turtledove100

Thanks for your help Steven. I’ll check out the post you linked to and try again.

Sorry about editing our your corrections; I was in the middle of editing my original post when you were sending your first reply. I had no idea anyone would respond so quickly.

Isn’t there a way to do it without using a plugin?

Hey Steve,
Thanks for your reply. I don’t understand what you’re saying.

Could you please explain the actual process?

Is the coding for my text link correct?

Where exactly would I put the coding you’ve mentioned?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by turtledove100.

Well this isn’t working. I can’t figure out how to write this post without the coding I’m using rendering once I submit the post.

Can anyone explain the process of creating a jump link from one pg of my site to another? I specifically want to link to an h3 or even make the jump to just before the h3; either would work just fine.

Thanks!

I’m back. I’ve been chasing this issue around for the better part of 1 wk and it’s still happening. I switched hosting companies – from Bluehost to WP Engine but when I migrated my site over the problem persisted.

So I got WPE tech support (which has been awesome BTW) on it. The first thing the tech agent did was switch me to the WP default 2015 theme, delete both Genesis and my child theme and then republish a post on the default theme. The problem was still there so it seems that we’ve ruled out a problem with the theme.

The next thing he did seems to have solved the problem. I understand most of his explanation but it still doesn’t make total sense to me. Here’s what he said:

Problem: When publishing a draft, the post would appear normal when previewing, but when viewing through the permalink URL after publishing, only the post image was being displayed.

Reason: This was determined to be due to the post and image using the same post_name value in the database, causing the image to be loaded instead of the full post when accessing the permalink.

When you visit a permalink ,WordPress will look in the bfposts table of the database for a row with a matching post_name value. WordPress will then load this row from the database, displaying the post content. However since the image and the post have the same post_name values, and the image was added to the database first, the image is loaded instead of the post.

Solution: To prevent this issue, we simply need to change the title of the image (which is what the post_name value is created from) to something different than the post title. By changing the title of the image, the post_name value is changed as well. This prevents the image from being loaded instead of the post no matter what the order of the rows is.

So as I understand it, basically he’s saying that it’s a WP glitch that happens from time to time but here’s what I don’t understand:

It started happening all of a sudden and with no recent WP update. If it would have started happening right after a WP update then I could understand, but the fact is this: I published about 15 or 20 posts without any issues at all AFTER I’d updated WP and THEN it started happening.

For SEO purposes, I use the exact same title for both the post itself and for the featured image title. His fix is to make the title of the image slightly different than the post title itself. So, for example, he went into the media library and added ‘img’ onto the end of the image titles for one of the posts, published that post and it worked just fine.

This morning, after I’d received his answer, I went into my dashboard and published 7 posts that had been sitting in ‘draft’ form. 4 of them published just fine when I hit the ‘publish’ button but 3 of them, when I published them, lost all their content.

So I went into the media library and added ‘img’ to the end of each image title for those 3 posts, went back and republished the posts and they published just fine. I did all of that within a 5 minute time frame.

So his fix certainly seems to work but given that 4 of them published fine with just a stroke of the ‘publish’ button but the other 3 had to have altered image file titles in order to publish properly makes the problem very random in my mind.

If it’s a WP glitch, why did 4 out of the 7 posts publish just fine? Can it be some sort of totally random WP glitch that hits some posts and not others?

Can anyone make heads or tails out of this?

Thanks Tobias. I don’t think I was understanding how it was supposed to work but now that you’ve explained it, I see it’s working properly.

Cheers!

If, by web server configuration you mean an issue on my hosting company’s side, they adamant that it has nothing to do with them or any of their servers.

Good idea about the server error log. I know about what time it happened so I’ll get on with HG and get the logs. Thanks!

Thanks WPyogi. I’m in the habit of always clearing my caches after any changes and if anything doesn’t look right so that was the first thing I tried — before deactivating and reactivating the iThemes Security plugin.

If it was due to the way the plugin was behaving on the server side, wouldn’t HostGator pick up on that?

Yes – I use W3 Total Cache. But neither iThemes or W3 has had an update recently so I can’t figure out any plugin that I’ve been using for a long time and haven’t updated recently would all of a sudden cause problems.

Hey Tobias,
Thanks for your quick response. No — I don’t have any specific issues; I was just getting ahead of the game a bit. I’m just in the process of switching over to the new theme so I’ll definitely post here if I run into any specific issues as you’re always very helpful. Thanks!

leejosepho — I’m not sure how this could relate to a security issue as these are google’s results from GWT. Could you please expand a bit on your explanation?

karpstrucking — I originally used dummy URLs but I’ll post the actual ones now and hopefully that’ll help you help me. ??

So here’s the link to one of the posts:

https://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/

And instead of listing that URL as the 404 crawl error, here’s what GWT has listed:

https://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review

So the domain name is repeated and another completely different URL is added onto the end. I realize that the 404 error is due to the fact that that URL does not exist on my site but I don’t understand why google has attached the extra domain name and totally unrelated URL of a completely different post to all these links.

The ‘petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review’ part of the listing is from this post:

https://www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review

And it’s added onto the end of every single 404 error listed in my GWT ‘Smartphone’ section.

I use Flexibility 3 theme and I’ve had one developer say he thinks this is being caused by some kind of bug in the theme but I haven’t been able to get any help from the Flexibility 3 developer or forum.

Hey karpstrucking,
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve already double checked all the links in the posts that are showing 404s and they’re all correct; none are missing the ‘https://’ so that’s not the issue but thanks for your suggestion.

And the really odd thing to me in all this is that the URL that’s added on (and shouldn’t be) to the end of each URL listed as a 404 error is the exact same URL; its not like each 404 has a different URL added on — they all have the exact same one.

Any other suggestions?

Sorry karpstrucking — I’m not following you. Could you please clarify what you mean?

Thanks so much James!