to specify my remarks (see above):
– it looks like when using the short code in a post, the plugin (?) replaces the “author-line” which normally is “This entry was posted in [category] by David. Bookmark the permalink.” and links to the (correct) permalink
– the plugin replaces this author line by:
“This entry was posted in by. Bookmark the permalink.”
– as I never set category and author for the GCE-Feed-URL, that is empty (and the first link is set to “www.domain.com/author” which does not exist (404)
– the second link is set to the GCE-Feed (which I don´t want)
BTW: I cann place a meta-robots “noindex, follow” on the Feed itself, because when embedding the shortcode, the whole post is set to noindex.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. We are doing our best to fix many of these issues in 2.0.4, which should be released very soon. We’re working as fast as possible on it as far as free plugins go.
When the update is out let us know what you think.
Looking forward to that – keep up the good work! 🙂
We just released 2.0.4 with a ton of updates.
Would you mind seeing if you could update your review once more? You should be able to here:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/view/plugin-reviews/google-calendar-events#postform
Thanks!
Unfortunately, the events are not displayed anymore (after installing 2.0.4.)
Also, the pages in the directory /gce-feed/ are still linked to from the author-line beneath the posts and they still can be fully indexed by Google.
See post with feed:
http://www.fussball-spielplan.de/kalender-olympia-2014/ (it says “No events to display.”)
see feed:
http://www.fussball-spielplan.de/gce_feed/olympia/
–> should I roll back to previous version?
Could you send a screenshot of your settings for the feed or describe them?
Also what’s the shortcode you’re using on your post to display the feed?
As for preventing search engines from indexing your feed pages, I would suggest using the same method you can use to prevent indexing on other plugin/theme’s custom post types.
I just added a section in our FAQ describing how I do it using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. Go to the bottom of this page and let us know if that helps.
http://wpdocs.philderksen.com/google-calendar-events/faqs/
Hi,
thanks for your answer.
1. for me, it is no option to exchange my current SEO plugin with another one (would have to redo all my settings on all my sites).
But, as you have – thanks! – deleted the link to the feed-URL, Google cannot find it anymore!. So that part is solved.
2. It works now on normal calendar settings (show events in the future)
I think my main setting change in the “olympic games” calendar on the page http://www.fussball-spielplan.de/kalender-olympia-2014/ is the Start Date Offset (which I set to 350 days BACK, as the games are over). That does not seem to work.
(old shortcode and new shortcode)
old [google-calendar-events id=”14″ type=”list”]
new [gcal id=”4986″]
BTW: a relative number (350 days back from today) is not really helpful here, because I would have to change that number again in the future to display events from the past (or change it to 100.000 days back to be sure). Why not stick to a certain date (or a date-code like before? That worked very well!)
