mchumor

Thank you so much!!! Sorry to take so long in saying so, but I was gone all week. It worked like a charm and literally saved me weeks of work.

For awhile I was deleting the transients myself. It’s time consuming, but better than having your site down. To delete them go to
MANAGE YOUR HOSTING and click on SETTINGS
Then click on DATA BASE
Then click on the link at “phpMyAdmin Url”
That takes you to a Log in page where it asks for your user name and password.
When I do that I go to a page with two items on the left side. One says information_schema. Ignore that one.
The other is my username. Click on that one.
That brings up a long list of stuff on the left. Click on the one that says OPTIONS
Go to BROWSE
That takes you to a table that includes your Transients. You DO NOT want to delete anything that’s not a transient!!
There are two boxes: SHOW # of ROWS and STARTING AFTER # of cells.
I put in 500 Rows Starting at Cell 1,000
That brought up a page of 500 transients.
Scroll down to the bottom and click “CHECK ALL”
Then click the Red X. That then takes you to a page that asks if you really want to delete them all. Click YES.
It takes a few minutes to delete them all.
Once they’re deleted, repeat the last series of steps.
Hope this helps.

I used the plugin “Delete Expired Transients” to get the situation under control. Good luck.

Thanks. I deactivated all the plugins and the code went away. I then reactivated them one by one, and the code never came back. Go figure. The cyber-Gods are indeed inscrutable.

I just checked the logs. Before I reloaded my old site Google was crawling between 60 and 150 pages a day and now it’s crawling about 1,000 a day. I’m not sure if it’s crawling the WordPress part of the site because I currently have it unindexed so I’m not dinged for duplicate content.

Micro and niche markets are my customer base, and I think that was part of the problem of when I merged categories. Google Law cartoons and there are hundreds of sites before mine. Google Court Reporter cartoons and I’m #1.

You’re absolutely right that my “web gurus” ought to be able to add key words, descriptions and alt text in bulk using the Bento database I gave them when they created the site, and I really don’t know why they didn’t do it in the first place. I’m no web guru, but even I know that you should have alt text. I’d ask them to do it now, but I can’t afford it. I’m broke having suffered the double whammy of paying them my savings (the total bill was double their original estimate) and then having no income for six months when no one visited my site. They were “kind enough” to offer to put the old site up for free.

Thank you again for your input.

Thank you for taking the time to write. I’m going to work on the keywords and meta fields and study my webmaster tools page. When I asked my “web gurus” about adding meta descriptions and keywords to the 90 category pages they said my time would be better spent blogging and that google doesn’t look at keywords anymore. I was skeptical, but since I was paying them a small fortune I assumed they knew best. I’ve since added them to the category pages and and am now slowly going through and adding them to the 4,200 cartoon product pages, a slow and tedious task.

Yes, I use Analytics. Before I reposted my old site the only thing I could discern from it was that I had no visitors.