alex997

Good stuff! News to me on the auto redirect. How/where do you set what you want, non-www or www?! I haven’t see that…

As far as I am aware the author can only be a wordpress registered user.

Why cant you create the guest user yourself, you then publish the blog post and just select the user from the author drop down? That’s what I do ??

Under: Settings > Reading > Post Page

Do you have a blank static blog page created and pointed to?

Settings > General > Site Title

I had to manually add this to my .htaccess file to achieve such redirects, never seen it done automatically!

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Try it with your domain…

If you install Jetpack plugin then that has a most popular posts and pages widget which you can add to your siderbar/footer. In the widget it says:

Top Posts & Pages by views are calculated from 24-48 hours of stats. They take a while to change.

I use a premium theme myself (Avada) which has it’s own version of this. Have a look at my blog to see if that is what you are after.

First thing I would do is regenerate all permalinks by selecting ‘default’, then save changes, then going back to ‘post name’ or whatever you had it at before.

If that doesnt work then time to delve into the .htaccess file.

The other thing worth ruling out it to do a full clear of all browsing data as a redirect rule may being cached in your browser. I have had nightmares with this in the past myself…

I typically get that when a page I am trying to access no longer exists.

Looking at your link though it all seems to be working to me. So either you have fixed it yourself or perhaps you need to clear you browser cache.

Per my understanding…

Posts are ‘archived’ into date buckets (month and year). They aren’t moved or re-tagged as archive items, they just appear in the relevant archive page as soon as they are published with the publish date associated with the archive data.

This only applies to posts not pages. So ALL pages should display indefinitely unless you delete them.

Start by installing Yoasts SEO plugin and that does 90% of the SEO for you. Obviously SEO is a much bigger field than just automation, so I would recommend you go onto Moz’s site for SEO tutorials and great information.

Perhaps you are running a Redirection plugin? WordPress by default does not set up 301 redirects that I am aware of.

I personally run a plugin called ‘Redirection’ that if you change a post address from within WordPress admin console it automatically creates the 301 for you. However, I changed a page this week and it didnt seem to pick that up, so perhaps it only does posts?!

Anyway, you can set up the 301 redirect in your .htaccess file if you have access by something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 301 /old-page-name/ https://yourwebsite/new-page-name/
</IfModule>

Don’t forget that browsers can cache redirects and if you get it wrong the first time via a typo or something then the only way to clear the cache is to do a full browser cache delete all.

Hope this help!

Nevermind – I believe this was platform related as it didn’t affect my live server upgrade, only my local test one.

Would you mind pointing me towards the exact steps needed to “php5-hash needs to be added to depeendencies for the WordPress 4 port”?

Hmmm, just downloaded both files manually and the only difference is no wp-content directory ie. the no-content.zip leaves the existing directory alone.

So I don’t think that could be my issue.

Banned users is still not working for me either. I have 217.23.7.144 (semalt) getting through every day!