Forum Activity for @claygordon

Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/02/15 11:03:08AM
758 posts

Text box for html


Installation and Configuration

Derrick:

If you take a look at the home page of TheChocolateLife.com you will see that I narrowed the "About" blog and added a right-hand column that contains two ads served up by Broadstreet.

What Strumelia suggests is a great approach if you need a block with styled text and you want to edit it with a WYSIWYG editor. However, if what you want to do is insert code for a 3rd party ad server then here is the approach I used.

It might not be the most elegant or concise bit of code, but it works. The key, as either Michael or Brian explained to me, is the use of {literal} {/literal}. This will mean that the parser will ignore what's inside.

<div class="col4 last">
  <div class="container">
  {* ========== BEGIN MARKETPLACE *}
    <div class="item blog-archive-header m10">
      <h2>Member Marketplace</h2>
    </div>
    <div align="center">
      {* BROADSTREET JAVASCRIPT  *} 
      {literal}
        <script type="text/javascript">
          the_script 
        </script>
      {/literal}
      <br /><hr width = "87%"><br />
      {literal}
        <script type="text/javascript">
          the_script 
        </script>
      {/literal}
      {* END BROADSTREET JAVASCRIPT *} 
    </div>
    {* END MARKETPLACE *}
  </div>
</div>

The Broadsreet server requires support scripts to be loaded in in the head to work, and those are put in meta.tpl.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/01/15 07:21:13PM
758 posts

Google Webmaster Tools - Site Crawl Errors - Locate and Fix?


Installation and Configuration

Okay - now that I have submitted a sitemap and Google has started crawling I am getting "not found" crawl errors (over 2000!).

In some cases I can go and find the new page but in many cases it's impossible. Even when I can find them I don't think that there's any way for me to find where the bad URL is and fix it.

Here's one where I can find the image in question:

photo/sesame-ginger-truffles?xg_source=activity

I searched Images for "sesame" and found it - so I know how to change the URL if I could find the broken one.

Any thoughts on ways to proceed? I am not going to be able to fix all of them, but do want to eliminate as many 404s as possible.

TIA,
:: Clay
updated by @claygordon: 04/24/15 01:14:24AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/01/15 12:56:33PM
758 posts

New "Kickbox" Email Validation module


Installation and Configuration

I am in no hurry to validate my list, so I noticed that I can purchase a 500/day monthly subscription for $30 that will process 15,000 names - or purchase 10,000 for $70.

So - something to consider is that tradeoff. Might be cheaper to go with a monthly subscription and take a couple of days to process the list rather than buy them outright.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/28/15 09:06:11AM
758 posts

empty sitemap?


Installation and Configuration

Now that the basics are done, I am updating the site for Google Webmaster tools.

Google said there was no sitemap though I have had the sitemap generator module up and running since day one more or less (2 months?).

I looked via FTP and there was no sitemap.xml in root.

I went to the URL https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap.xml

The sitemap was empty:

<sitemapindex> </sitemapindex>

So I ran the tool manually. The module report says that it updated over 8000 profile pages. In under 10 seconds? Not one other type of page.

Sitemap now consists of about a dozen entries that look like the following, just timestamps:

<sitemap>
  <loc>https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap/sitemap1.xml</loc>
  <lastmod>2015-02-28T11:54:31-05:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>

Still no visible sitemap.xml file in root.


updated by @claygordon: 04/16/15 12:39:57PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 12:30:51PM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

Can I add it to one of the other discussions that shows up in the search results?
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 12:10:58PM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

okay, I was able to modify the query:

item_id 10396

I went to the jrForum datastore browser and searched for 10396 - no results.
Searched for %Their wording on the website makes% and it's a comment (see attached photo).


Modify_Datastore_Item_TheChocolateLife_-_2015-02-25_15.09.54.png Modify_Datastore_Item_TheChocolateLife_-_2015-02-25_15.09.54.png - 113KB

updated by @claygordon: 02/25/15 12:11:31PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 12:00:01PM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

SELECT * FROM `jr_jrforum_item_key` WHERE (`key` = 'Their wording on the website makes' OR `value` = 'Their wording on the website makes') LIMIT 50 (0.000 s) 

No rows. 
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 11:56:34AM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

As for the formatting, there were no changes I made in 1.5.2 that were overridden in 1.5.3.

So I reset the template cache and that worked. I thought that doing a module update reset the template caches as a part of the update?
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 11:49:54AM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

Brian

In looking for the post that is missing the title - it's a forum but I can't find it. It does not show up in the member's list of forum posts even though it looks like he started the discussion. There's no title, so link to the discussion.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 11:39:56AM
758 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Installation and Configuration

I don't see where this member has toak in his profile anywhere.

The image (which is also in the gallery) does not have it.

I looked at all of the other content the member has uploaded and I don't see how the search retrieved this result.

I will take a look at the template.

Clearing div is in which?

gallery_manipulate.tpl
item_gallery.tpl
item_index.tpl
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