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Will do, thanks.

It’s most definitely not a plugin. I took a screenshot: https://prntscr.com/n162op
I think the problem is because of Gutenberg. Once I publish a post, I can no longer change the “post options”. I mean, I can tick and it ticks, but the setting is not saved, and it’s the only setting that’s glitching.

I don’t think it’s a theme option. It’s in the right sidebar along with publish date, categories, featured image, discussion, and has always been there. It’s a default wordpress option I believe. Add-ons appear at the bottom.

got it! thanks for your input ??

I do get a few hundred visits a day.

James, I was, but I immediately disabled and removed it. It was LiteSpeed Cache.

It didn’t solve the problem, however, so I saved the info and rolled back to the previous version for each page. I then manually updated all the pages to the version that I needed.

After this I update them as often as I want and the newer version is the one that’s live (at least for now).

It looks like it was a particular date that was creating the problem. Do you think it’s worth installing a caching plugin again? Because I don’t really feel like it anymore ??

This is actually a really good solution and it doesn’t mess up page structure when I have parent pages.

Thank you very much!

yeah, looks like content filtering…

Wow, I found the culprit. It’s one word in the body of the page that triggers this: torrent. And now since the page is blocked, any copy/paste from that page leads to the same result. When I create a new page with a random title and then have only 1 word “torrent” as content, it gets blocked.

All my other pages that contain this word are fine. So it’s like the issue is when this is the main topic of the article.

A very strange part is that I cannot even access any website where the main topic is torrent like https://torrentfreak.com/, https://www.bittorrent.com, https://www.bittorrent.com, but I can search for “torrent” in google and I can for instance read wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file or https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/

All of this is happening only when I’m on the East Coast US IP address o_O. I tried different VPN servers and providers, the issue is not related to a particular server. Maybe it’s my Mac…

Well, at least now I know I should probably find a different forum to figure this out lol.

The thing is that I never copy/paste from elsewhere. I just checked my content against plagiarism using online checkers, everything’s fine. This is why it’s even more strange. I thought there should be some sensible explanation or maybe a place I could try checking for a glitch. Maybe there is something blocking something and because of this the issue might reoccur in the future. I dunno..

The page is accessed from that location and then accessed from other locations (this is not an ISP issue or blacklisted IP if that’s what you’re referring to).

Based on more testing I discovered that it’s the content of this particular page that triggers this issue. 301 redirect from this page to any other doesn’t work, creating a clone page leads to the same issue. Creating a page with the same link and the same page title – doesn’t lead to this, but the second I enter the same content, it stops loading (I cannot even publish it). After this editing the content back to something else doesn’t help. If content is different, it works like it should. BUt this is not a copy/paste issue either as I tried manually retyping the text.

So it is certainly the content, but why (I don’t have any ads or other spam on my website)? It was working just fine up until yesterday. I don’t mind re-writing it completely, but I’d like to know what exactly causes this and how do I prevent it.

I found wordpress.com/sites

Please help me understand if this is the so called “wordpress network” and what the new site will share with the old?

Couldn’t disagree more, you obviously know nothing about marketing. The whole idea behind offering a limited version of something for free is to convert those users into premium at some point or another. Facebook paid for “free” whatsapp billions of dollars. 90% of Google revenue comes from advertising, not from a whole lot of free services billions of users have. Free users is what made Yoast this popular. Free users pay at a later time IF they are happy AND free users are great for marketing.

While I agree Yoast cannot support the “how to” issues, serious technical malfunctions should be responded to. I didn’t even get to configure it. I only downloaded the plugin, it immediately told me to disable other search engine verification tools and sitemaps only yo use Yoast. After this Google search console stopped working, search engines dropped the website…. I waisted a week fixing all this and still cannot get the pages to the state they were before. I didn’t even ask support to help configure, I asked to remove it completely and reverse everything.

How on earth Yoast even thought it’s a good idea to suggest buying the product when it’s malfunctioning from the first second!!! It’s like giving customers a trial, but telling them to deal with their issues on their own. If you want to me pay for this, convince me this kind of glitch is not a standard thing at the very least! and what happens now, a “free user” just became a very unhappy one. A product that was supposed to make a site better, broke it which is a very serious tech issue. While it could remain a private matter between Yoast and the user, it now becomes a public one. Very bad management decision.

I want to reverse everything this plugin did. I would never consider using it again nor would I ever endorse it for someone else to consider.

Actually, search engines only display pages in searches, not posts. Posts are completely gone even if I search using “site:”

Somebody please advise how to fix this issue.