Hi, do you have a cache plugin by any chance installed?
Yes. Yes I do. I have WP-Supercache because it’s great and makes my pages load quite fast, considering all of the shortcode functions I’ve implimented.
So … what’s the fix that doesn’t involve uninstalling my cache plugin?
I don’t use that cache plugin. You will have to investigate further what files you can exclude from caching.
I’m not sure that what your bringing up has anything to do with the problem I’m mentioning. If the resource is being requested in the cached document, then it would also be requested in the NON-cached version as well. All caching does is take the resulting page and store it in a faster-to-access file.
In short, requests for a css file that’s located in the wp-admin folder would be requested from the very same folder regardless of wether the content that’s requesting it is cached on the server or not.
If I’m wrong, please explain.
Yes you are correct. I just mentioned the above because cache plugins sometimes causes issues. From what I have read in this forum you are one of very few that report issues like this. I suspect something else is causing this issue on your website.
The issue is VERY, VERY simple as explained in my initial post. This plugin stores it’s CSS files in the wp-admin directory. WordPress’s virtual robots.txt file blocks bots from indexing said directory, so when a bot finds a link in a page that’s within said directory, it’s blocked from reading it. That in turn throws a flag for the bot and has a negative impact on our SEO score.
There. Nothing more to be said. The “something else” is exactly what I’ve already mentioned and the source is the plugin itself.
Not trying to be a negative “wet sock” here but if you take time to think about the matter based on what I’ve reported already, you’ll soon catch up.
Yes I understand and I agree with you. My reply was somewhat of topic sorry about that. I must have been asleep 🙂
The plugin developer will have to investigate further your findings.
Thank you for reporting this issue.
Kind regards
