JoanW

I did all that when I first installed those two plugins. So basically you are saying that Blackhole, because of maybe some innocuous setting maybe, has now cut into the potential profits of the majority of products on my 14 sites that I have it on and is showing ‘Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from site’ and ensuring nobody click on my site for fear of being banned. I am beyond upset.

WP Super Cache is on the approved list.

When you talk about configuration I have no idea what the proper configuration it. I followed what the plugin said and what I have read online. However, since there are so many opinions on what proper configuration is, how do I know what the right configuration is?

Just curious how a caching plugin would cause the sentence to show in the serp results.

I used wp robots.txt plugin. This is what is showing:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /?blackhole

Is this correct?

I am a babe in the woods when it comes to all this. So are you saying Blackhole is not working?

It is showing on many indexed product listings but not all. I have 14 sites. On this one site it is only showing only 4 listings in the log.

2020/07/04 @ 12:00:00 am – 123.456.789.000 – HTTP/1.1 – Cygnus X-1 (Space Invaders) User Agent (Atari 2600)
[x] 2018/03/24 @ 10:22:55 pm – 211.115.79.122 – HTTP/1.1 – Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; Nexus 4 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.114 Mobile Safari/537.36
[x] 2018/03/25 @ 02:21:55 am – 10.20.1.218 – HTTP/1.1 – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36
[x] 2018/04/08 @ 05:42:08 am – 138.68.11.201 – HTTP/1.1 – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

I am running WP Super Cache which is supposed to be the best. I was having problems with brute force attacks on my sites. Is this caching plugin one that is supported?

All my issues disappeared when Mod Security 1234234 was whitelisted. I hope your issues will be resolved soon. Personally I would just have them whitelist the mod security anyway as part of troubleshooting. Good luck

Joan

I spoke with Shane at Host Gator. I mentioned that it may be a security issue. He white listed Mod Security #1234234 and everything is fine now. YEAH!!
I hope this solves other people’s issues also.

Joan

There is a version 5.3.4. I wonder if WP has upgraded and not the hosts. Just a wondering. I don’t know much about it but I remember last year when there was a conflict between php4 and php5 and some of the plugins would not work. WP upgraded to php5

I am having the same issues and posted elsewhere on the forum. I suspect it is a php issue. This has been going on for weeks and I am losing money. Not happy.

Joan

I had deactivated all the plugins and still got the same results. It is the oddest thing. When I try to edit and image the cursor jumps to the top and the edit window does not open. I can delete it. My friend in Australia who is having the same problems also deactivated all of his plugins and that did not help him either.

The plugins I use are the same plugins that I have used for over a year and there has never been a problem before.

I have also seen on my sites where the formatting will change and I have to change it back. It is all very strange and very frustrating.

I will try getting rid of inactive plugins and see if that helps. I will post the results here.