McKinley Theme

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  dixiespirit · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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  Although the McKinley theme states it’s “responsive” it’s not passing Google’s new Mobile Friendly testing tool. Does anyone have suggestions, or ideas as to why my site isn’t passing? Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 5:34 pm

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  Have you enabled the Mobile theme here > Appearance > Mobile?

  The mobile ready theme is a default and a completely different theme that you do not need to enable at all.

  A responsive layout theme adapts to different screen sizes so that your website will work (and be optimized for) iPhones, iPads, Android and other mobile devices. When responsive width themes are viewed on mobiles sidebars appear below the posts in order to provide as much space as possible for reading.

  As I said above the mobile theme is a completely different theme. When we use a responsive theme we disable the mobile theme. Go to > Appearance > Mobile and disable the mobile theme

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  dixiespirit · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 6:03 pm

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  Thank you for your response. I did enable the mobile theme >Appearance>Mobile – and I also disabled it – neither way worked.

  I’m just going to change the theme. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 6:09 pm

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  I ran the Google mobile test https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ for https://the9holeladiesathh.wordpress.com/ and the result was

  The requested URL is disallowed by robots.txt.

  Go to go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 1 and click “save changes” . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Do not select option 2:

  Discourage search engines from indexing this site. – If you want all human visitors to be able to read your blog, but want to block web crawlers for search engines, this is the setting for you. (Note: Not all search engines respect this setting.)

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  dixiespirit · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 6:27 pm

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  Thank you very much. That worked.

  I purposely chose 1. Just starting this website, waiting on others to review, etc. I didn’t think that would have anything to do with a mobile-friendly ranking. Learned something.

  Great information from you. Thank you again.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 6:52 pm

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  I’m glad we were able to resolve this. Best wishes for happy blogging. :)