Non logged in users seeing "subscribe" - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Tim — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:30:41 +0000

Sorted I think.

My bad! I'd set Enable wpForo SEO for Meta Titles (& Tags) to NO. They are now back at YES

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Robert — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:10:56 +0000

All those are old topics, there is no any issue now and your issue doesn't have any relation to Yoast.

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Tim — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:01:08 +0000

Will do.

But did I see in the forums that some users still have issues with this WPForo / Yoast SEO etc. It is fairly usual?

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Robert — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:57:36 +0000

Ok this seems to a theme issue or other plugin conflict. The screenshot is normal, ir should be there, it doesn't contain any data which may conflict. The Main SEO data are removed from that and only come with wpForo SEO. But for some reason the wpForo SEO is not there. it seems some hook is not used by your theme or some other plugin conflict with that. Try to disable other plugins, delete the cache again and test it. If you still don't see the wpForo SEO section then try to switch the theme to some default theme for a moment, delete cache and check it.

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Tim — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:50:33 +0000

Hi,

Many thanks for your help.

I'm still having trouble though. I've removed the caching plugin, purged WP Cache & hard refreshed one of the forum pages. But still it says SEO by Yoast & the description etc is the standard meta description for that page: https://unretired.co.uk/forum/

Here is screenshot of part of source code for: https://unretired.co.uk/forum/pre-retirement-preparation/preparation-programme-but-not-primarily-finances/

Screenshot-2018-11-22-at-10.47.41-am.png

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Robert — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:37:31 +0000

Hi @tim,

You don't need to to exclude it, wpForo does it automatically with Yoast SEO. Just disable the cache plugin for forum page. wpForo already has a built-in caching system. I see the forum pages are cached/optimized/minifed. There wasn't such thing list time.

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Tim — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:57:52 +0000

Many thanks for pointing this out.

I've just deactivated the old SEO plugin & installed / activated Yoast.

I'm having trouble seeing where in Yoast I need to tell it to exclude the Forum page. Can you advise?

Thanks,

Tim

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Robert — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:56:37 +0000

Hi @tim,

I see you use SEO Framework by Sybre Waaijer, this plugin has disabled wpForo SEO and it doesn't generate forum specific SEO tags, all your forum pages has the same SEO Title and Description. This plugin affects your forum SEO. I see your forum doesn't have such section in page source:

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wpForo-SEO.png

This is dinamic generated SEO information. And this is different for each forum and topic. But your SEO plugin makes the same SEO data for all forum pages. So the search engines will see all your forums and topics as one page.

Only the built-in wpForo SEO functions can generate SEO titles and descriptions correctly for your forums and topics and these functions are disabled. Please exclude the forum page from this plugin. If it doesn't have an option to be disabled on forum pages please deactivate this plugin and use other SEO plugins, like Yoast SEO or so... Other SEO plugins don't disable wpForo SEO and don't work on forum pages, they only work on website non-forum pages, thus don't affect forum SEO.

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Tim — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:41:18 +0000

Hi,

Thanks.

OK, looks like it could have been a caching issue?

Tim

RE: Non logged in users seeing "subscribe"

Sofy — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:38:01 +0000

Hi Tim,

We've just checked your forum and there is no "Subscribe for new topics" & "Subscribe for new replies" links for guests. Watch video:

https://www.screencast.com/t/iIieQeFqF

There is a special permission for this purpose, you can disable the subscription for certain Usergroup.

Can subscribe

e.g. Usergroup is Registered and they have Standard Access in forum settings. You should navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Forum Accesses admin page, edit the Standard Access and uncheck the "Can subscribe" checkbox.