Fetching with Google…

Hello,

Today we tried to index our website by using the option Fetching with Google. There were two problems we faced:

1. The crawl bot got a 500 on /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/
2. We don’t have any kind of ads, but while rendering our website Google reported it was blocked on the follwing Script / AJAX
* https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js
* https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id

Since we won’t be using google ads/doubleclick, is there a way to perma remove it from even trying to be rendered?

That’s why I find it also quite weird. I double checked the ads section. Screenshot
Even running a speed test like tools.pingdom.com generated the same https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js

Hi Bogdan,
I am also having the same internal server error as Erythros. My first reaction was to contact my hosting company about this and their response was as follows:

It looks like there is an error with the theme itself:
[23-Feb-2017 04:08:04 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/index.php on line 6

I have the latest update 7.7 installed and I’m still getting the same 500 response code as I got with Newspaper 7.6. I did not have this occur with any earlier themes.

So you’re suggesting it’s a server side issue and my hosting company says it’s a theme issue. Not sure where to go from here. Hopefully the above information is helpful in some way.

Kind regards

Message 2 following on from above:

Checking the error log in /public_html/mysite/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/error_log, I’m still getting the following error after updating to Newspaper 7.7.

[24-Feb-2017 03:57:40 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/dbs/public_html/mysite/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/index.php on line 6

Hope this helps guys. Love your theme despite the occasional hiccup 🙂

Cheers

+1 same problem here since few months.

Hi Bogdan,

For my part, I’m not interested in the Google DFP bit. Just the header. I’ll check out the link you’ve provided and let you know how I go.

Love your work.

Cheers amigo

Hi Bogdan,

According to the link you’ve provided, the suggested code to fix this is:

if (function_exists(‘get_header’)) {
get_header();
}else{
/* Redirect browser */
header(“Location: http://” . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . “”);
/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
}; ?>

I’m using an SSL certificate so my site is served through HTTPS protocol. I’m wondering if I’d need to make sure the bit (“Location: http://” . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]) would need to be https and HTTPS_HOST?

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,
Ok, I found another solution here, similar to above but simpler. Since nobody should be accessing your theme’s index.php directly (it’s probably a ‘bot), you can just kill the process and save the resources that a redirect would require.

This worked well and resulted in resolution of the internal server error with Google Webmaster Tools. Score!

<?php
if (function_exists(‘get_header’)) {
get_header();
} else {
die();
}
?>

It seems dangerous tho. Thoughts on it, Bogdan ?

Hi Bogdan,
I tried the code you provided above, but it rendered a 404 page.

I went back and checked the URL and it turns out capital letters matter!

mysite/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/ with capital N in Newspaper redirects back to my home page

mysite/wp-content/themes/newspaper/ with lower case n renders a 404 error!

Bogdan, your code does work. Thanks!

Cheers guys

• This reply was modified 9 years by MESOTU.

@Bogdan

Where would I have to add the snippet you provided above, taking into consideration I am using a child theme ?