JamesBB

THANKS A LOT Douglas!!!
Well we feel sometimes quite silly opening a topic for such an easy solution but I promise I searched before posting…
Following your answer, I just checked “Author” in the Screen Options and it worked perfect.
Don’t know why I didn’t think about it. So obvious…when u know how ??

THANKS again and hope it might help a few other guys too!

Cheers!
Jamy

THANK YOU Andrewjmarino for your answer and advice!
Yes I guess you’re right CF7 looks nice BUT doesn’t seem that clear as far as we need to search for simple/basic options. I imagine there are more than the 2 of us struggling to use it…
Anyway I noted your advice for “Fast Secure Contact Form”. In between I also had chosen another way for my forms. I just use a FREE version of an online service. Cannot be simpler. There is a great documentation but I did not need it, so simple.
Anyone can also have a look here: https://www.formsite.com/

You’re welcome!
True that I tried it with a 2.9.2 version so you must be right. Although I have other sites with WP latest v3.0.5, I will still wait for Yoast to release an official version.
Just need a bit of patience and I am sure Yoast will soon get us an awesome (and reliable) plugin ??
What I like with WordPress SEO is that it includes the breadcrums, Meta tags, etc…NICE!!! ??

Hi!

Several topics have been opened about WordPress SEO as the plugin does contain some bugs. Yoast the author seems to be informed and reminds people that his plugin is still in Beta.
Hope he can go forward quickly as if all functions work correctly it should be an awesome plugin. Other plugins from Yoast are all running well so I guess it is just a question of time.
Now as I didn’t have any answer and could only find open topics I decided to go back to All in One for the moment and wait. Sorry I cannot give you more help.
Here is a link related to our experience: https://perishablepress.com/wpseo-vs-aioseo/

José the plugin’s author kindly gave me the answer by email.
For other guys with the same concern, here is his answer:
“Greetings!
The main purpose of WP PLS is to parallelize the connections when your browser tries to download the images from the server.
Even having your images on a separate domain, they are all being downloaded from a single domain, thus, only being able to download 2 at a time.

This is where my plugin comes in. It will, under your https://www.myimages.com domain use subdomains to parallelize the download efficiency. (like https://img1.myimages.com, https://img2.myimages.com, etc…)

To be honest I think I never tried the plugin under the specifications you’re deploying. In theory it should work ??

José P. Airosa,
Software Engineer”

THANK YOU José for your great help!!!

Thanks Ahmed for your comment!
True that situation inside China is a bit special due to our great national firewall ??
Anyway I have no doubt MaxCDN works well apart of this specific case.
I have servers inside and outside China and it is clear that the same page displaying in a blink of an eye when locally hosted can take up to several seconds when located in US and sometimes more if from Europe…

The only way to be sure of a CDN with good speed for local sites here is to have servers in China mainland but I guess this might not be easy due to administrative applications. Otherwise Hong Kong and Singapore seem also quite fast and can be good alternatives.

But I guess we are far from the initial topic of this thread so I wish you all a Merry Christmas (yes 10 days in advance but hey!).

THANKS!
Jamy

Tried today with my VPN that directly goes to the US and bypass the Chinese Great Firewall.
Interesting as the website netdna.com is slower (although they use their own cdn) with some gif appearing one after the other compare to MaxCDN opening like a rocket (seems they don’t use CDN).
Concerning my site, it still loads quicker with the CDN switched off. Strange (?) Must keep on studying this….

Anyway we can close this topic as the problem of uploading files out of the WP Media Library has been solved.
A BIG THANKS TO Frederick Townes for his precious tip!

Sorry Frederick to come back a bit late. YES, it works and all my photos in separate folders are now taken in account. So all is OK on the W3 TOTAL CACHE side although I think I could have the plugin tuned even better.

First hopefully wpbeginner website has a great tutorial so I could have the whole system working in a short time. I am not at all involved with https://www.wpbeginner.com but I think they are one of the few sites trying to explain things as clearly as possible. Congrats to them!

Concerning MaxCDN, I think it is a great service and their support is quick but I found Netdna to be a bit slow here. I can sometimes see some elements freezing during the loading page when I see at the bottom of my browser (Firefox) “transfering data from cdn.xxxxx.netdna.com”. This is probably due to my location (China with the Great Firewall) and it seems also no server available (yet) in China Mainland. Still I guess the plugin tuning could also be optimized.

There is an option in the plugin offering professional tuning for $100. I would not mind paying this fee if I knew a bit more about the process. I mean is there a kind of small report (a few lines) telling me what has or should be changed so that I can learn a little for the next sites. I saw the option to pay but could not find a line about the process.

So for now I have deactivated the CDN as until now my host (BLUEHOST) and the W3 Total Cache plugin on (no CDN) gave me the best response times here in China.
Maybe I should try VPS.net promoted by Yoast (his site is very quick in China) but fee is also more expensive (+ MaxCDN lost fee of $39.95).

So finally don’t really know where to start from. Do you think I should have the professional plugin tuning done first?

THANK YOU for your help.
Jamy

THANK YOU Frederick for your help and concern!

You mean I can put my images path in the “custom file list” in the Advanced Section (already has favicon.ico and wp-content/gallery/*) then enable auto-upload and it will work? That simple?
Can hardly believe it, as I surfed for hours and never found a single line on this. Even MaxCDN never gave me an answer when I dropped them a line (although I had already paid my fee).

Well you really helped me on this. Going to try it asap!
Thanks again!
Jamy

There are in fact lots of ways to find your pages/posts.

I use the very convenient “Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu” (https://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/) and whenever I hover on my pages/posts listing (in Firefox) I see their ID.
You can also use the following plugin: “Admin Management Xtended Plugin” (https://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/admin-management-xtended-plugin/) which lists the pages/posts ID and do much more.

The index page is not considered as a page/post and has no specific ID like the others.

Hope this helps ??

James

THANK YOU very much Arne for your quick answer!

You always react very quickly and it is much appreciated.
Will contact you soon for donation.
Thanks again,

James

Thank you Paul for your quick answer!

If you have the plugin working without any problem with 2.9.2, that means something is weird on my side (?)
I have quite a few plugins and must do some tests to see what could be interfering.
I will keep that post updated.

Thank you again !
James

WOOWWW so simple and it works!!!

THANK YOU Arne for your quick answer!

Roger

It does not work properly with WP 2.9.2.
Such a security plugin can only be developed by an expert following users comments and correcting issues seriously.
Better stay away from this Chap Secure Login.

kdjkfjskdfjlskdjf.com/kp.php – 91.188.59.98:80

Brrr!!! Don’t like this kind of code displaying…
By the way as I regularly surf to get the latest tips/news or ideas concerning security, I found a site with quite a few interesting info gathered on the subject:
https://wpsecure.org/

Hope this helps ??