Wrong title
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Hello
My blog is called ‘The Pays Basque changed our lives’. Unfortunately an old title (Basque in the sun or Basque-ing in the French sun is still attached to this on the search engines, which then gives an incorrect link. How do I eliminate them please?
Regards
John.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hey John,
Search engines are tricky and getting to change them will be a tad difficult and time consuming. If the search engine is google, you can submit a request to remove the link. -
‘aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/basqueing-in-the-French-sun’ is the incorrect link
Sorry for the delay – my computer packed up last night! This link puts people through to WordPress but not ‘aquitaine2015.wordpress.com’
which confuses people!Hope you can help.
Excuse me for asking but where are WordPress staff based??
Regards
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I just put that link into my browser and landed on your site here:
https://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/basqueing-in-the-french-sun-2/
As simplysaru mentioned, search engines can take a while to update their results, but we try to account for links that are slightly off and redirect readers to the right place.
Where you do land when you click on this link:
http://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/basqueing-in-the-French-sun/
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Thanks again!
The incorrect link does land in the right place, but on the first page and not my site. Guess I’ll have to live with that!
Are you able to help with one other query? Pictures have now appeared on my site but I don’t recall putting them there! However, they do enhance the blog. My question is; how do I space out the writing with those images. Is there a setting I should go to??
Thanks again
John.
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Our theme developers actually just updated the Boardwalk theme to display the first image in your post if you don’t have a Featured Image set. You can turn this functionality off if you’d like through your Customizer in the Theme pane.
Or, you can have more control over which images appear by setting Featured Images on your posts.
Does that help? I’m not sure exactly what you’re referring to by “space out the writing with those images” so let me know if I didn’t address this. :)
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Thank you yet again; I’m sorry to be so ignorant but I’m very impressed with the help I am getting. I think I’d better invest in WordPress for Dummies!
I haven’t yet mastered Customizer or Featured Images. Is the Boardwalk theme the line of images of all posts that appear when you first visit the site? If so, the first image in each post is not being shown there. Is that my fault? I would please like the first image to be shown as someone isn’t so pleased with the image on Post 2!
By ‘spacing out the writing’ I meant is it possible to rearrange the words on the Boardwalk? Maybe I’d better wait before trying that.
Thanks again; the help is appreciated.
John.
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Hi John!
I’m happy to help you out! Here’s some information about your theme, Boardwalk:
https://wordpress.com/themes/boardwalk/
We have many different themes, each with their own way of displaying your posts, images, videos, and other content.
You can choose the specific image for each post by setting a Featured Image on the post. Here’s some info about doing that:
Open your second post in the editor, and select a Featured Image. As long as the image is 2000 wide by 1500 high or larger, it will appear on the front of your site.
I hope this helps! Let me know what else I can help with. :)
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I’ve done it!! Thanks to you Shawna I’ve got on top of the Featured Image – many thanks.
The Custom Menus is more challenging! I guess this refers to the writing along the top of the Featured Image?
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At least I thought I had. Please can you tell me why the Featured Images of the first two are the width of the page, but the others aren’t??
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I just took a look at this post with the full width featured image:
https://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-pays-basque-changed-our-lives-4/
And this one without it:
https://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/the-pays-basque-changed-our-lives-5/
When I open the second in the editor, I don’t see a featured image set. If you have a post with a featured image that isn’t displaying full width on the page, will you give me a direct link to it?
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I’ve redone them and all five pages should now have full width featured images.
You’ve mentioned ‘Editor’ more than once. Where exactly is it? I can see ‘Edit’ but not that.
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You’ve mentioned ‘Editor’ more than once. Where exactly is it? I can see ‘Edit’ but not that.
Sorry for being unclear! I’m clicking on that “Edit” button to open the post in the editor. That way I can see the settings you have for your post. :)
PS Can I add a photo of me where it says member??
Definitely! You’ll need to set that up through Gravatar:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/
Let me know if you have any more questions!
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Dear Shawna, if it's you who gets this!
If you go into post number 3 (the one with the green bicycle and mountains) you will see that there are two country pictures touching. Please can you give me advice about moving media about – the images don't go where I want them!!
Best wishes
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Sounds like you mean this post:
https://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/basque-ing-in-the-french-sun-3/
I see the two images you’re referring to. I believe this is happening because the two images when put side-by-side are wider than the content area on your site. I would try putting them on separate lines, or making the wider image thinner so they fit side by side.
Here are some more tips on aligning images:
Let me know if I can help further!
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Well yes, there is Shawna please!
If you go into my link ( https://aquitaine2015.wordpress.com) you see a panorama of all my posts (The Boardwalk Theme??)
The first says ‘The Pays Basque changed our lives 1 The promised land.
Is it possible to move ‘1 The promised land’ down a space to split it from the title?
Kind regards
John.
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