25 Most Recent Comments on the Stallion All In One WordPress SEO Theme V7.1.1 website
Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests
Comment #52836 by Mark on 21.05.13, 00:18
You do not even have to reply to this. It is an overly rehashed topic.
I do hope you feel better.
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Comment #52506 by Daniel on 16.05.13, 15:51
Hi David,
Very sorry to hear about your health issues, and hope you will soon feel better. Thanks for the tip about the nofollow cloaking.
By the way, I think it’s a fantastic theme with an incredible number of features, and am really enjoying using it.
Daniel
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Comment #52501 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 16.05.13, 13:54
No time frame for the next Stallion update (planned to have it done at the start of the year!), having some health problems that’s making it difficult to work for long periods of time, so a lot of stuff is on hold unfortunately until I feel better.
Really sucks as have a lot of new features in the works, though not looked at cloaking for other plugins. If the Amazon plugin uses nofollow links (most plugins do use nofollow) the Stallion link cloaking will work with no additional changes as it can convert all nofollow links to Stallion cloaked links already.
David
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Comment #52491 by Mark on 16.05.13, 10:54
There are some large updates looming in the algorithm and the company that dominates, has been pretty forthright lately about Penguin 2.0 and other changes.
One of the ideas is the more natural your site generally, the better you will do. This includes, not stuffing keywords and natural verbiage in anchor text in links.
However, I have seen on the forums that you should have a ‘healthy balance’ between follow and no-follow links outbound. This is again under the category of ‘natural links’ are rewarded and it is rationalized a natural site would have such a ratio of no-follow to follow.
Although this contradicts my understanding of how Google works, that is there is only so much to go around, so you might as well horde it, rather than dissipate it, I question if SEO is changing? They really are rocket scientists at Google and I imagine the complexities in their search formula go beyond the idea of page rank steering, but more about site trust in complicated ways. They might rationalize a trusted site will no-follow a percentage of links. Which is too bad if this is the case because I do not have paid links on my site, I only link out because I want to.
It also begs another question, should you link out at all or at least use no-follow when I do. I have been linking out to ‘trusted sites’ and not for pay, rather, I just link out if I find a resource.
I am tempted to put a few non-follow as perhaps my site’s ranking is dampened by not having one no-follow on it?
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Comment #52078 by Daniel on 11.05.13, 15:55
Hi David,
Any date yet for the next Stallion update? Im also wondering if you will be integrating cloaking for any of the other autoposting Amazon plugins.
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Stallion WordPress Theme Layout/Design Options
Comment #52058 by Erik on 11.05.13, 10:52
Thanks Dave, I think I figured out what I did. I think it was because I removed the thick grey image border when I was originally customizing the CSS.
I went into the css color layout I am using (style-talian.css) and bumped out the max-width for both the uncaptioned (img.size-full) and captioned image (.wp-caption) to 100% (they were at varying values, 97.5%, 96%). Now the images are displaying with normal width.
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Comment #51963 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 10.05.13, 12:14
That’s a CSS setting called max-width within the Stallion layout CSS files so images never stretch over the sidebars.
Under /stallion-seo-theme/colors/ you’ll find the layout CSS files name format layout-***.css where the *** relates to the layout used, layout-310r.css for example is the 310px wide right sidebar layout (like I use on this site).
Within those files you’ll find this CSS code:
.content_all img {
max-width: 660px;
margin: 0 0 24px 0;
}
Each file has a different max-width set, the one above is 660px for the right sidebar layout, the double sidebar layouts has it set at 560px and the no sidebars set at 970px. It’s set to take advantage of the entire content area without loading over the sidebars.
If you remove the code entirely the width of the image will determine if it loads over the sidebars or not. I find it looks unprofessional when images load over the sidebars.
David
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Comment #51962 by Erik on 10.05.13, 11:27
Hi Dave, just a quick question on images. I have noticed recently that when I upload a 540px image, the display width is inevitably crunched (for instance, down to 530 or even 506 pixels in a couple of recent posts). The image itself is not affected (it stays at 540px width), just how it is displayed on the published post.
I just started noticing this having recently upgraded to the most current edition of Stallion. This has also retroactively affected old posts and uploads.
I am wondering if there is any property in the latest edition that may be causing this, or perhaps it is coincidental, and external to anything with the theme? Have been searching online for similar issues but having trouble finding anything in the general WordPress ecosystem.
Thanks,
Erik
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Stallion WordPress Theme Promotion Options
Comment #51861 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 09.05.13, 09:09
There’s no Stallion option to change the Facebook code.
The code is located in the file
/stallion-seo-theme/plugins/social-network.php
on line 11.
Not looked into what you want to achieve, so don’t have a code snippet, should be easy to find the code from Facebook.
David
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Comment #51765 by Ratanak on 08.05.13, 04:50
Hello David,
As I see your promotion part in the facebook, I want to change its layout from “standard” to “button_count” which is quite short in length. But I don’t where I can change it, please guide !!!
Thank you so much
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WordPress SEO Tutorial Duplicate Content and Canonical URLs
Comment #51628 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 06.05.13, 11:29
1,200+ posts in only 8 categories averages at 150 posts per category IF you have them spread evenly (which you won’t).
With the standard 10 posts per category that’s 15 pages deep, unless you have a high PR site (loads of backlinks) there’s a very good chance a significant amount of your deeper content rarely sees a search engine spider (can’t find them, some content will be over 10 clicks from home!).
I try to keep the number of posts shown in a category to under 20 and try to keep the number of page 2, 3 category to as low as possible. With your site for example I’d rather have 30 categories with on average 40 posts a category with the number of posts shown per page set to 20 which would result in most categories going 2 or 3 pages deep than your current setup of 15 pages deep.
This would have a sitewide impact, posts that are currently getting very little link benefit will get significantly more and those that get most link benefit could see significantly less. So there’s going to be ups and downs in current SERPs, I would recommend compiling a list of the pages that gain most traffic and add them to a custom menu and add them as a sitewide widget so they don’t loose their current internal backlinks. Basically if you have a post that with your current setup has a sitewide link and you change it so it only has one link from page 2/3 of a category it might loose rankings.
I bought this site Mobile Phone Reviews last year and reorganised it.
157 posts
10 categories
15 posts shown in a category
Categories range from 8 to 15 posts per category (most are around 10-12) meaning there are no page 2 categories.
Since I own over 100 domains I don’t have the time to spend reorganising sites to the level I’d suggest for a webmaster with one site. If I had the time I’d push posts that gain no search engine traffic because they aren’t really targeting SERPs into categories with more than the ideal number of posts so they get even less link benefit. I’m sure you have lots of posts that don’t really target anything, in a perfect SEO world they either need targeting at some SERPs (a rewrite which takes time) or partially removed from the site so they don’t waste too much link benefit.
For example if you went with around 20 categories, 20 posts per archive page and designate 4 categories to push less important posts into (100 posts per category for example) the number of posts in your ‘important’ categories that are targeting SERPs is dramatically reduced: 400 posts in the unimportant categories means 800 in the important categories, 800 posts into 16 categories = 50 posts per category, if set to 20 posts shown per category it averages 3 pages deep which is similar to having 30 categories and evenly spreading all posts. In the real world you won’t get perfect numbers, keep them in mind and will help spread link benefit more efficiently.
David
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Comment #51571 by Erik on 05.05.13, 13:49
Excellent answer Dave. I have begun reducing tag pages.
I think part of my problem is that I have only 8 categories, and 1200+ posts.
The smallest category contains 40 posts, while the largest, very generic category has over 400. These are all currently displaying just 10 posts per page, so you are getting some categories that go for 40 pages or more into the abyss.
Is the answer to create numerous new category pages to split these out? I could probably come up with suitable new categories using keywords, and reassign posts from these big categories to the new categories.
This would have the effect of adding a lot of category links in my sidebar widget (thus reducing link benefit to other links I’ve deemed important).
But I suppose it would distribute link benefit more deeply through the site (on your advice from this previous discussion – http://www.stallion-theme.com/stallion-wordpress-theme-layoutdesign-options?cid=10854 –
I don’t display tags in any site-wide widget so benefit is not flowing in that manner).
A second issue then is deciding how many posts to display per category/tag page.
It looks like there are plugins or other hacks that can be used to display a specific number of posts per page (I’d like to keep my main index page just showing the standard 10, but increase the tags/categories).
Is there an upper limit for how many posts should be displayed on a page?
I realize you might not have a specific answer, but is it reasonable to have a category page with, say, 50 or more post excerpts on a single page?
Many thanks
Erik
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Comment #51416 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 03.05.13, 13:15
If some WordPress tags get search engine traffic keep theme and keep the same layout, but delete the tags that get no traffic.
This way your tags with traffic loose no internal backlinks and you waste no link benefit on tags that aren’t generating traffic, which means the important tags (and other pages on the site) gain more link benefit since less is wasted.
Same argument for categories, not much point having a tag or a category that doesn’t generate traffic OR doesn’t serve a spreading link benefit function: every post needs to be in one category or tag, ideally each category/tag would be limited to only 10 posts (or whatever number you set archives to show, doesn’t have to be 10) so they don’t go over to category page 2, page 3 etc… This maximises link benefit to all deep content assuming you have a sitewide widget of categories/tags.
Category One has a sitewide link and has no more than 10 posts (or the number you have it set to so it doesn’t go to page 2), this means all the posts in Category One are no more than 2 clicks away from home page and since all categories are linked sitewide all content receives a fair share of link benefit.
If you use a popular posts widget those posts will also have sitewide internal links, so will be no more than one link from home.
In practice it tends not to be this perfect setup, but if you keep it in mind you won’t go far wrong. If you want specific posts to gain more internal links so it ranks higher there’s custom menus where you can link to specific URLs to make sure they have more internal links.
David
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Stallion Theme Colours, Banners and Header Image Options
Comment #51413 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 03.05.13, 13:02
http://www.stallion-theme.com/stallion-theme-colours-banners-and-header-image-options?cid=12176
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Comment #51192 by lucky on 30.04.13, 20:49
Hi david,
Few weeks ago I have enabled left sidebar, even though I removed all the widgets from Left sidebar (it is showing me empty left sidebar through wordpress)I am able to see widgets in the live site,let me know the what was the issue??
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Comment #50851 by Erik on 27.04.13, 11:58
Thanks Dave, I know you’ve covered this before. A few of my tag pages actually rank quite highly for fairly important keywords, but as you say most do not. Collectively the bring about 3% of visits. You are right these tag and category pages tend to be among the higher Page Rank pages on the site.
My only reluctance is whether turning off tags on archive pages will hurt this albeit small segment of highly-ranking tag pages.
I already did a tag cull awhile back, but will look to reduce them more.
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Stallion Theme Colours, Banners and Header Image Options
Comment #50847 by Erik on 27.04.13, 11:47
Thanks Dave, that’s what I was hoping 
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Comment #49646 by Masud on 14.04.13, 01:52
Hay David,
I configured as you said and it’s working fine see http://www.wellwaterhydration.com/ amazing “Stallion seo theme” all are there just need to know how it works. Thanks for your valuable reply.
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Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Support
Comment #49638 by Clayton on 14.04.13, 00:28
Thanks for the tip on storing passwords in Filezilla David. I just erased the ones that I had stored there now! In my issue that I had it was due to installing ZenCart then unistalling it …..I think. hahaha
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Comment #49614 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 13.04.13, 19:52
I’d be worried about finding a folder that shouldn’t be there, could be your sites been hacked.
Make a backup and reinstall everything, change passwords etc… unless you are sure your site wasn’t compromised. If it is hacked you’ll probably find other files that have been uploaded to allow further access by the hacker. Been there a few years back, made the mistake of storing FTP passwords in Filezilla and running Internet Explorer with an out of date Adobe plugin (I think my PC was compromised, think a hacker downloaded the Filezilla password list which isn’t encrypted!!!: never store your passwords in Filezilla, massive security flaw) was a pain fixing the damage caused.
David
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Comment #49613 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 13.04.13, 19:43
A white screen can mean a server error or a PHP error or…. impossible to say without error messages.
If the site works with the standard WordPress theme it would suggest an incompatibility with Stallion.
If you are currently locked out of the sites admin screen you’ll need to delete Stallion using FTP or your hosts control panel. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and delete the /stallion-seo-theme/ folder. When an active theme is deleted this way WordPress reverts the site back to the default theme which will give you access to the WordPress Dashboard.
There’s a lot of code snippets and plugins added to Stallion and it can cause issues with other plugins that are running. On this site I used to run a plugin that would randomly ‘crash’ the site (white screen) so had to stop using it.
First step is check your error logs or turn on error reporting in your wp_config.php file or run a plugin like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/log-deprecated-notices/ that might store the errors before the error takes the site down.
If you can get the error messages we might be able to track down the cause.
David
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Comment #49595 by Clayton on 13.04.13, 16:17
We compared all files and folders via filezilla and seen one folder extra in the root directory then deleted it and now the Stallion theme and works fine. The folder name was “.php” without quote.
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Comment #49594 by Marcus on 13.04.13, 16:16
Sorry,
http://www.marcusg.eu
is the site I’m talking about.
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Comment #49593 by Marcus on 13.04.13, 16:14
I can’t use the theme on this site.
When I do the WP-Admin page vanishes
leaving me with a blank white screen.
Any ideas?
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Stallion Theme Colours, Banners and Header Image Options
Comment #49454 by WordPress SEO Theme Author on 12.04.13, 10:57
Under Stallion Theme >> Layout Options your could
Activate Stallion 2011 Header Area
2011 Simplified Title Link Area OFF
and
Hide Original Stallion Header Area
With the Stallion 2011 Header Area the large image is clickable. Upload an image you like and you’ll have a clickable header image.
Difference between the default header area is the size of the image.
David
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