constangiann

Hello,

And many thanks for your immediate response. I followed you suggestion and checked the plugin I installed most recently and that was it … It was the Async Javascript plugin and by my mistake I had enabled an option for the jquery method and set it on defer. I excluded jquery from async and defer and now it seems that my calendar works fine again!

You were just to the point. Could you check back if i still get this error you wrote about now? Since I don’t know how to check it myself.

And one last question. Was the action to disable bootstrap on front-end right? Should I leave it this way?

Many thanks
Constantenia

If you are right then I think my problems are solved and you helped me a lot with this.

I want to thank you so much for your interest and advice. It was like having a second eye with me. I was really anxious about the rebuild (still am) since my live site is ranking very good for years.

Google Pagespeed Insights brought me to this situation but I think it was for good. My score was 10-15% for mobile (with all the image optimization and caching) and now is 60% without having done anything yet (image optimization, caching etc). I think it will be much faster when I finish.

And it will be much easier to do refreshes of the website when I need to. I have seen now how Gutenberg works (I was afraid of it and still had Classic editor with WP Bakery) and I believe it is a better option.

Thanks for all
Constantenia

Hello @bcworkz,

And thanks for everything. I didn’t reply earlier because I was finishing my staging. Yesterday bluehost deployed my staging to live and deleted my staging. It seems to be running and now my only concern is Google.

It seems that even now that the staging is gone when i put something of my staging sub urls in a browser like:

https://www.psychologos-giannopoulou.gr/staging/biografiko/

then it opens the live url:

https://www.psychologos-giannopoulou.gr/biografiko/

meaning there is some kind of redirect left somewhere. They are investigating and I am waiting for their email.

As for bluehost it seems that yesterday when I talked to them there was no robots.txt at all! Someone had deleted that without letting me know! This means: 1)someone from them created a robots.txt with my staging site 2)i got indexed 3)someone else told me the first robots was wrong and added some denial code and 4)someone else deleted the robots.txt without letting me know.

Not very good for customer care ??

Could you check if my running website is running and non blocking search engines right now?

My only concern is that and the redirects thing. I hope Google doesnt punish me for something which is not my fault.

What do you think?

Thanx
Constantenia

Thank you so much for your help,

I think you saw that because I unchecked the “discourage” setting for a few days thinking it was maybe that preventing the access to robots.txt. I checked it again.

Could you see again if it is now noindex?

As for Yoast SEO. When I check the settings->reading button Yoast puts a wide red notification at the top of wordpress saying:

“Important SEO Issue: Blocking access to the robots file. If you want search engines to show this site in their results, you must go to your Reading Settings and uncheck the box for Search Engine Visibility. I don’t want this site to show in the search results.”

So I assume I shouldnt do anything else…It seems global wordpress reading settings override Yoasts settings.

I am quite confused but I decided to finish my work quickly deploy and delete the staging. I don’t know what else to do.

As fot the robots.txt are you 100% sure? I am afraid to put some code there by myself. Not editing the file. That is easy for me. But putting code against what they put so I take the responsibility if it isnt right and the site access isnt blocked.If you are right then bluehost agents are dangerous.
??

They told me many times that the robots.txt they created is ok and I dont need to check the reading wordpress button and that I wont get indexed for sure.

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Hello @bcworkz,

And thank you for you response. I am in the middle of a big(?) problem right now. Unfortunately it seems I already got indexed after a few days (checked
site:https://www.psychologos-giannopoulou.gr/staging/ ).

I contacted bluehost cause they made my staging and I had told them 1000 times that my only concern is not to get found on google. The answer of an agent (I have talked with about a dozen so far) is that they had made a mistake with the robots.txt and hadnt included some denial code. He told me he added that yesterday but I dont know what to believe and where I stand right now.

I also checked at this:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en&ref_topic=6061961&visit_id=637313942883646665-3424507720&rd=1
which got me a little more confused.

Is robots.txt a good method to block indexing or I should just have the “discourage etc” button checked on wordpress?

What am I supposed to do know? Run like a fool and delete staging website before things get worse? (they assured me that from yesterday it wont get indexed any more but I dont believe them). And of course forget about my rebuilding of the site?

Or believe them, keep it, finish my rebuilding at the staging site as soon as possible (within a few days), deploy and then delete the staging one and for all??

Do I need to make further actions with google? Or just deleting will let it go…I dont want to add it to my properties on search console and things get more complicated.

??

I only wanted something simple and now I feel like I am doomed because of the mistake of bluehost and dont know what to do

Are things bad? I dont know

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Hello @vmarko,

I really feel I shouldn’t be in the position of doing all that stuff manually. Especially not knowing exactly what I’m doing ?? (not knowing 100% what I am deleting or modifying, not being a developper) and that is a big minus of the plugin.

Things everywhere in the world are getting easier and simpler and w3tc seems way more complicated than it should be for the average user. You should definetely consider this as a team.

I am saying that with all the respect to a very good tool that w3tc is. I used it for 3 years with no problems and good results. I don’t know if I reactivate it again because of all this stuff. I start to believe that it is not for me. It is for developpers only. If not some things should change.

I also don’t know if that is the best caching plugin out there. But I know that you helped me so much answering all my questions one by one. I now feel confident to do what I have to do. And that is a big plus for you personally and your plugin.

Thank you for your time and help and hope everything goes well and won’t have to bother you again

Constantenia

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Thank you,

1. So now that I have not done these things but I have deactivated the plugin (I dont rembemer doing purge cache for example), what is the proper procedure? I reactivate it and do what yoy wrote in the order you wrote it? Is everything going to be ok or are there dangers I should be aware of?

2. I see 3 object-cache files in staging folder:
/public_html/staging/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/wp-content/object-cache.php
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/plugins-old/w3-total-cache/wp-content/object-cache.php
and
/public_html/staging/wp-includes/class-wp-object-cache.php

I delete all of them or not the last?

3.I see 4 advanced cache:
/public_html/staging/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/wp-content/advanced-cache.php
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/plugins-old/w3-total-cache/wp-content/advanced-cache.php
/public_html/staging/wp-content/bp/advanced-cache.php-old
/public_html/staging/wp-content/bp/advanced-cache.php

bp must be a backup folder bluehost created when they made my staging. Delete all?

4. 2 dbcache:

/public_html/staging/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/inc/options/dbcache.php
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/plugins-old/w3-total-cache/inc/options/dbcache.php

delete them both?

5.i see one staging/wp-content/upgrade folder which is empty and another one cache folder and another wt3-config (also in wp-content). These are the ones I should delete?

6.I see these .htaccess files. Which one are you referring to?:
/public_html/staging/.htaccessol
/public_html/staging/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/.htaccess-bkp1
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/uploads-old/woocommerce_uploads/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/updraft/uploads-old/wc-logs/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/bp/cache/minify/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/bp/cache/page_enhanced/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/.htaccess
/public_html/staging/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/.htaccess

The one in the root folder doesnt have any W3TC in it right now (the plugin is deactivated).

7.I dont use CDN but I used optimole an image plugin which said it used some kind of CDN to serve images. I deactivated that too not knowing what causes the problems. It is still deactivated. Do I have to do something concerning that? I see images now. Just other strange things having to do with page layout.

8.Last but not least!!!
I am on a staging environment and still on a “trial and error” “safe” mode…What happens when I finish my work and decide to deploy? What is the procedure then? Just copy the staging to the livesite? Or should I first deactivate the plugins at the live site too and then deploy???

Thank you

Tim,

Thank you for your interest. I’ve come to a conclusion that my google pagespeed problems are mainly from my theme-builder and a couple of plugins so I decided to do a rebuild of the whole website (on a staging environment for now) using Astra theme and mainly if not exclusively Gutenberg blocks (my site is pretty simple to be slow and I think I can do it). I am in the middle of it but I hope that settles the issue with the header too :). What do you think?

Thanx again

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Strange! I don’t see a header.php in my “/wp-content/themes/” folder. The header I posted is at my “/wp-content/themes/stockholm” …Stockholm is my parent theme . I am using a child theme along with W3 total cache …how did you find that? where?

I assume that was yours right?

I am getting a 98% at gt metrix and other sites but just a 25% at google pagespeed insights mobile and I am so frustrated…any help would be appreciated. I am not a developper.. Just having my own site which goes pretty well for about 3 years now but google suddenly changed algorithms and announced they are going to drop down rankings if we dont meet the pagespeed insights criteria

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