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Severe BuddyPress / Yoast conflict


  • msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I’ve searched the internet and this forum in particular for a couple of hours but could not find a proper workaround for this issue:

    As you know, BuddyPress setup works by creating two blank pages – members and groups. If I type in a meta description in Yoast for both and preview the pages, the description text is added to the page header and gets properly displayed in the page source text.

    But as soon as I assign the two pages to the BuddyPress plugin, the description gets stripped completely. In the page source appears an author note that a description needs to be added.

    I could live with that, but I urgently need to make my members page and all its related members profile content invisible to search engines. The severe problem is, that the Yoast settings „noindex, nofollow“ are stripped too.

    The BBpress Forum page is not affected by this issue. Yoast can apply a meta description and the „noindex, nofollow“ command, which is a good thing.

    Can someone please help me out with a solution?

    Thanks in advance,
    Martin

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  • Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Sounds like you need to ask Yoast to add support for BuddyPress.


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you for your quick reply Venutius. I reported this issue to the Yoast support forum and hope to get feedback some day in the future. I will keep you informed.

    One more thing: May I direct you to this support ticket, which describes an issue which is said to be fixed for years, but still present on my and KLEO theme developer’s system:

    https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8044

    Thanks for looking into this ticket, and I would be happy if you could chime in.

    Regards,
    Martin


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years ago

    Hello again,

    the YOAST team has confirmed the BuddyPress conflict and told me to contact the BuddyPress developers – it’s the back and forth game situation.

    https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/12435#issuecomment-479479079

    Can you please get in contact witch each other? Maybe you can sort things together. I am sure that a lot of users including me would gratefully appreciate your effort.

    Maybe this thread could help to find a solution:

    Making WordPress SEO plugin compatible with BuddyPress

    Thank you in advance and all the best,
    Martin


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    5 years ago

    I guess the next step would be to raise an issue on Trac, since this sounds like you are wanting a change to the way the code works. include the link to the Yoast discussion.


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years ago

    Thanks for your quick reply. The mentioned thread was just to show that someone has already tried to find a solution.

    I have no coding skills at all, but I guess someone – either BuddyPress or YOAST team would have to make changes to their code in order to solve the issue. Can you please go ahead and raise the issue on Trac? If someone asks specific questions there, I most probably could not give the right answers.

    Regards,
    Martin


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    5 years ago

    It’s best if you raise the ticket, even if it’s not very technical, Once it’s raised I can comment on it. You raising it means you can follow it and know what the outcome is.


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years ago

    Okay, got it and will raise. Thanks again!


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    5 years ago

    Here we go:

    https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8078#ticket


    wasanajones
    Participant

    @wasanajones

    5 years ago

    you should be able to use robots.txt to prevent indexing of specific pages too.

    not sure about member profiles — but I think a /members/* wildcard (properly written) should work


    msteimann
    Participant

    @msteimann

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for your suggestion, @wasanjones. Google Search Console told me that some of the member pages have been indexed despite being blocked by my robots.txt

    So I still keep my fingers crossed that the BuddyPress-Team will soon figure out how to solve this issue by changing the core code or whatever solution might work.

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