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I noticed that the entries in the database optimization page always remain 0, however mucht I change on the site. But I didn’t find an option for automatic database updating?

I didn’t look too well obviously: thought that a premium upgrade was necessary. But now I see that that is only to schedule it. Thanks for your reply, this will make my review 5 stars! ??

Fixed it, thanks!

Yes I am still experiencing the problem. Of course, since the plugin has not updated yest. This is the result with SSP 2.1.1. V 2.04 still worked well.
You can see it on the homepage of https://www.ambientblog.net/blog as well as on every blogpost page.
Please check asap if you want to see and let me know if you’ve checked it so that I can downgrade again because I don’t want to have these ugly squares up for too long.

Trying to find out how to use the (original theme ) CSS in the child theme so it will be independent of plugin updates. Should be a right way to avoid this (apart from the plugin itself not using double definitions)

I have the same issue with the Fluida Plus theme. Had to revert to previous plugin version to have the icons re-appear again. Must block this version update for now

PROBLEM SOLVED!
The misbehaviour was caused by another plugin (Facebook Pixel), that was recently installed but which I didn’t need anyway. Deactivating it solved the problem.
??

We’re narrowing it down now: the problem is not in the theme itself but in the child version.
I won’t bother you with the code for now, because I’ll dive into this first and try to find the difference myself.
Thanks for your help and suggestions

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by ambientblog.

OK, that’s great, how do I post the search.php? Just copy the code here in a post?
I’ll definitely contact the theme developers. Slight problem may be that they have a version update already but upgrading ruins my (child) version of the theme. Correcting that would probably be a lot of work so it’s either that or choosing a different theme.

(BTW I was wrong in my example that it should return only the first entry. In this test version of the blog (with a random theme TwentySeventeen) you see the correct search results, which is definitely more than one
https://abtest.vancooten.com/?s=Hassell)

It definitely is a theme issue. No problem when I switched themes. Strange thing is that this behaviour only started after the latest WP core update. Oh well.

Here’s a link: https://www.ambientblog.net/blog//?s=hassell

This should return only the first entry. Below that are all recent posts.
Have not tried a different theme yet, will do asap

Thank you, but Log Unique IP is not a solution for this problem; since I want to know what files users download if they download multiple files. And it would still count the robots.

Here’s my update after a week:

The robots.txt seemed to help – a bit… But every few days a new search engine robot (ignoring the robot.txt) seems to download all files almost simultaneously (easily recognisable in the logs – see example below). I remove these log entries manually, a bit of a job but it corrects the download counts.

Assuming that everyone using this plugin must have the same problem, I guess most people simply enjoy looking at download count that are much too high and not a realistic number.
Especially since most users will not use a robots.txt.
I’d love to hear from other users about this.

No, it’s not a protected download.. and I don’t really want to protect it since it is offered as a free download. I might setup a test page with a protected download if necessary, but for now (last 24 hr) it seems that the robot.txt might have helped.
I’ll keep you informed!

Bye
Peter

I’ll try a robots.txt to exclude the /sdm_downloads directory. See if that works.. Will let you know