This has been an ongoing issue, and now I have some time to follow up on it.
\nWebmaster tools keeps reporting SOFT 404’s
\nHow do I resolve this?<\/p>\n
I have this to enable diagnostics:<\/p>\n
\/\/ This snippet adds diagnostic info to your sites <head> html comments
\n\/\/ If both is_404() & tribe_is_event_query() == true, it will output a noindex meta tag
\n\/\/ Tribe should be doing this already, but some plugins & themes strip these tags
\n\/\/ This function further tries to avoid stripping those tags by adding 100 priority to the action
\n\/\/ http:\/\/pastebin.com\/RANJbEsR
\nadd_action(‘wp_head’, ‘tribe_noindex_on_404’, 100);<\/p>\n
function tribe_noindex_on_404() {
\n $is_404 = is_404();
\n $tribe_is_event_query = tribe_is_event_query();<\/p>\n
$output = ‘<!– Tribe Index Test’.”\\n”;
\n $output .= ‘is_404(): ‘.($is_404 ? ‘true’ : ‘false’).”\\n”;
\n $output .= ‘tribe_is_event_query(): ‘.($tribe_is_event_query ? ‘true’ : ‘false’).”\\n”;
\n $output .= ‘–>’.”\\n”;<\/p>\n
if ( $is_404 && $tribe_is_event_query ) {
\n $output .= ‘<meta name=”robot” content=”noindex,follow” \/>’ . “\\n”;
\n }<\/p>\n
echo $output;
\n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1116622","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n