Matt Lovett

Hey

Yes, Yes and Yes. ??

My thoughts are possibly (I can’t remember) maybe I didn’t import the data from RankMath using the import wizard, I think this is unlikely as I am sure I would have noticed earlier (as it was months ago), I am 99% sure this isn’t the case. However, in case of that 1% is there a way to check?

Obviously I don’t want to import data from Rankmath now as there has been loads of changes in Yoast.

If this is the case, do you think this would explain the issue?

Hi there

Tried both of these but still had the exact same issue ??

Any other ideas?

Hi

1) OK lets take this page as an example for working through your points – https://www.wowtrk.com/about-us/

You can see a screenshot of the Yoast metabox here – https://ibb.co/51k7NJG

2) If I hit save without touching the Yoast metabox on WP it wipes all the current meta data on the page.

3) So to clarify in the source code the meta data is there (you can view the source code of the page mentioned above to see it). However if I edit the page and hit save without touching Yoast it will be lost.

4) The data is not appearing in the Yoast metabox, I can’t be sure it was set in RankMath, it may have even been set in Yoast previously its a while ago.

As mentioned the data does appear on the front end in the source code until the page is updated. So every page/post right now have to be really mindful of edits as it loses the meta data unless we manually copy it across from source code to Yoast metabox.

Hi Devnihil,

I am using the latest versions of WP and Yoast.

I have not tried what you mentioned because I wanted to offer some additional insight before I spend time doing this:

1) There are no issues with any new content its only existing content.

2) I believe (although I can’t be 100% sure) its to do with imported meta from RankMath. It seems to have stored it but doesn’t display it in Yoast. So then when I go to save a page it wipes all the data.

Is this an issue you aware of?

Do you think I should still try your debugging steps? I don’t think there is any point because if I fill in the data and hit save it then works fine, it appears to only be a problem with old data.

Matt

Hi

Ok thanks will give this a try looks like a long process do for each site though.

I have not migrated all sites yet, is there a better way to do this process for Wordfence for sites I have yet to migrate?

Matt

Oh right – I did not ??

Any suggestions on what I should do please? ??

Ah yeah it was Wordfence, renaming the plugin folder to disable it solved it.

Ah okay I see, is that the case with the Brenda plugin then as well on the other site?

Hi Adam,

No problem I have sent a report from both the sites with issues, thank you ??

Matt

Nah it can’t be a host issue. We have other sites on our dedicated server that are working 100% fine (but they don’t have maintenance plugins installed).

The only sites we have issues with have active maintenance plugins… it’s 100% to do with this.

Hey

They are actually already in learning mode.

The issue is with Wordfence Central which gets a “Error Detected” connection issue as soon as I enabled the plugin, well a few minutes maybe an hour after.

I am using two different maintenance plugins on two different sites, but they stop working when this is the only thing that is enabled/changed.

Site using “Brenda” plugin gets this message:
“We received a non-200 HTTP code when connecting to your site: 401. The response was Only authenticated users can access the REST API.”

Site using “SeedProd” maintenance plugin gets this message:
“We’ve detected CloudFlare blocking our requests to your site. For help on resolving this issue, see our troubleshooting connection issues article here.”

100% not a CloudFlare issue as IP is whitelisted and it works perfectly fine after I disabled SeedProd and leave it an hour two.

Cheers

Hi Adam,

I actually managed to figure this out last night, it was due to the maintenance plugin I had enabled.

Is there any maintenance plugins that Wordfence is compatible with that wont flag up errors?

This has to be the worst UI design I have ever seen.

Did Microsoft have some input into this design? ??

Yeah just updated to it and that seems to fix it, thanks! ??

OK great thanks. ??