warning still on, but have “Discourage SE from indexing site” box UNCHECKED

  • Resolved llilly0

    (@llilly0)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    (Not sure you need a link to the dashboard, let me know if you do) my site is here though.
    I launched my site today and this warning is still on my wp site dashbord:
    Warning: All In One SEO Pack has detected that you are blocking access to search engines. You can change this in Settings > Reading if this was unintended.
    Update Reading Settings Remind me later

    On my wp site dashboard I knew I’d have to uncheck the Visibility box after deactivating the Under Construction plugin in order to make my site live. So I did that straight away. However, it is still displaying the above Warning. I keep refreshing and pushing the save changes button on the Reading page but the warning is still there.
    To clarify: In Settings-Reading I have the SEO visibility ‘discourage search engines from indexing this site’ box UN-Checked. So it should have taken care of all this, right? Does it take 24 hours for changes to take effect?
    Also, I noticed that in my wp.com account dashboard in Marketing-traffic: sitemaps – I can’t turn on the ‘Generate XML sitemaps’ So I wonder if there’s a connection?

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  • Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    @llilly0 This sounds like aggressive caching of the backend by your server / hosting provider.

    Once that setting under Settings > Reading has been unchecked, the notice should go away.

    If you’re able to access the MySQL database via your hosting provider control panel then you can check in the wp_options table for aioseop_notices and just delete that.

    Thread Starter llilly0

    (@llilly0)

    Thanks I will look into that – sounds easy enough now that I know where to go. And you’re right, this hosting company has special cached settings related to their systems.
    Curious – is this a vital issue? If I did nothing, what are the implications?
    Thank you again for your time and answers.

    Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    @llilly0 It’s not vital, as long as you know that setting is unchecked then it’s just the fact that there’s an annoying notice showing.

    Thread Starter llilly0

    (@llilly0)

    Thank you – all the best.

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