Syntax theme – anyone found a way of displaying tagline?
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I wondered if anyone was using this theme and had got around this issue? I’m delighted with the simplicity of the theme (I use it for a poetry blog) and the ability to add Twitter and Facebook icons is excellent. But it’s such a shame this theme doesn’t seen to support a tagline. I don’t want to include a header because the site is simple and uncluttered. Anyone else using the same theme or any ideas?
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Hi there,
I’m so with you on that. Taglines are important to WordPress.com bloggers because we cannot access and edit meat data. hence the use of a tagline is very influential over display in the SERPs.
When I was using Expound this is what Google displayed:
this time – this space | living the simple life consciously and loving it
thistimethisspace.comIf you click into that blog you will see my crude workaround. However, I’m tagging this thread for Themes Staff attention as I think they ought to add that tagline for us.
Another thing I have noticed is the theme displays Tags at the end of our posts but not categories. What’s with that? I don’t want to convert my tags to Categories.
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Second time josephinecorcoran receives a misleading reply on the same issue!
Hiding the tagline from view was a conscious and deliberate decision by the designer of the theme, and the designer of the theme is WP.
Search engines don’t read what’s visible to human visitors on your page, they read the sourcecode of the page. If you have entered a tagline in Settings > General, it appears five times in the sourcecode, regardless of whether the theme displays it or not:<title>TITLE HERE | TAGLINE HERE</title> <meta property="og:description" content="TAGLINE HERE" /> <meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="TAGLINE HERE" /> <meta name="description" content="TAGLINE HERE" /> <h2 class="site-description">TAGLINE HERE</h2> -
Hi again justpi! I posted here as well as I think I posted in the wrong place last time and I was curious to find other Syntax users and find out if they’d worked around the issue. That’s great news that search engines find the tagline but I would like blog visitors to see it too if they’ve arrived at the blog NOT via a search engine and want to know quickly what my blog is about. I’ve got around it for now by including my tagline in the blog name. Thank you timethief and hello! I will check out your blog when I have more time. I’m grateful to you for flagging this up and as for the category/tag thing – I’ll save that for another day. Thank you justpi and timethief for taking the time to respond.
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Hi there,
Syntax has an intentionally minimal design. The different features you’ve mentioned (tagline, tags/categories) were choices made by the theme author as part of that design.
If you’re not as fond of those design choices, you may want to check out some of our other themes. I like the Typo theme, which has a similarly minimal design but also includes the tagline feature.
Please let me know if you have any other questions about that. :)
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@rachelmcr
Will you please get me a response to what I posted above.Another thing I have noticed is the theme displays Tags at the end of our posts but not categories. What’s with that? I don’t want to convert my tags to Categories.
Do I have to convert all my Categories to Tags if I continue to use this Syntax theme? Or is there some glitch with regard to the lack of category display?
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@rachelmcr
For clarity, I am referring to the display of categories on the blog, just as I was referring to the display of the tagline on the blog above. -
Syntax does not display categories, so yes, you’d need to convert them to tags for that theme.
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Hi there and thanks for the response. I love the Syntax theme but that lack of the menu display at the top of the blog, the lack of the Tagline display, and the fact Categories don’t display either led me to switch back to Expound. :(
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