Jeff Archibald

Yep, we’re having the same thing here. Looks to me like there is javascript injected in the footer that is meant for the back-end of the site, not the front end. Timely also posted an article about limiting “excessive” Google crawls as a potential “solution”.

https://support.time.ly/limiting-excessive-google-crawls/

Dear alchymyth: you are AWESOME. That was totally it. I went through a ton of the related documentation but missed this snippet. Much appreciated.

SS_Minnow; thanks for the input as well. I did read up on the is_page vs. is_home issues; that part of my code is correct.

Make sure this code is in your footer.
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

The answer is: I’M AN IDIOT. The screen options tab, top right in the admin end, pulls down to show options of what you see on your page. Custom Fields was not selected. Click it, and voila! it appears. What are the odds.

Thanks for the effort, adiant.

Hmm. I did have Magic Fields in there (as a plugin) but all my plugins are deactivated so I don’t think it’s that. I built the “theme” from scratch, so I’m wondering if I deleted a line of php or something that needs to be there. However, I didn’t touch any functions.php files or anything – just [pagename].php.

Anyone? Bueller?