Hi DVR,
Let’s get right to your Q’s:
1) Yes, but it’s quite cumbersome. First, you’ll have to transfer from RM to Yoast SEO via the Yoast SEO plugin, and then you’ll have to transfer the items from Yoast SEO to TSF (as explained in our migration guide). Caveats apply… and since this is so cumbersome, we’re planning on adding the migration feature natively to TSF.
2) No. You’re the first to ask this, even! But, I understand why showing the SEO title desireable. Feel free to open a feature request for this. 🙂
3) No. I discussed the benefit of a simple sitemap extensively in our KB about sitemaps. I highly recommend perusing it, for it debunks many commonly believed myths. In a near-future update, we’re going to add full optimization support for WordPress 5.5’s native sitemaps; with that, you’ll get the option to switch between a simple and extensive sitemap without the current adverse effects.
I believe these weren’t the answers you were hoping for. But, to shed some positive light on this: what you’re requesting is already planned, or otherwise, totally up for discussion.
Hi, @cybr
1) I think that first adding Yoast, then migrating from RM to Yoast, then using the ‘SEO Data Transporter plugin’ indeed sounds cumbersome, and if the migration feature is to be added soon, I’ll wait for that to happen.
Quick point here – far from being a ‘lazy bugger’ like I first intimated, all the pages, posts and CPT’S on my website are hand-written both for the titles and descriptions. Should waiting for a new migration option on TSF really be necessary then, with all of the titles and descriptions being there already?
2) Submitted a Feature Request on GitHub.
3) Checked on my staging site, and all of the pages, posts and CPT’s SEEM to be in the sitemap.
However creating a new post (just to ensure that a new post DID exist in the sitemap) caused a 524 error (shown by cloudflare), therefore pulling down the whole website.
Once the website was back up (after 5-10 mins), the post was indeed in the sitemap.
How do I get around this 524 error pulling down my website everytime I publish a new item?
Hi again!
1) Whether you have to wait or not: It depends. If you have a few dozen posts that need migration, you can manually fix the issues (like that %%title%% and other syntaxes don’t transport well). See: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/420
If you’re dealing with a few hundred posts, then I don’t recommend migrating until our migration-tool reaches the public. Some have dared venture this route anyway (benefits outweighed the costs for some), but they had to implement filters to transform the syntaxes.
TSF has a detection built-in its SEO Bar that warns you about untransformed title syntaxes. Here’s the code.
2) Thanks!
3) I have no experience with Cloudflare errors like these. It could be that the sitemap takes too long to generate, whereafter Cloudflare faults caching it and erroneously invalidates the rest of the site. We’re going to implement a coincidentally applicable workaround for this.
Until then, try lowering the sitemap’s query limit (not all posts need to be in the sitemap forever when you have a good linking structure, which WordPress helps with greatly), and affirm you’ve enabled PHP’s OpCache on your server. Please see https://community.cloudflare.com/t/community-tip-fixing-error-524-a-timeout-occurred/42342.
I believe you’re facing a few corner cases we’ve planned to resolve, but haven’t found the time to get to yet. Nevertheless, I hope this helps 🙂
