First thanks for a great plugin!
I was wondering if the following functionality is somewhere possible and I missed it: I’m looking for something similar to the URL/slug monitor for pages: Whenever page’s link is updated, a redirect is being created, from its previous URL to the new updated one (awesome feature!). Similarly, is there a place to set that a redirection to the front-page (/) will be created when a page is being DELETED (not updated)?
So next time someone will hit example.com/deleted-page they will be redirected to example.com/ .
Thanks, Chen.
We’ve discovered today that a fair few of our sites blog posts have vanished, along with all graphic assets that were part of them. This has happened on multiple sites that are using the SG Optimiser plugin, with the ‘Scheduled Database Maintenance’ option turned on.
We’re almost certain it’s this option in the plugin, as if something had happened where the posts got deleted, the graphics that were uploaded with them would still be in the system. But they’re not. This is also the only plugin we’re running with permissions to delete anything.
We’ve simply turned this option off now on all of our sites as we can’t trust that risk on any other sites.
We’re not sure WHEN they got deleted, as we have posts from back in 2020, and 2019 that have been deleted, but only some of them.
Just wanted to flag for the devs to look at. Luckily for us we had a staging site we could copy and paste them over from, but for big sites without access to old posts, this could be a major issue!
]]>The deletion occurred after I had completed adding many extras for the German language, that is, I had created category pages, added in all the tags and hashtags in German, all done with German transliterated webpage URL slugs, added in breadcrumbs and category widget menus, added in many photo gallery widget entries and done the metadata. I estimate the deletion occurred between 0 and 17 hours after I finished this work.
I tried installing a backup of the website and it was successful for a time. I re-completed some of the work on the German language that the backup had not saved. Then I returned after a night break and the deletion had occurred again in exactly the same way. The only difference with the second deletion is the German version of post 3 has remained intact.
My web host suggested it may be an issue with the multilingual plugins. There were no problems before the German language work. The only changes in plugins, apart from updates, is an addition of the Classic Widgets plugin since WordPress 5.8 block widget editor did not work; could this cause incompatibility problems? I noticed my website theme Lodestar would not update https://3dresearchspecs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/screenshot-36.png , even though it was telling me to update it to the new version, I am not sure if this matters.
Can you suggest any fix before I go in to uninstalling plugins and changing themes?
Additions to problem explanation for Polylang
? Permalinks settings…W/P amin…Settings…Permalinks…Common Settings-Post Name
? Not using a static front page
? Polylang settings… URL modifications-The language is set from the directory name in pretty permalinks and -Remove language in pretty permalinks
Detect Browser Language is activated
Media is activatedI have just made my site live and new users and content are being created. I want to edit the site and make some changes so I have made a backup and will install a local WordPress software (Bitnami). I will edit it there and then upload the backup to the live site with the new changes.
However, If while I am editing the offline version, new posts are created, and then I upload a backup, will these new posts be deleted?
If this is the case, is there a plugin that can disable all new changes from going to the live site until I am done?
Kind Regards, Tomas.
]]>In this case, it’s not bad – because the posts are all mine – but if someone posts something offensive to the group and it gets pulled into my website: I want it to disappear from my site after I deleted it on FB
What can be done to make the plugin not pull deleted posts anymore?
]]>410 Done?
The Syntax of a 404 Not Found and a 410 Done are identical.
The difference is that 410 Done removes the URL from the crawl list ASAP and Google will not recrawl the URL unless it finds another link to it.
This is useful for removing 404’s from Google Search Console. Just set the URL to 410 till you see the Search Console switch from 404 to 410. Then remove the 410 and both 410 and 404 will be gone (provided you got rid of all links to the page).
Likewise, when you delete a 301 because you don’t need it anymore, throw a 410 till you see it in the Search Console, then delete it. Otherwise, the Search Console will give you a 404 for a long time (maybe measured in years!).
]]>I generated a sitemap using the Jetpack plugin and submitted it to Google via Google Search Console. My site has even started getting indexed with 7 pages and 1 post indexed so far. I noticed something very strange in the Image Sitemap, which is, it is also displaying sample/demo images from the sample/demo posts of the theme that I use and that’s when I have deleted those sample/demo posts. Since the posts have been deleted, the images associated with them should not appear in the Image Sitemap. Please note here that the Image Sitemap is showing “__trashed” (that seems double underscore; without quotes) written as part and at the end of the URLs of all deleted posts in the Page URL column.
A work around that comes to mind is delete all unused photos from the Media Library in my WordPress site, but this just does not sound like a solution, or does it?
I really like your sitemap generator and find that it’s much better and easy to understand and use than other, big sitemap generators. I hope there is a solution and I could continue using the sitemap generated by JetPack.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
]]>1) Images are not coming over even though they are all attached to posts or pages
2) The old deleted pages/posts are coming along for the ride
Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? I have had 20 different email correspondence with SS. They are very helpful but it looks like the problem is on my export file.
I have tried doing 11 different downloads to break up the site. That didn’t work. I’ve downloaded and switched it up, changed my theme, removed all plug-ins, tried downloading with plug-ins…everything. I even tried downloading uploads from my FTP and using S3 drive to change the links per a medium.com article. It didn’t work. This is hours of my life I’ll never get back.
Thanks so much!
]]>A few weeks ago, I replied on a post in a plugin’s support forum, suggesting the limitation should be mentioned in the documentation, as I had encountered the same issue. The author agreed it should be documented.
Yesterday, I got an email that someone else had responded to that post. But when I went back to that post, I discovered that it had been Resolved. Both my reply and the new one were deleted from the post’s thread.
Since I am unable to even edit my posts after a short time window, I had assumed that all replies and posts stick around forever. Obviously, that’s not true because the support forum author has some leeway to delete stuff. I was just wondering what the policy is.
I normally keep copies of threads where I may want to refer to the info later, but I didn’t do that with wordpress forums because I thought the content was permanent.
May I ask what the policy is?
Thank you for your help,
-mj lee