With regards to “and/or” issue above.

If one product, example laptop which converts to a tablet, has the shared categorical attributes: -Tablets -Laptops

The filter ‘And’ keeps Laptop open as a filterable option even if Tablet has been selected.

If I click to filter Tablets, I’m clearly not interested in Laptops. Furthermore, it would make no sense for my url structure to read:

The ‘And’ in this case allows for that url to happen, since the product in the above category example has both attributes.

In the end, some might want that functionality.

As an SEO, I don’t want it.

But in the end, it is subject to personal preference…

Enable/Disable And/Or as a user option on the backend would resolve the discussion

How is the update coming?

What your saying is correct but what you can’t remove the Laptop filter just because you selected Tablets because you might have a user who is looking for a product that is a Laptop AND a Tablet. So the filter needs to remain to allow them to select it.

For this scenario, setting the query to AND or OR will not make a difference – the Laptop filter will show either way.

But your right, its all personal preference and will be specific to your site.

We’ve added the OR query type back in. Just need to finish off a few things before we release. But just a not though – there is no enabled/disabled for the query type. You need to select either AND or OR otherwise the query won’t work.

Yes that is what I meant, select AND or OR thus enabling one disables the other.

Looking forward to the update.

Hi there,

Not currently. Working on it for the next update. But, i would have thought OR would be more complicated. With AND, the products are narrowed down, and the URL mimics this. With OR the products search is widened.

Hi there. I didn’t think it mattered either until our SEO professional said that for large WooCommerce product catalogues, AND creates too many combinations of URLs and Google ends up indexing thousands of pages.

I’m no SEO expert so I’ll defer to other SEO savvy people for more commentary here.

OR would create even more! The way Woocommerce works, once a filter is selected, if your using AND, Woocommerce will only show you filters that actually have products in them. So as you select filters, the number of extra filters you can selects gets smaller. With OR, this doesn’t happen, all filters are always available so that you can broaden the search.

Hi there,

Fix for this is in the next update that we’ll be releasing sometime next week.

Cheers, Just FYI – All in One SEO works in combination with your extension I have found, once I changed a few options I now have your category meta data & the removed url base but also have control over my home page, posts & page metadata plus sitemaps etc.

Email me please and i’ll help you debug it.

hi, any news on this?

Emailed you.

Hi there, You can only remove the /product-category at the moment.

Hi,

Both will be released within the next week or so. Just a few little bits that we want to add to the update too but if they don’t get done in time we’ll release these two fixes as a smaller update and push the rest of the stuff back.

Digging the comments i discovered this is a known bug for you developers, unfortunately this was not said before… in the end, PAGES ARE NOT INDEXABLE as in most cases they will return 404 when requested from a search result or a simple link. Google hates this so we can forget any seo improvement, in fact we get red cards from big G and very bad user experiences. Are you planning to fix this and give this rising plugin a true SEO functionality? Thank you.

Hi,

Yes we know about the bug and have a fix in place to rectify this. We’re just finalising the update and will have it rolled out soon.

Hi there,

1) yes the pages are fully indexable. 2) the page titles are dynamic and are created on the fly as filter are selected. So yes if blue is selected the page title will be bluet shirts.

Hope that helps

HI there,

To be perfectly honest i’m not too sure. It very much depends on how that plugin is creating the URLs. If its hard coding the URLS, then no they won’t work together. But if it uses the built in functions provided by Wordpress to get the URL for each category then they should work fine together.

Sorry i couldn’t be more help

Hi,

Its is widely known now that the keywords tag is no longer used, hence why it has been omitted. The plugin does output the robots tag but only if you set the category to either noindex or nofollow otherwise no tag will be output. The robots default to index/follow if thee is no tag.

The reason the plugin doesn’t handle other taxonomies is because there are other more capable plugins that do a great job of handling the SEO of these parts of Wordpress. The reason this plugin only handles Woocommerce is because other plugins were lacking in features and functionality for Woocommerce specifically, hence why we created it. It doesn’t make sense to add functionality for say, only Woocommerce pages, and not for any other non-Woocommerce page. If we did that we would be duplicating functionality that other plugins already do. Our plugin aims to fill a gap that other plugins do not fill.

Hi Sir, It is widely known that the meta description is also not used by search engines but all the popular seo plugins still include it aswell as the robots tag even if its an index/follow and leave it up to the user if they want to output these tags.

I now understand your thoughts about bridging the gap left by other plugins but product_tags are more a woocommerce thing and therefore shouldnt it really be included in your plugin ? and can you please give me the name of this other ‘more capable plugin’ that can handle meta tags on my pages (home page, about us, contact us) and product tags that can work in conjunction with your plugin id be greatful to know.

Hi there,

I’m not sure where you got that meta description are not used by the search engine. They are still widely used. When you search for something, the description that you see under the websites title in the results is the meta description.

The plugins that you were using (Yoast, Premium SEO, All-in-One SEO) are all capable of handling the meta tags for your pages. We use them extensively ourselves and they do a great job. Maybe you didn’t set them up correctly?

Sure, I’ll try that.

Also, if you have something that I can add/modify in order to prevent the filter generated urls from resetting and being returned as 404 not found errors by WMT.

Mucho appreciated!

With regards to the 404. We’ve got a fix in place already. Just finalising a few things for the update and we’ll push it out soon.

I’ll email you the instructions for removing the count. The comment is stripping the HTML here.

It worked perfectly. Thanks for the amazing support.

I suspect its your theme that adding it. Have a look at show the title tag is being output in your header.php file.

Hello,

There is nothing in the header.php that I can find.

The trailing pipe only appears to show up when I enable “Global Category Meta Settings”.

When that is disabled the trailing vertical slash disappears.

Not sure what I did, but it’s gone now.

Anything is possible But adding an image to the filter is a little outside the scope of this plugin. But it’ll give us a good excuse to finally get our own widgets plugin into development so we can make widgets even better with lots of other functionality, images just being one of them, and fully compatible with our SEO plugin!

Cool, then when can I expect the product page breadcrumb? I really want to ditch yoast breadcrumbs. They suck

A few weeks maybe. The updates in the works at the moment.

Glad you got it working!

Sounds right. Do you have any other Wordpress SEO plugins enabled that might be conflicting.

I am using All in One SEO, but this was happening even when it was disabled.

Can you email me access details so i can take a quick look?

Never mind – I didn’t have the attribute setup as a taxonomy

Hi there,

If your browsing the site for the first time, the links will be created on the fly as the widgets are displayed. The links are then saved for future use.

However, whenever Wordrpess/Woocommerce flushes its own permalinks, these link are also flushed and will need to be created again.

Hence, why you don’t get a 404 after you browse to the page manually.

However, Its been brought to our attention before and were working on a way to generated the URLs and keep them without having to browse manually so that these 404s don’t occur any more.

Do you have an ETA on this fix?

It’s in development at the moment. Can’t give a definite eta but hoping in a few weeks.

You can change the page title of all products regardless of when they were added. Again you can use the template to automatically generate the page title or you can manually set the page title for each product.

Is their a tutorial pdf or video ?

Hi,

In the SEO settings, you need to have the Global Category Meta Setting enabled. If it is not enabled, the page titles will not be modify. Let me know.

both are attributes

Hi there,

Funny you should ask this, we’re actually working on this exact functionality at the moment! It will be available for the next update which will be released soon.

I’ll look into adding a delay too.

Thank you for your reply.

Saw it in my email but can’t find it here – but I did want to clarify about the delay. I wouldn’t want a delay added. Just a visual element to inform the user to “wait – page is loading” after they select something. This would keep the frustration down I feel – partly my site is heavy but I think anyone would benefit. YITH’s filter I think adds a display:none to the products area and replaces it with a load GIF. Another plugin I played with added a little 1980’s snake loading bar. Either case it was nice to have.

PS After testing 5-8 “filter” plugins I picked yours, cuz it was the best for anyone reading this.

Sorry choice of word was wrong. I meant something visual exactly how you are describing. However, i was thinking more along the lines of disabling the dropdowns from being selected until the products for the selection has been loaded. The reason for doing it this way is because the container that hold the products on the page maybe be different from site to site so showing a loading icon that overlays the products may not work or everyone. Atleast by disabling the dropdowns, the have full control of what gets disabled. I’ll give it a bit more thought before i actually implement anything though.