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Simon wrote:If I right click on the image to open the link in a new window, I get a new page – for example: https://simongude.com/Street-Photography/Unobtrusive-Moments/IMG_5539/

Simon wrote:Now I'm wondering where I can change or hide the information displayed on this page. I am aware that the title, date and subtitle on this page come from the image's EXIF information.

.file-exif {
  display: none;
}

Simon wrote:Great, thank you very much for this valuable tip. I actually only noticed the pages when I optimized my website for SEO and saw which metadata they were indexed with on Google and Bing.

Simon wrote:I removed the subheader and the date using .subheader and .date according to your template. However, this does not work for the image landing page with .title, as it affects all pages.

.x3-file .title {
 display: none;
}
.x3-file .subheader {
 display: none;
}
.x3-file .date {
 display: none;
}

Simon wrote:I also noticed that the alt= value in the <img>-tag and the <data-title>-tag are fed from the EXIF data. Is there another way to define these two values?

mjau-mjau wrote: Keep in mind, when hiding data and subheader like that, you are also hiding them from other pages, although it's likely you aren't displaying those elements on other pages anyway (X3 "pages" actually have context/settings to choose what elements should appear). To make sure you only hide these elements for these types of pages, you can use

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.x3-file .title {
 display: none;
}
.x3-file .subheader {
 display: none;
}
.x3-file .date {
 display: none;
}

mjau-mjau wrote: I'm actually not sure why you would want (or need) to hide the TITLE on these pages, but there is nothing wrong in hiding it.

Simon wrote:Google and Bing like to index pages primarily using the <h1> tag. This means that my pages are indexed with different metadata. Since the <h1> tag comes from the EXIF data, removing it is the first step. The second and more time-consuming step is to re-upload all images with corrected EXIF data.

Simon wrote:In the end, it's all about SEO and page indexing, and that happens in full text, not the way we humans view pages. Hence my questions and follow-up questions.

Simon wrote:Do you have any tips on how I can remove the x3-hover-scale icon? It's probably hidden in the x3-hover-icon-primary class, but removing it in the same way as in the example doesn't work yet.

.x3-file .image-container:before {
  display: none;
}

Simon wrote:By the way, the create_image_sitemap.php page is no longer up to date. Google has long since stopped allowing manual uploads of sitemap.xml, which is why the ‘Submit to Google’ link produces a 404 error. Nevertheless, sitemap.xml is still very important!

Simon wrote: a few weeks ago, I changed the title of my website, including in the EXIF data of my images.

What puzzled me was the fact that Google indexed pages with both the new and old titles.

Simon wrote:What I later found out is that there is hard-coded data based on the EXIF data of the images in the gallery in the page.json file.

Simon wrote:This information is written to page.json when settings are saved in the backend. Unfortunately, saving does not update existing information based on the latest EXIF data of the images. This leads to inconsistencies in the metadata.

Simon wrote:At the same time, I came across the “image landing page,” which, however, uses current EXIF data to display titles, etc. As a result, Google had indexed pages with both the old and new titles, which totally confused me and led me to the questions described here.

Simon wrote:A quick note about sitemap.xml and create_image_sitemap.php. This page contains a link labelled ‘Submit to Google’ (https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=htt ... itemap.xml), which no longer works because Google has discontinued this ‘ping function’. This was just a note to indicate that this function is obsolete.