tonybreadtag

Thank you so much both of you! I followed your instructions @shales within the plug in and it resolved the problem without ditching the plug in. I have not used the browser console previously but will investigate. I am a bit of a beginner with the intricacies of WordPress though I’ve been blogging for some time. I have resolved many problems to do with updates, even the ‘white screen of death’ but I still have a lot to learn. Again thank you so much. I was completely at sea not knowing how to begin. All the best!

Hi to you all

Thanks you very much for this help. I was all at sea!

I wish I had known that Siteground does daily auto back-ups of my site and how to access them. I am back on WP 6.1.1 and happy!

I’ll wait for a new 6.2.x upgrade before updating my site.

Now much wiser but also happier too.

Thanks again

All the best

Tony

Hi Thank you for the advice in the above two. I’m in Australia because of the time difference I’m just early morning. I’m sure it is 6.2 causing the problems and would like to roll it back to 6.1. I updated manually. I don’t have auto update on for WordPress turned on and when I go to Auto update on Siteground I can’t find any backup or restore. Is there another way around this?

I’m not sure what 30-60 minutes means as this has been going on for more than 13 hours.

I do have updraft plus which made a copy of the site not that long ago. Though I don’t know how to restore it. That is a possibility but I would prefer to go back to 6.1 through Siteground if at all possible.

Kind regards

Tony

As I said above I changed my memory limit up to ‘256M’ in WP-config.php at my Siteground host site from ‘128M’. This did not solve the problem. Are you saying I need to ask my host server for more?

I don’t know how to change the memory_limit value directly from the php.ini file. Is this any different?

I’m not really an expert here.

Thanks for getting back. I find losing my website with a WP upgrade or any other forced upgrade rather frightening.

Tony

Thanks very much for all your help. For me it has been incredibly useful. I’ve gotten over the hump in re-indexing individual posts but there are still a lot to go. Google allows me 15 to 17 per day.

I don’t know how paranoid about Sitemaps I’ll be from now on!

I don’t if there is any way to recover the six years of Indexing? My 3 EH Carr kept being cited by thousands of university students (high on appropriate 1st pages). Now they can’t find the articles and won’t for a considerable period.

Anyway, I much appreciate your support and kindly keeping on replying. It would have been much more stressful without your help and answering my stupid questions.

Very kind regards
Tony

p.s. Google sent me an email Re: [1-0340000031656] How was your Google Support Experience? with a survey link. I haven’t got anything against Google. But how bloody useless was their email. I’m putting dozens of requests to them. How would I know what 1-0340000031656 was? I mentioned this in the survey!

Cancel that last request!!! I tried https://breadtagsagas.com/post_tag-sitemap2.xml and got the same result. So I suppose I know the answer.

It is dangerous to let beginners loose!!!!

Good news and bad news!

Google for some reason crawled https://breadtagsagas.com/post_tag-sitemap2.xml yesterday and the result was Success. Hopefully, they’ll crawl more. I don’t know how to encourage them to crawl https://breadtagsagas.com/sitemap_index.xml next. Any suggestions?

About 23 September, I updated to WordPress 5.8.1 had a conflict with jetpack and had to erase it and reload it. Then broken links told me that most of my posts were broken. I dismissed all these but they were a sign of an actual problem. As well as losing my sitemap, there is probably something wrong with the bulk of my posts.

I did a test with Google I thought on https://breadtagsagas.com/what-is-history-5-eh-carr-historians-their-facts/ they responded:

While your site can be accessed via a browser, Googlebot is unable to access it. This could be due to a protection system that’s blocking unknown requests to your site. Please reach out to your hosting service provider to check what’s the underlying issue and fix it to avoid further access issues.

I’m not sure how that process is going but should try further as looking at the history post today Google says it seems OK and I’ve requested to Index it. I’ll do a few more checks on other posts and also contact my provider Siteground but I don’t think they would have changed anything around late September to cause this.

Another site suggested I input breadtagsagas.com/robots.txt to look for problems. I don’t know what this does or why, but got the response:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
This didn’t seem to be a problem to me (a naive non-expert) as I was supposed to be looking for Disallow Googlebot or * Disallow / meaning anything.

I am being stretched beyond my competence here and would appreciate any suggestions or advice. Or what I my next approach to Google should be.

Kind regards
Tony

The error appears mainly unable to Fetch! And one is reading XML file as HTML.

https://breadtagsagas.com/sitemap.xml Fetch HTTP Error:
500 Site could not be read. And the same for:

https://breadtagsagas.com/post-sitemap.xml
https://breadtagsagas.com/category-sitemap.xml
https://breadtagsagas.com/page-sitemap.xml
https://breadtagsagas.com/post_tag-sitemap.xml
https://breadtagsagas.com/sitemap_index.xml

This is only in error
https://breadtagsagas.com/attachment-sitemap.xml