nigelpt

Thank you very much for your help – it is greatly appreciated!

+update+ After a break, the site is up and running-ish but still the same problem that caused me to originally consider SSL.

Because so many modern browsers have the irritating habit of forcing “https://” – it means only some of the images can be seen. Most are just a small box with a tiny icon in the upper left corner. However, manually forcing “https://” in _some_ browsers makes the site work properly. Anyone visiting my site will see a large expanse of grey where an image should be but mysteriously when scrolling down other will be visible. All other images on the site are blank when using “https://”.

#Stop Press:## Bad news – I cannot log into the WordPress admin panel nor into C Panel. The former tells me it isn’t redirecting properly and the latter tells me the “login is invalid”.

It is one of those days and panic is beginning to set in! Ha!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by nigelpt.

UPDATE:

This appears to be

partially

resolved…

[1] “Sorry, trouble retrieving payment receipt” appears to have been addressed by

– Adding the Checkout and Order Confirmation pages to the WP FASTEST CACHE plugin’s Exclude list.
– Deleting & rebuilding the WP FASTEST CACHE local page cache
– Purging the CDN cache [ Cloudflare ]

The receipt details now display properly on the Order Confirmation page.

However, I was suspicious of the relationship with Contact Form 7 plugin. This has been replaced with WPForms Lite.

Furthermore, erratic email transmission appears to have been addressed by consolidating STMP using WP Mail SMTP plugin.

The remaining bad news…..

The ‘Order’ page shows “Completed”, but no name, only a dash appears to still be a problem. The name does not appear to be stored anywhere, unless it is a pre-existing Customer name.

Looking at my very occasional list of downloads, all names stopped being recorded after the recent update.

Hi,

Many thanks for your kind offer to assist.

The actual links are;

https://i0.wp.com/www.fenstanton-village.co.uk/fns/wp-content/uploads/Crucified-skeleton-displayed-CREDIT-Albion-Archaeology-Adam-Williams_--rotated.jpg?w=1108

https://i0.wp.com/www.fenstanton-village.co.uk/fns/wp-content/uploads/Aerial-photo-of-Cambridge-Road-site-CREDIT-JJ-Mac-Ltd_-.jpg?w=1108

https://i0.wp.com/fenstantonpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_1820.jpg?resize=1024%2C754&ssl=1

https://i0.wp.com/www.fenstanton-village.co.uk/fns/wp-content/uploads/Grave-of-crucified-skeleton-CREDIT-Albion-Archaeology_--rotated.jpg?w=1108

Predrag,

That is brilliant. Sincere thanks!

I have noted your wise words in response to others.

Cheers,

Nigel

I cannot find the deprecation notice which I caught a fleeting glance of late last night.

I think it had some code to add for those of us that don’t use the horrible Gutenberg.

Is there any way I can wake the dashboard warning up so I can invoke the code change, please?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by nigelpt.

Thanks for your reply.

Looking at my post, I should have been a little more explicit!

I have set the Alt text parameter in the Media section. but when WP uses the image in the header, it doesn’t port the data across.

i.e looking at the page source it says “….<img src= {image name} width="1200" height="350" alt=”” />

I have deleted the image and re-imported it, set the Alt parameter but still no luck.

Very strange!

Hi Vinod,

Many thanks for your reply. I fully understand and will look into it. I wasn’t sure if I was missing something in the setup!

Kind regards

The correct term I should have used was “Link to Media Page”

I have discovered that it is a setting in Yoast which disables this.

Search Appearance | Media | Redirect attachment URLs to the attachment itself?

Selected ‘No’ and normal service will be resumed. However, this may be an inelegant solution.

Thank you again, Joy.

As ever, you know all the answers!

Having the WordPress section at the end of the .htaccess file is obviously something pretty vital which had escaped me – a valuable lesson learned.

So we are in business – all I need do now is find out why the Menu save button gives no clue when the task is complete.

Thanks again!

Hi Joy,

Firstly thank you very much for taking the time to advise me – very much appreciated.

I am reporting back for the benefit of anyone who comes across this post.

There were multiple issues and despite clearing all local caches and CDN, the problem remained.

However the following worked.

– I had been trying two different caching plug-ins and one appeared to have left remnants which were cleaned out.
– Using the Broken Link Checker plug-in I was able to detect a large number of obsolete URLs in page/post links which had not been picked up by refreshing permalinks.

It took a while to manually correct each one and I now have just 4 to track down but they are proving elusive – for now…

However, a new issue has been detected!

The original static site had a section that relied upon query_strings. I converted all 490 of them to static html pages and adding the following to the .htaccess file it all worked like a dream.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ID=([0-9]+) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /{folder}/{filename-%1.html? [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

domain/file?ID={number} redirected to domain/folder/file-{number}.html

Now suddenly this has stopped working and all incoming calls to the original URLs are being sent to the WP 404 page.

I’ve tried several different rules in the .htaccess file, including just testing a single file redirect not no joy. Does the coexistence with WP cause a problem or is the QuerySting “ID” conflicting with WP internally?

I’ll disable all caching and CDN, clear all local browser[s] caches and see if that makes any difference.

I’m at the ‘pushing the eyes back in with a stick’ stage so will have some sleep and come back with a clear[er] mind tomorrow. It is probably something simple awaiting some logical sideways solution!

Cheers

Hi,

Yes sorry – the brain has gone to mush over here!

WordPress Address (URL) is set to {domain} / { folder} with no trailing slash

Site Address (URL) is set to domain only

Is it the missing trailing slash, I wonder?

Hi Joy,

Wow! Thank you SO much!

Sincere thanks for taking the time to guide me in the right direction.

N

Hi,

Wow – such a speedy response and VERY much appreciated!

Cheers!