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They gave that terrific plugin to you for free, isn’t it okay that they have a small grey logo-link at the bottom?

I’m a capitalist.

I answered on the other thread, will repost here: Hasn’t happened since I last wrote a month ago, but since there’s trouble…I’m B-A-A-C-K!

Since I rarely get comments, I didn’t notice they were closed until I saw Akismet was finding no spam. Even they can’t get in. I suspect it’s spam that is triggering this somehow.

Wait – I just checked and Alison is right:
(1) Users must be registered and logged in to comment
(2) An administrator must always approve the comment
were also checked, and I never ever check them. How could spam get in our admin?

Just like rjhayton, it takes a few weeks to start happening again, so it’s very hard to test anything while waiting for several weeks. We’re not testtube scientists!

I wonder if this is helpful: I also noticed that on my Dashboard, my widgets for WP Devt Blog and WP News said the feed wasn’t working. Also, my Incoming Links feed is always broken – that’s broken in all my blogs. It used to be great before WP upgraded, but now that widget is useless.

Hasn’t happened since I last wrote a month ago, but since there’s trouble…I’m B-A-A-C-K!

Since I rarely get comments, I didn’t notice they were closed until I saw Akismet was finding no spam. Even they can’t get in. I suspect it’s spam that is triggering this somehow.

Wait – I just checked and Alison is right:
(1) Users must be registered and logged in to comment
(2) An administrator must always approve the comment
were also checked, and I never ever check them. How could spam get in our admin?

It tells me I have 2.8.4. It never told me this before – in Dashboard box. (yeah, I gotta upgrade.)

Not happening in my other blogs. Will read other threads on this.

I disabled all plugins for only an hour or so, and then re-enabled most. Did bulk edit, still okay.

I just realized I didn’t reactivate feedburner or google analytics plugins, though! I don’t think either are particularly useful to me – especially analytics. So I just reactivated only feedburner.

I’ll report back if that makes a difference.

I think it can make a difference where you are when you turn the computer off – I don’t shut down the pages, let Firefox do it. Sometimes the next day I have to log in again, but mostly not.

Alison, thanks, that saved me some time! And my Discussion Settings appear to be stable – no more changes that I didn’t do!

I just don’t understand why this is only affecting a couple of us…

rjhayton, I just reread all these and I have Ipower, too. But my other blogs are okay.

My theme is Dansette and my blog is here, if this helps: https://opedcartoons.com/.

I think it’s clear that it’s a WordPress problem, since the Discussion module that appears on your screen at the bottom of every Edit Post you write (next to Blog Author, Custom Fields, etc) is totally gone. I had to go into Screen Options to make it reappear.

My concern is why or how did all these changes happen to comments/discussion without me doing it???

Now I’m enabling comments one by one in each post – so annoying.

Same thing just happened to me!!

“Users must be registered and logged in to comment “
“An administrator must always approve the comment ”

Were ALWAYS unchecked for me – I allow anyone to comment. And now are both checked. What could change our dashboard like this??

Actually, the Discussion Module under each post is missing, as well. My other blogs are okay, so it’s not the server. And it’s not a theme, as no other theme works on this blog, either.

I haven’t added any plugins. Help?

Think about this, Joe – what % of people go to Google images to download, or just look? I suggest that at least 50% of people want to download. I’m a cartoonist, and lazy bloggers love to lift a cartoon (or a photo) – takes up a lot of words!

Also, my customers are editors, not readers. I’m happy for people to read and enjoy my cartoons, but I think it’s fair that I request they not steal them, and do my best to not get them indexed.

As far as the timing, it takes Googlebot Images a long time to index images, vs text. I do not believe that I’m unique in which it indexes first – I have 4 blogs, I’m embarrassed to say, and I pay a lot of attention to when people find posts. Honestly, it’s images it indexes first. Think of Google without them – it wouldn’t be half the monster it is.

Thanks a lot, Joe! That helped. It turns out Google can still find me, but I forgot that they write a robots (no-index) form themselves for you on the Tools, if you want, so I’m using that one now.

What most people don’t seem to know about SEO – even the big guys- is that images are crawled and indexed faster than anything out. Within a couple of hours. Text takes much longer – 3 to 4 days. Still, happy Google is no longer stealing my images! ??

I make a living from my cartoons, Joe, and the new and worse Google has enlarged the thumbnails on their images by twice as much and they do NOT lead people to your site! You can lift the image without even going to the site – which is how Google wants it, of course. Try it. That’s not okay with most people. And yes, I have a watermark, but I don’t care if it’s subtle.

Did I do the robot text right, at least?

That page is broken and can’t be fixed in this version. I had to go back and download the previous version, 1.6.12.1, which works fine, as does the Admin page there. Now I’m cautious as to whether to get new versions of plugins or not.

It fixed itself.

Same here. 4 blogs, updated WP edition, all say this in the Incoming links box in the Dashboard. Help?

Thank you, darrellonsite! I had done that, but great to get confirmation.

I also put /images/ instead of directory – not sure what directory means. Also, to help someone else, I read somewhere that it’s best to have a line space between the directions (disallow, etc), and the sitemap line, so I did that.

Let’s see how many images Google can take from me now…

Same with me. I want to disallow images.