DabidK

Never mind–after three hours, the problem inexplicably resolved itself for some reason that I cannot fathom and WP allowed the update. Regardless–problem solved!

I’m not sure if you saw in the original post, but I already used that plugin before posting. It claims “There is no issue. Continue with your WordPress Update”. Even so, trying to update does nothing, so I don’t know what else could be the problem or what to do. =/

Thanks Steve! I didn’t realize it was a Bluehost-installed plugin. I’ll reach out to them about it.

Upon studying the File Manager more, I can see that whatever this Endurance-Page-Cache thing is, it has created a whole new directory for every single post AND photo that I’ve ever uploaded to one of my domains. So I can see WHY I have over 12,000 directories now, but I have no idea why it’s happening or how to stop it/fix it.

UPDATE 9/2/2016 7:31PM EST: Sites are suddenly all working totally fine. Whatever problem was occurring may have resolved itself. Is it possible for me to mark this issue as resolved and reopen if the issue reoccurs in a couple hours/days, or would I need to start a new thread?

Thanks for any help that anyone reading provided!

Sorry, I somehow forgot to put a link in the post!! Oy. Here’s one of the sites: https://bit.ly/BrickToyNews

If you need any more information let me know, please. And thank you for the attention and help!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by DabidK.

Hi Tobias–

I’m trying to create image map tables and I just can’t get it to work properly. I run Weaver II theme with a 640 width and split sidebars. No matter what I do, the table wants to expand itself and run under the right sidebar. I’ve tried adding CSS code to change this but nothing I do works.

I’m not good with CSS, but here’s what I’ve added:

.tablepress-id-2 td img {
border: none;
padding: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.tablepress .column {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress .column {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-1 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-1 {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-2 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-2 {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-3 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-3 {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-4 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-4 {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-5 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-5 {
padding: 0;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-6 {
width: 20px;
}

.tablepress-id-2 .column-6 {
padding: 0;
}

But on the actual page the sixth column still insists on running under the right sidebar and all of my commands about column width and padding are ignored. I use Firefox as my browser.

My images are all only 60px wide and there are 6 of them, so they should be able to fit into a 640px width with space left over, but there’s just too much padding and the table is resizing itself to be larger than 640px. I can only see 5 of the 6 columns as a result.

I’m pretty not good at this. Can you help me? =/

The test page I’m using is: https://www.animetoynews.com/tablepress-test/

Also, what CSS code can I use to manipulate all tables at once instead of just one?

Got it, thank you!

I put that into the custom CSS box but it doesn’t seem to do anything–there’s still a big whitespace at the top.

The code is the Custom CSS box I have now is:

#site-title, #site-description {visibility:hidden;}
display: none;

Hey Jeseter–

Thanks so much for the advice! Unfortunately, my coding skills are pretty poor. Is there a specific place I need to insert that code in the wp-config.php file? As soon as I downloaded the file and inserted the code and re-uploaded it, it crashed my blog completely. I was smart enough to save a copy of the original beforehand to reupload and get everything running, but I don’t know how to add those functions without killing my blog?

Thanks so much for the help! I’m getting so, so frustrated as time goes on and things don’t get better…

In case an example helps:

By clicking the “Link Thumbnails to: Attachment Page” button on this main post page, I created this page: https://www.toyreviewdaily.com/2012/03/15/daily-toy-review-75-iron-man-the-avengers-movie-mini-muggs-action-figure-hasbro/20120315-124521-jpg/

I turned off the “Link Thumbnails to: Attachment Page” button on the gallery for the main post page, but the Attachment Page still exists and is still google indexed. I have over a thousand images turning up as Attachment Pages now even though there no longer exists any way to get to those pages through the main posts, and I don’t know how to delete the Attachment Pages.

The Media Library in my WordPress Dashboard will let me delete the images themselves, but doesn’t even acknowledge that Attachment Pages exist anywhere. All I want is to keep the images and get rid of the Attachment Pages that have been created for each one.

Can such a thing be done?

Alright, I will definitely try that, revium!

Thank you so much for the help!

I’m still new to how search rankings work and such–if I go back and delete/cut back the articles I’ve posted to other sites and message boards, will Google eventually pick up on that and re-credit the content to my site once it’s not elsewhere? Or once they’ve assigned it to someone else, am I pretty much screwed?

Under Crawl Stats for “pages crawled per day”, it shows that earlier in March Google was crawling over 600 pages per day, and it looks like it’s crawling over right around 400 at the present. I’m not sure what that means exactly, though, since the pages were already indexed?

“Kilobytes downloaded per day” was over 17,000 earlier this month and is now around 9,000. I’m not familiar enough with that to know what it means, though.

“Time spent downloading a page” has been constant for the last few months with no fluctuations.

The only other potential issue I can think of is that I do post the full-text of my reviews on various message boards with links back to my site so that no one is forced to click through for information (example: https://thundercatslair.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8061), and Google search is sometimes retrieving those forum threads now instead of the actual articles from my site, but that’s never been a problem before. Everything on my site should be the canonical version of the content, so I don’t know if posting the information elsewhere could be an issue.

Thanks for the continuing assistance, revium. I’m not good with these things so I’m sort of flying blind here.

I don’t think it can be an issue of the site not being deep-linked or interlinking. The articles getting the most retrievals from Google had always been the older ones, and Google search had always retrieved the actual articles up until last week. Now it still gets you to the articles, if you just through hoops and click pages that have links to the articles.

However–what constitutes an “unnatural link”? I have affiliate links on my site, as it’s a review website and includes a “Where to Buy” section with links to things like Amazon and Ebay (example page: https://www.toyreviewdaily.com/2012/03/20/daily-toy-review-80-thunderball-of-the-wrecking-crew-marvel-legends-series-2-variant-2012-action-figure-hasbro/). It’s never caused a problem before, but that’s the ONLY thing I can think of. All of my links are clearly marked and I absolutely never try to mask or mislead anyone. How could I tell if Google was marking a page as “Spammy”?

My site is hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools, but unfortunately there’s nothing helpful there.

I have no messages of any kind in the “Messages” section, there are zero errors, and the only “warning” of any kind that I have on the whole site is 8 warnings attached to my post-sitemap (visible at https://www.toyreviewdaily.com/post-sitemap.xml).

The warnings don’t make any sense to me at all, though, as the only description I get is the line “Sitemap contains [8] urls which are blocked by robots.txt. Mar 19, 2012
Value: https://www.reviewstarwars.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif”

My robots.txt is set to allow EVERYTHING to be found in searches, that URL isn’t even part of my site, and I can’t find it anywhere within the sitemap. I don’t understand what it is or why it’s there.

Even so, these are only 8 warnings, and 150+ articles are messed up and not being retrieved by Google. I don’t even know if that’s the issue.

Any expert advice, anyone?