[Resolved] SEO and pagination with WP Show Posts

[Grant]

Hello,

Some of my queries may be answered here: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/wpshowposts-creates-seo-isues/ so feel free to amalgamate the posts as you see fit.

I am using WP Show Posts as a layout page. The content deals with cultural practices in South Africa and there is a brief textual description at the top of the page, following which posts in a particular sub-category are shown.

My questions are:

• Will the content on this page be indexed and made available in search results? If so, what is made indexed? I am displaying H2 heading and excerpts.
• Do GP Premium and WP Show Posts (free) paginate in different ways? I checked pagination, chose to display 10 posts (but had 16) and the pagination did not work / show up. So, I subsequently set it to display 20 posts.

Thanks,

Grant

[David]

Hi there,

WP Show Posts is designed to add post lists as content any where in your site, and as such those pages will be indexed as any regular page would. Google will see them as list of articles and links.

You need to set the Posts per Page in each of the WPSP lists you create.

[Grant]

Thanks for the info on indexing, David.

With regards to the posts, I have 16 posts to show on this page. If I set the Posts per Page to 10: https://imgur.com/liOhA1s and check Pagination, only 10 show and I don’t see any pagination, i.e. I can’t click to Page 2 to access the remaining 16 posts.

[David]

Can you link me to the page where that WPSP list is displayed?

[Grant]

Sure, here you go: http://bit.ly/2mgRLV3

Currently set to show 10 posts with Pagination enabled.

[David]

Just to test something, can you reduce the posts to display down to 5

[Grant]

Sure, I have now done that.

[David]

hmmm … so if Pagination is set and its not displaying then something is breaking that function.

Can you create a test page without any of the other widgets / functions attached eg. search… ?

[Grant]

Hmmm, seems to work: http://bit.ly/2lXgSMm

[David]

Ok, so it means something else loading on your posts is conflicting. Can you try disabling the plugins or other functions you’re using on your single posts to see what is conflicting.

[Grant]

Ok, thanks for your help. We’ll de-activate some plugins and see what is causing the problem.

[David]

Let us know

[Grant]

Hi David,

1. I de-activated all plugins except GP Premium and WP Show Posts.
2. I checked Pagination and set WP Show Posts to show 10 of the 16 posts, i.e. to force the pagination

It still didn’t work – i.e. pagination didn’t work. Tried it on another test post and it didn’t work either.

So, on my site, it works on pages but not on posts. You may want to explore further but I am just going to show all posts for the time being.

[Tom]

Just to confirm, the same list with the same settings has pagination on pages, but not posts?

Let me know and I’ll do some testing 🙂

Thanks!

[Grant]

Hi Tom,

Yes, I’m using the same shortcode on a page and a post so same list and same settings. Pagination works on the page but not the post.

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