False events

Hi Verbier,

We very recently made a change in this area. Instead of, as previously, issuing a “404 Not Found” status (which I think is what you are referring to?) for event views that don’t contain any events, we now return a “200 OK” status.

What can I do stop Google etc thinking empty/non existent dates are missing pages?

Adding a “noindex” tag would make sense here and we’re also investigating doing that, automatically, too. Thus in addition to preventing “real” 404s that should also deal with so-called “soft” 404s.

What can I do stop Google etc thinking empty/non existent dates are missing pages?

Remember first of all that to a large extent it is providing potentially helpful troubleshooting information – so you don’t have to do anything, though of course I do understand the impetus for wanting to tidy this up.

Just updayed to 3.11.1 and I now have EVERY DAY in July showing an event scheulded for 2 days in September! Hemp this is a major problem as our Calendar is viewed all the time.

nationalhempassociaton.org

Howdy Verbier Kev,

If your server is now generating the appropriate HTTP Status then all you can do is wait for Google to reindex those pages. You can of course request they reindex, which sometimes speeds things up.

If the status are not correct yet you are on the latest version, can you share a link to a problem page?

hello zpaiss, we definitely would like to help. Would you mind opening up your own topic and thoroughly detail your problem? Per the forum rules on ww.wp.xz.cn you should start your own topic, unless “you are using the same version of WordPress on the same physical server hosted by the same hosts with the same plugins, theme, and configurations as the original poster”. Having your own topic helps ensure that each person gets the topics full attention and no one’s unique details get accidentally ignored.

Cheers!
– Brook

Hi Verbier Kev,

I can see that the first URL is in fact returning a 200 Ok status, so you will have just to wait for them to be re-indexed or request that.

Regarding the other link you shared, this is the correct link for it: http://www.kartingextremeverbier.com/events/category/verbier-things-to-do/2015-08-21/ – with ‘categorie’ just return a 404 as the URL is incorrect, not calendar related I would say.

Best,
Nico

Hey Verbier,

Sorry for the continued trouble here. Are you using a multilingual plugin by chance? If so, does it automatically translate page and post slugs–or, does it happen to create different versions of each page and post for each language? I’m wondering if there is the possibility that a another plugin is generating those faulty URLs which then get indexed.

Cheers!
Geoff

Is the same true of the category URLs as well–does the multilingual plugin translate “category” to “categorie”? The Events Calendar wouldn’t create that translation on its own, so I’m trying to figure out where it came from.

Thanks!
Geoff

Did you create the “categorie” URL:
http://www.kartingextremeverbier.com/events/categorie/verbier-things-to-do/2015-08-21/

As Nico pointed out, the calendar would not create that on it’s own.

If it exists in the system, then I imagine it’s possible you may have had a rule that translated category to categorie at some point in time, then reverted it back?

Either way, if the page no longer exists from the calendar’s point of view, then it should no longer exist on the site as a whole, assuming the calendar did create URL. In that case, it will take Google time (which is an uncertain amount) to clear those pages from its index.

Geoff