[RavanH]

Hi Domenico,

– Limit to posts in these post categories: we are interested in indexing the news in all categories. Should we not select any category or should we select all of them?

Both will have the same effect: all posts in all categories will be included. The only difference is that with the approach of checking all categories, any new category will not be included (until you select that too). When no categories are selected, any new category will be included by default.

– Hierarchical post types: how does it work? Should we select for a news site?

That depends. Are you publishing all your news as Posts or do you use a custom (hierarchical) post type or Pages to publish your news? In that case, you’ll need the option to include Hierarchical post types.

We believe a small instruction manual would be useful to make the plugin usable by everyone, even non-technical people like us.

Agreed. We are working on improving our documentation while also preparing a big plugin overhaul at the same time.

In the mean time, please do not hesitate to ask anything you like on this forum, or via the support ticket system on this site 🙂

[RavanH]

Hi,

No the 48 hours limit is hard-coded and cannot be changed through a filter or setting. This is done because the 48 hour limit is a news sitemap specification. You can read on https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/news-sitemap

“Only include recent URLs for articles that were created in the last two days. Once the articles are older than two days, either remove those URLs from the news sitemap…”

I’ll consider this a feature request for the upcoming advanced version though 🙂

[RavanH]

Or with black background added to cover the red brown orange bands:

[coolclock skin="retro" radius="200"]
{
	"outerBorder": {
		"lineWidth": 100,
		"radius": 50,
		"color": "black",
		"alpha": 1
	},
	"largeIndicator": {
		"lineWidth": 10,
		"startAt": 75,
		"endAt": 95,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"hourHand": {
		"lineWidth": 10,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 70,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"minuteHand": {
		"lineWidth": 5,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 80,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"secondHand": {
		"lineWidth": 2,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 85,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"secondDecoration": {
		"lineWidth": 4,
		"startAt":  0,
		"radius": 8,
		"color": "white",
		"fillColor": "white"
	}
}
[/coolclock]

[RavanH]

{
	"largeIndicator": {
		"lineWidth": 10,
		"startAt": 80,
		"endAt": 100,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"hourHand": {
		"lineWidth": 10,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 75,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"minuteHand": {
		"lineWidth": 5,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 85,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"secondHand":{
		"lineWidth": 2,
		"startAt": 0,
		"endAt": 90,
		"color": "white"
	},
	"secondDecoration": {
		"lineWidth": 0,
		"startAt":  0,
		"radius": 10,
		"color": "white",
		"fillColor": "white"
	}
}

[RavanH]

Hi Steve, first: My appologies for this late reply. Somehow the messaging system seems to have failed and you did not get the help you needed at that moment.

Looking at your sample page, I see you have tried another clock solution in the meantime.

To answer your questions as much as possible:

The clock hands cannot be larger than 100% of the clock radius. To make the minute and second hands go past the minute/hour markers, you will need to move the hour markers inward instead.

Take a look at the clock named “Mister” at the end of https://premium.status301.com/knowledge-base/coolclock/skins/ for example. There, the second hand is further out than the hour markers. Or the clock “Machine”, fifth from the top, where the minute hand is further outside.

A custom skin with these parameters might be close to what you are looking for:

[RavanH]

Hi Jorge, both categories and tags at the same time is not possible. Your only solution would be to set it to Keywords and then (when creating your news posts) assign copies of the tags and categorie names to the (new) Keywords field.

[RavanH]

Hi Thiago, which version are you currently using?

[RavanH]

To make the hands fatter, increase the lineWidth value. The endAt value sets the length of each hand…

[RavanH]

Hi Ken, it looks like you found a bug. The noseconds parameter is ignored unless you explicitly set it to 1 (or true) like noseconds=1. It will be fixed in the upcoming release, but in the meantime just add =1 to hide the second hand.

To add a digital view to the clock, you can set the parameter showdigital="digital24+" but this cannot be done in combination with showdigital="date".

The font parameter applies only to the date/digital text and it must be in a very specific format to work. What are you trying to do? Make the text larger or in a different font face?

To change the hour and minute hand colors, you’ll have to create a custom theme. The following example is a very basic one with blue hands:

[coolclock skin="custom" radius="60" showdigital="date" noseconds="1" align="center" background_image="http://fremontcountydems.org/staging/wp-content/uploads/1872-2022-CANONCITY-DEMOCRATS.png" background_stretch="contain"]
{
  "hourHand": {
    "lineWidth":5,
    "startAt":-15,
    "endAt":50,
    "color":"#267EB9"
  },
  "minuteHand": {
    "lineWidth":3,
    "startAt":-15,
    "endAt":65,
    "color":"#267EB9"
  }
}
[/coolclock]

This is the result:

[RavanH]

Hi Ken, indeed we are planning a block to replace the widget for the next release. In the meantime there is the shortcode. PLease know that the widget is basically the same as setting parameters on the shortcode, so all that you created with the widget is (in theory) also possole with the shortcode.

Have you read https://premium.status301.com/knowledge-base/coolclock/shortcode/ ?

Please tell me what you wish to accomplish exactly so I can give you more specific instructions 🙂

[RavanH]

Hi, first activate the Stock Ticker option on Settings > Google News > Advanced. Then, edit the post where you wish to apply a stock ticker to and find on the right side (normally below Tags) the section Stock tickers. Add the stock as you would add a tag: type the code and hit Enter to create a new stock or select any proposed existing stock ticker. Use a comma to add multiple stocks.

A stock ticker must be prefixed by the name of its stock exchange, and must match its entry in Google Finance. For example: NASDAQ:TSLA would correspond with https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TSLA:NASDAQ (notice the search field at the top in contrast with the URL path)

[RavanH]

Ok and what if you include Video but not Structured Data?

[RavanH]

These Video and Structured Data post types, what plugin are they from? And what is the Structured Data post type for?

Could you please try removing these custom post types temporarily from the news sitemap to see if the stock ticker and keywords start working for regular Posts then?

[RavanH]

Ok, I could not find any of your public IP addresses in our block list but I did the requests from your site admin in our logs. They all received a 200 (OK) status response which does not explain the “Service Unavailable or Too many request” your are getting from your admin… In short: I cannot explain the error :/

Please download the latest version from your account page https://premium.status301.com/account/ (Downloads tab) and install that zip through the admin Plugins > Add new > Upload as a new plugin. You’ll get the choice to update the existing but older version, answer Yes 🙂

Our apologies for the inconvenience. Please let us know if this happens again at the next update!

[RavanH]

Hi, is this when trying to update from within your site admin? If so, can you share the domaine name or the IP address so I can verify it in the block list?

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