
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comthis code here is pushing the other elements up and causing the issue. Sometimes margin works better than padding. You need to adjust this code:
.front-page-7 { border-top: 73px solid transparent; margin-top: -73px; -webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -moz-background-clip: padding; background-clip: padding-box; position: relative; z-index: 9; }
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comThat shouldn't be a problem to use a multi-site solution. The major benefit will be only one login to update themes and plugins. If you grow to even more sites, you have the framework in place to continue with that system. Downside could be plugin conflicts (not likely though).
There is also this solution https://wpremote.com/ whcih you might find helpful.
I've used it with success in the past.
As far as the sites being about different topics/target audiences, that would hold little to no bearing, at least in my mind with regards to making this decision.
Have you already chosen a new host?
Anything else just let me know!
Thanks!
Robert
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comfor what type of device (apple ipad etc)? At what dimensions do you hit a breakpoint?
What are you using to test? Firebug? Chrome Developer Tools?
Use this site and share the URL with the results as well:
Probably is an easy fix I would imagine. Get me the info and I'll help you out 🙂
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comAre these images you host on your site or are they delivered from somewhere else like an ad network or cdn? I see things wrong with the site, but nothing off the bat that indicates this particular issue.
Your footer formatting also needs to be corrected. It looks like your body tag and HTML markup are kinda on the sloppy side. I only took a quick glance at your source code, but more information is needed to figure this out.
How should your site look, do you have an example of that? Or where are the missing images exactly? Take a screenshot and circle where the missing images should be or something.
Thanks!
-Robert McMillin
RobertMcMillin.comNot sure why you wouldn't want to use Yoast, but if you're looking to remove that information, I would download the Yoast plugin, then activate it.
Once that is done, I would then delete the plugin and make sure that the setting is set to delete all meta entries and Yoast content when the plugin is deleted. Probably the quickest route.
You may or may not be damaging your SEO by doing this though. Obviously, I don't know what your situation is.
-Robert McMillin
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