Switch off AJAX?

[cyberplex]

Hello,
Is it possible to switch off AJAX for the Events Results page please? Mostly the Next/Prev buttons. AJAX is causing a few issues with Google Ads & Google SEO in general. If I could switch off AJAX then my problems would be solved.
Thank you,
Martin

[Brook]

Howdy cyberplex,

Unfortunately that is not possible. Our plugin is completely reliant on Ajax.

The pages you mentioned though do not hold SEO value. In addition to simplifying the code, that is actually one of the reasons why our plugin devs chose to have the next/prev links rely on Javascript. It prevents crawlers from indexing useless pages. Though we also use noindex meta tags as well. We did quite a bit of research before making these choices.

Do you have any other questions or anything? Please let me know. Cheers!

– Brook

[cyberplex]

Hello Brook,
Thank you for your reply. I really need Google to find & index all the events in my system. How would you recommend I go about this please?
Thanks,
Martin

[Brook]

Fair enough. That is going to be a very very in-depth modification. First you would want to adjust the meta tags on the pages. You might simply grep the plugin directories for “<meta”. It is possible these might be removed through WP Filters, though I do not remember for certain. Second, you would need to copy the JS logic behind Next, Prev links, and our Tribe bar, rewrite it in PHP, and attach it to the relevant bits in our PHP code. I do not believe this is going to be possible with mere theme-overrides, so you would have to directly modify the plugin. Sadly, this means that you will be unable to update the plugin without having to reperform all of these modifications to the new codebase. Therefore, you might be interested in forking “The Events Calendar” plugin on github and trying to keep as many of the modifications as possible to the fork. That would allow you an easier upgrade path in the future.

I hope that overview will help you. As you can see I was not kidding when I said it will be in-depth modification! Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Since this thread has gone for a spell without an y updates I am going to archive it. Should you need further assistance though please do not hesitate to open a new topic. Cheers!

– Brook

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