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# Duane Storey

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 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Elevate SEO] The Best!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-best-1650/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-best-1650/#post-12322306)
 * Thanks for the kind words. And yes, I’m proud of Elevate. I have struggled getting
   people to try it since most people have a set it and forget it attitude with 
   SEO and most don’t want to mess with the plugin they are currently using. But
   if your videos draw any people towards it, I hope they will find Elevate useful
   and powerful.
 * Elevate works fine with Fast CGI – unfortunately one of the detection routines
   I use during the wizard can’t obtain any information when Fast CGI is being used–
   but it’s just the detection routine and not the plugin. So anyone using Fast 
   CGI can use the plugin fine (I use it on all my sites).
 * Thanks for using Elevate – and appreciate you including it in your videos.
 * Cheers,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11325370)
 * Ok, marking this one as resolved, but if you still feel like there is another
   issue, please just open a new ticket. Thanks.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11310085)
 * On the “Search” settings page, you can enable “Allow editing the index status”,
   and it should show up on each post.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11310031)
 * So the original error is fixed then, i.e. private pages are being excluded now?
 * You said some pages are marked no-index, and they are still in the sitemap? Are
   they marked that way in Elevate? If so that’s another issue I’ll address.
 * Thanks,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11309847)
 * If the admin there is a top level Elevate SEO menu at the very top – you should
   be able to regenerate the sitemap there.
 * Let me know if you need help.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11307259)
 * Can you update to version 1.2.1 and see if that improves anything?
 * If not, perhaps you can set me up with an account and I can debug locally.
 * Thanks,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11264316)
 * Hmm, looking at the code actually I’m surprised that’s the case. Can you give
   me an example of a post on your site?
 * Thanks,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Private pages in sitemap.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-pages-in-sitemap/#post-11264310)
 * Hi,
 * Yes, that would be a bug. I’ll push out an update this weekend I hope with that
   fix. Thanks for letting me know.
 * Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/#post-11234512)
 * Great! Glad you found the solution – thanks for posting it for others.
 * Cheers,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/#post-11228332)
 * Are there any PHP errors being generated on the site?
 * When I try now I get:
 * Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access \@backend on this server. Additionally,
   a 400 Bad Request error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument 
   to handle the request.
 * So not sure if it’s because WordPress is throwing an error for robots.txt or 
   something with the varnish config isn’t allowing the request through. I’m happy
   to debug this, just not sure where to start as on a normal WordPress install 
   robots.txt works fine on all my test installations.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/#post-11226671)
 * Hi,
 * It’s not a manual file, it’s just generated on demand from within WordPress. 
   In theory any file that doesn’t exist will end up being processed from within
   WordPress.
 * You can see on my site – [https://lindellwebstudios.com/robots.txt](https://lindellwebstudios.com/robots.txt)
 * That file doesn’t exist, Elevate is just outputting it via a hook. So it’s strange
   that’s not working for you. Can you tell me a bit more about your hosting environment?
   Where is it hosted? Is it Apache or Nginx?
 * Thanks,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robots-txt-8/#post-11199955)
 * Hi,
 * Can you possibly share your website URL with me? What plugins do you have installed?
 * Cheers,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Visual Tab broken and other issues.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/#post-10984523)
 * Hi Glenn,
 * This should be resolved in 1.1.6.
 * Cheers,
    Duane
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Visual Tab broken and other issues.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/#post-10941548)
 * You can send me an email at my first name and last name together (no space) at
   gmail. Thanks.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Elevate SEO] Visual Tab broken and other issues.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Duane Storey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duanestorey/)
 * (@duanestorey)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-tab-broken-and-other-issues/#post-10935315)
 * Hmm,
 * I’d probably have to debug this locally. Any chance you’d be willing to set me
   up with a temporary account to see what’s going on in the back end?
 * Outside of that can you possibly send me a list of all the plugins you have installed?
   Probably is a conflict with one of them.
 * Cheers,
    Duane

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