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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Form Validation of Email Addresses with PLUS (+) SymbolsWhat are you using to power form submissions with your WordPress site? I just tested this, and it seems to work fine with Contact Form 7 on a few of my sites.
EDIT: It also seems to work with Gravity Forms. I just created a brand new test install of WordPress, installed and set up a test form with Gravity Forms, and added it to a sample page. I was then able to successfully submit the form using the email address “[email protected]” with both CF7 and Gravity Forms.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by cleancoded.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Advise on image uplods to my server.This is absolutely possible. You’ll have to pay for the (separate) image hosting either way, but there are definitely advantages to uploading to and hosting images in the cloud.
The most popular option I’ve been asked to manage for clients is media uploading and hosting on Amazon S3.
Here’s a nice step-by-step tutorial for how this would be done:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/moving-wordpress-media-to-amazon-s3/
And another:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Traffic cut in halfHave sales/conversions/downloads/form submissions/engagement/anything else dropped by a similar factor? Also, looking at Jetpack analytics, are the keywords that are driving your traffic displaying your site as you’d expect in an incognito window/private browser? These data points would help determine if analytics are simply being underreported, or if traffic is really down.
Of course, if it’s an issue of analytics being underreported, it’s likely a code issue on your site or server — something blocking the analytics script from firing all the times and on all the pages it’s supposed to. Maybe additionally install Google Analytics, it can load in tandem with Jetpack analytics, and might help outline trends — both won’t be exactly the same, but it might help troubleshoot what analytics are missing, and from where, in Jetpack.
If it’s actually a traffic issue, take a look at the sources that typically drive traffic to see if there have been changes. Algorithm changes/organic search result placements, referral link changes and on-site content changes can all affect this.
Also take a look at your robots.txt to be sure you’re not all of a sudden blocking search engines from all or part of your site. Similarly be sure that the “Discourage search engines” checkbox is UNCHECKED at Settings > Reading. If that was accidentally checked, that will adversely affect search engine traffic.
Google Search Console can similarly help identify issues (and changes) in traffic.
Pressing F5 only clears your browser cache, so this datapoint is helpful in narrowing down what cache we need to focus on to resolve this issue.
Of your current stack, wp-rocket is most likely responsible for the browser caching. What about excluding the homepage from its cache? If you edit the homepage, you should see an option to select to “never cache this page.” If this is an acceptable solution, try selecting this and updating the page to see if the problem persists.
https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/54-exclude-pages-from-the-cache
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sorry, you are not allowed to access this pageIf replacing the tables seems to work, you could also try migrating the site files and database to a fresh WordPress install to see if that circumvents the issue.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image problemsPlease have a look at this quick video I just created, which walks through this update. In the video, I create a brand new WordPress install and create a test post with an uploaded image to show the default behavior of no link being added by default.
Then, I copy the code above, from my previous answer, and add it to the active theme’s functions.php file.
Then, I create a new test post, and upload an image to show the link behavior is updated to using the media file URL by default:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sorry, you are not allowed to access this pageTypically, this error occurs as a result of a security or permissions issue. This error can often be resolved by:
- If you have a backup file, you could always revert your site to the pre-error state
- Use WP_Debug to get a list of errors and see if anything stands out
- Review your server’s access and error log and see if anything stands out
- Double check your file permissions
Deactivate themes and plugins.You already tried thisManually reset your .htaccess file.You already tried this- Upgrade PHP to latest version
- Double check your site is using the correct database prefix
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image problemsTo update the default link type of images moving forward, you can do this by accessing your site options at yourdomain/wp-admin/options.php
Scroll down and find the image_default_link_type field. You have 4 choices:
- none – This links back to the post it was uploaded to
- file – This links to the image file in your wp-content/uploads folder
- post – This links back to the post it was uploaded to
- attachment – This links to an attachment post generated by WordPress for all image files uploaded to a post
You can also do this with a function in functions.php:
function mytheme_setup() { update_option('image_default_link_type', 'file' ); } add_action('after_setup_theme', 'mytheme_setup');Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: Google Calendar APIThere are many ways to do this, depending on your requirements and overall site functionality needed.
For a sophisticated WordPress solution, I would look into using WooCommerce and its “Bookings” extension, which includes integration capabilities with Google Calendar:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/google-calendar-integration/
If you’re looking for a quicker solution, Calendly can be embedded on any WordPress site pretty easily, and even the free plan provides integration with Google Calendar (reads “busy” events from Google as conflicts and pushes new events to Google).
More details: https://calendly.com/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image problemsYes, I would recommend removing these URLs, then saving this setting, and after that, images should upload to the intended, default file path.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Many errors after manual migrationEDIT: On further review of this issue, I am going to guess it’s a plugin or theme conflict. Have you installed anything new, or any recent updates made?
- This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by cleancoded.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image problemsHave a look at your media settings (/wp-admin/options-media.php) and permalink settings (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php), click “Save Changes” on both.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Traffic cut in halfMake sure that (1) the analytics code is still added to every page, as intended, and (2) that the traffic is indeed being recorded on every page. If using Google Analytics, go to the “realtime” report, and open the website in a new window so you can view both side-by-side. Click around on the site to be sure your visits are being recorded.
I’ve seen this kind of thing happen before, and it is usually because a new page template was created and was being used that did not include the Google Analytics JS code, and as a result, no traffic to those pages were recording traffic.
This can also happen if a new plugin was added (or an existing plugin was updated) that creates a JS conflict for some pages or area of the site, effectively not recording traffic for those pages with the conflict.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t login/link broken – HELP!!okay, then please try again to rename the theme ( rename the theme folder name and style.css file )
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Check with your hosting providers for last backup.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to put a link to the wallpaperThere aren’t enough details posted here yet to provide the best support. Are you asking how to add a link to a WordPress post or page pointing to an image you have uploaded to your media library?
If so, you can navigate to the media library by navigating to Media > Library from the WordPress backend. From there, click on the image you want to link to, and in the top-right section of the modal window that opens, next to URL, and copy the full URL shown.
Now, go to the post or page you want to add the link. Select the text where you want to add the link and then click the “Insert/Edit link” icon (looks like a chain). Paste the URL there, and then click the blue “Apply” button.
Then click “Update” to save changes.