Thousands of URLs for every future date possible auto generated. Possible bug?

[Vincent]

Thanks Jonah. Can you please confirm what the code is to add? The code on github doesn’t look correct and gives me an error. Do I just copy and paste the entire code into the bottom of my functions.php? For reference:

displaying == ‘day’ )
echo ”;
}

[Jonah]

Hi Vincent,

If you are getting an error it’s probably because you don’t need to paste in the opening PHP tag. Try just adding this at the bottom of your functions.php file:

if (class_exists( 'TribeEvents' ) )
add_action('wp_head','tribe_dont_index_day_views');

function tribe_dont_index_day_views() {
$tribe_ecp = TribeEvents::instance();
if( $tribe_ecp->displaying == 'day' )
echo '';
}


– Jonah

[Jamie]

Hi all,
I’ve tried the above nofollow code in the functions.php file which works for a single day view, but it doesn’t resolve the issue on calendar display pages: “http://url.com/events/2126-08” for instance. This is the majority of the “Possible outages” errors that Google Webmaster Tools keeps notifying me about. Does $tribe_ecp->displaying have a parameter that includes this calendar month view?

Also, does the default setting need “follow” on these types of pages? I assume that’s how Google arrived at August of 2126 in the first place.

Thanks, Jamie

[Julien]

It could be great if this bug would be fixed in next release. My website has more than 18 000 pages indexed ! This is very bad for my SEO !

[Vincent]

Thanks Jonah. I added this to my functions.php. How can I know if it’s working? I assumed I would see a robots no-index meta tag in the html now, but didn’t see one. Is that what I should be looking for?

[Rob]

Julien: we are still working out the correct “one-size-fits-all” fix for this, but should have it in 2.0.9. The 2.0.8 release that’s coming out this week was under code-freeze before we got to this point so it regretably will not have the fix.

Vincent: how long ago did you add the code?

[Vincent]

I added the code on July 6th, shortly before I posted that comment. I have noticed a slow decrease in soft-404’s in webmaster tools, but was hoping to be able to confirm for myself if the code is working (by looking in the html for a no-index tag or something).

Thanks,
Vince

[Rob]

Hey Vincent. Ah, thanks for confirming. At this point unfortunately the best way would just be to check in the decrease in 404s over time…

[Simon]

I too am seeing this error with a massive spike in soft 404s in GWT. I don’t have time to mess around so I’ve had to disallow /events/ in robots.txt. This is obviously a less-than-ideal solution.

[Rob]

Hey Simon. Thanks for confirming here; this is a bit outside my area of expertise but let me see if our dev Paul – who has been dealing with a related issue on the WordPress.org forum – could offer up anything here. Appreciate your patience so far.

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