[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

I am using Wordfence and Cloudflare for the caching. I turned both off and still had the problem. I’m not using any snippets.

Here are the shortcodes I am using

[connections category=52 enable_category_select=false page_limit='20' pagination_position='after' enable_search=true str_work_addr=Address str_work_phone=Phone str_work_email=Email enable_map=true map_frame_height=280 str_note_show='Talking About' str_note_hide='Less Talking About' enable_note_head=false enable_bio_head=false str_bio_show='More Info' str_bio_hide='Less Info' link_format='%title%' map_zoom=14
enable_category_by_root_parent=true enable_website_link=TRUE show_alphaindex='true' order_by='id|RANDOM']

Cheers
Ray

[Raymond]

Cool that would be great option, if it can be done!

Cheers
Ray

[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

I am using the cMap template, I was actually looking to choose to hide on an individual basis, not the whole list.

A lot of the fields have were you can choose the visibilty, I was wondering perhaps in some future update…..would it be possible to have this visiabilty option on the map, bio and info too?????

Just a thought

Thanks
Ray

[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your reply,

Yep the site is not set live yet to search engines, at least while I populate the empty pages with entries and you’re right it was live in the beginning for about a week. Perhaps Google did crawl while I had the drop down menu on the page.

Anyway…..I’ll monitor it over the next few weeks/months to see what happens, I reckon as it’s a new site too, it takes time for Google to pass by.

Will let you know too if the Cobalt support can fix the problem with the widget search.

Cheers
Ray

[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

I’ll send an email to the Cobalt Apps and see if they can help out. Will let you know if they offer some advice.

Regards to the second issue, I deactivated the Extender plugin but it still gives me the problem. I was also just thinking that as I have many directories on the site, if I use the search button in the sidebar that is not the landing page, the person searching is always going to be taken away from that specific page to a “Results”page. Ideally I want them to stay on that specific directory. For now I will just use the search short code option and leave the main page with a search widget leading to a results page! Of course that depends on Cobalt finding a solution.

Just one last thing that you might be able to help with….I have set all my pages that have the [connections] short-code on to no-index and no-follow. I have also set the whole WordPress to no-index while I am developing the site.

I noticed that when I do a site:swissgiraffe.com with google search there are over 3,770 results showing for the domain which seems excessive and 98% are all something to do with connections! I am worried that this will have an affect on SEO, especially as I have only started adding listings and have only two posts. This was also before I added the Extender plugin.

Any ideas why it’s doing this?

Cheers

Ray

[Raymond]

The problem plugin seems to be the Genesis Extender Plugin! This an important one for me to have! Any ideas what I can do as a solution?

As for the second issue, the main directory is set as the first page you land. Perhaps I could try the code you have and see if that resolves the issue.

Thanks
Ray

[Raymond]

That worked perfectly :)

Thanks

[Raymond]

Sorry just one last thing about the CSS, would you have the code so as not to have the long drop down box as seen in the link below, basically how do I make it shortened as it should show?

http://www.funchkins.com/directory/

Thanks

[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

That’s great, thanks for your quick reply as usual!

All the best
Ray

[Raymond]

Hi Steven,

Sorry for delay in getting back, it would work, I tried it out. The only problem is that when you look at my page I actually have two domains and also I use Multisite on the travel, so this complicates things somewhat as I have different “Connections”.

What I will probably do is just use the search in the shortcode that allows you to search within a page/category. This will suffice for now.

One last question regarding this though, when I select the drop down category and search, the display is fine
http://funchkins.travel/capetown/travel-directory/accommodation/

But when I take the drop down category out of the shortcode and just leave the search, the search button buts up against the entry
http://funchkins.travel/capetown/travel-directory

How do I get the search box to display just a little above the first entry?

Thanks
Ray

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