[Benji]

Thank you. replicating issue now and seems to be in theme somewhere as with all plugins deactivated it still happens. Category slug being stripped from the URL. Any way all good as on to it.
FYI seems there were many more issues with 404s in webmaster tools and all I can see this being down to is a broken site map maker. seems all is good now with the changes we have done above and upgrading my site map plugin (now using Yoast wordpress SEO) Thanks again

[Benji]

Yey nice work Barry. Good team on this. the second code is working a charm

** remove canonical link from events archives */
function wpseo_canonical_exclude( $canonical ) {
global $post;
if (is_archive() and tribe_is_event()) {
$canonical = false;
}
return $canonical;
}
add_filter( ‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘wpseo_canonical_exclude’ );

So all is now good. I think around 700 404s fixed with these two edits in this thread 🙂

I would like to ask if you have any knowledge of why the standard category archives are now playing up? eg
404: http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/news/page/2
link from: http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/news/

I see this problem on a few categories archives (those which are paginated)
I have done the standard disable plugins and this did not work. I can not replicate the issue on my test site though? Any thoughts are welcome although I know this is not events calendar directly 🙂 but more a break in the theme.
Thank you

[Benji]

I have found a couple of bits of code but one is for all posts to remove Canonical links and the other is for specific pages.
Any chance you can make either of these codes for these event categories only?
———code for multiple posts in below code ———
ID,array(4, 677)) ) { ?>

———code for one post only ———
function wpseo_canonical_exclude( $canonical ) {
global $post;
if ( $post->ID == 4350) {
$canonical = false;
}
return $canonical;
}

———— removes all canonicals ———
add_filter( ‘wpseo_canonical’, ‘wpseo_canonical_exclude’ );

Open to your majic 🙂

[Benji]

Looks like it is in the Yoast SEO plugin?

seems that the conical links are not populating the /past/ into the URL as without past in the url the link does not work? Can you shed any light on this?

[Benji]

Looks like it is in the Yoast SEO plugin?

[Benji]

Hi Barry
Here is a 404 link in webmaster tools
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/page/8/
this is where the link comes from
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/past/page/8/
Here is another example
404 http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/48/
Linked from
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/48/

does this help?

[Benji]

Hi

They are all linked to from past pages?

http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/past/page/2/

Each of these errors has the same format of where linked from content to the 404 page has this /past/ put into the URL.

Errors are Not from the site map.

Does this help?

[Benji]

Hi Barry
good idea about the conditional within the function, I will investigate.

As for the pages, these are not real pages but the archives. eg when you list many events within a category you can not list them all on one page when you call the archive of that page. I think these are those extra pages made to fit in the archives but the events calendar is making too many of these pages. Does this make sense?

for example if you go to http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/3/ you will see a list of upcoming events, but if you go to http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/54 this page does not exist! as there are not enough events for it to exist.

I think it is coming from the events calendar as I do not see where else it could be made?

[Benji]

HI
I have looked and am unable to find out where this is coming from? With this in mind I have tried closing all plugins that are not on my test site (which is also fine like your twenty eleven site on my current theme) and the feed still remained.

So what I have done is added the following code to the functions php file in my child theme

/** disable comment feeds for individual posts */
function disablePostCommentsFeedLink($for_comments) {
return;
}
add_filter(‘post_comments_feed_link’,’disablePostCommentsFeedLink’);

this has removed the feed and changed nothing else 🙂

I do not get many comments, and those who do want to follow, if they want to stay in touch they can subscribe to comments? What are your thoughts on this fix?

So next is the other issue number 2.

[Benji]

Also I thought this “linked to from” information for the recurring busselton community event feed (that is made automatically and goes nowhere) http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/feed may be of help for you also.

http://margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14
http://margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/all/

[Benji]

Hi certainly

website is http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au

We have over 2,000 events now listed. for which I have around 700 404 errors in webmaster tools.

These errors seem to be two things.
1/ recurring events like http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/ keep having the events calendar create a feed page for each day event like http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/feed which do not work. If you would like more examples please see any reccurring event on the margaret river guide url above.

2/I also have the 404 error in webmaster tools for category archives I think
eg http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/page/7/ or
http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/54/

These archives are automatically made and point no where?

How can I stop the events calendar making these incorrect feeds for recurring events and the category archives that do not lead anywhere?
Does this help you know where to look now?

[Benji]

Yes I have installed the latest version of the plugin now (yesterday), but it was 2.0.9 before when I got all these 404’s. Will this update fix these 404’s ie. they just dissapear, or what am I meant to do with these 600 or so bogus urls creating 404’s.

[Benji]

Sorry now that is odd, just tried the link again now, 24 hours from when I updated events calendar and now it worked! must be some sort of a time delay, but all good.

[Benji]

HI Barry – Yes tried the promt at the top of the page, which you can not miss and it warns that they are incompatible and then when you press update it says I have the latest version? I am running wp 3.4.2 with events calendar 2.0.11

[Benji]

HI
I have gone to upload the latest pro version 2.0.11 and naturally wordpress tells me it is already installed. The download link from the warning on the dashboard does not work either. I have over 1,000 events so i want this to go smoothly. please advise how I update my pro upgrade thank you.

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