simchris Most themes do not work on WordPress.com — only self hosted websites.
simchris When visiting this thread on tagdiv site, it triggers the Malwarebytes warning.
simchris fyi – joxi.net screenshots used in this thread trigger outbound malware warning in malwarebytes …
Malwarebytes
www.malwarebytes.com
-Log Details-
Protection Event Date: 1/14/19
Protection Event Time: 10:47 AM
Log File: d2b385ec-182c-11e9-9768-3c07547ed697.json
-Software Information-
Version: 3.6.1.2711
Components Version: 1.0.508
Update Package Version: 1.0.8774
License: Premium
-System Information-
OS: Windows 10 (Build 17134.523)
CPU: x64
File System: NTFS
User: System
-Blocked Website Details-
Malicious Website: 1
, , Blocked, [-1], [-1],0.0.0
-Website Data-
Category: Trojan
Domain: dl4.joxi.net
IP Address: 176.9.162.201
Port: [50440]
Type: Outbound
File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
(end)
simchris Ask host to fix cURL setup.
simchris It is simple hit counter, nothing more.
simchris Yes, that is curl issue with your hosting setup.
You can install via ftp, or get curl fixed.
simchris Looks like you have a background gradient setup for the site; might need to go to the theme settings to remove any gradients or backgrounds, and change the background on pages from the gradient to simply a color like #FFF
simchris You would need to use a third party form plugin which allows creation of posts from a submitted form; which is not part of the theme.
simchris make sure you are using ‘ marks and not curly quote marks ‘
simchris Did you also update under main WP settings > general ?
simchris Twitter sometimes does not show the image at times; and you’d need to come back to it later.
Or, try the twitter card validator, put in the URL to preview they captured the image properly.
As long as image is the minimum size, and found in the twitter card meta data in your header, they grab it.
Theme has zero control over that.
See the Twitter Card Validator page online for more info!
https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
simchris Why not simply deactivate the Tagdiv AMP plugin?
We’ve been using the official Automattic AMP plugin with TagDiv themes since 2016 without issues. So, no reason you can’t use it now. 🙂
(I don’t work here.)
simchris The name of the site is usually managed under the normal WordPress settings:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_Screen
Useful to go through all the default settings in WordPress to learn how WP works.
simchris It’s included in the /plugins/ folder from the ‘all files’ download. Or should be.
simchris Do you have the classic editor plugin installed/activated ?
simchris We have chosen to keep using the classic editor over here, and wait for 5.1 to even play with it any further.
simchris Good idea to start locking down your site …
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/
simchris Google archives everything you submit to it with a sitemap.
simchris Lazy load images animation is a theme setting.
Permalinks are a main wordpress setting. Please see the wordpress.org docs to walk through using the basic settings in wp admin separate from themes.
simchris Disable the lazy load elements.
Resave the menu, resave the widget.
Resave permalinks.
In Chrome, hit F12, then click-hold refresh to ‘clear cache force refresh.’
All that is good starting point. :-0
simchris Again, it’s a simple hit counter; it increments each time page is loaded, it does not do anything else.
You need to use a stats/reporting product to understand ‘actual’ traffic to your site. The hit counter is only useful as general reference. And yes, if your traffic drops, it will not count as many times.
So, good to
a) check to see if you have console errors in chrome; run the audits;
b) check your search console on Google (etc) for errors/warnings
c) if your traffic is loaded over /amp you might not be tracking ‘hits’ — you would need to test that
d) note that Google may no longer show your site in SERPS if not mobile optimized and https — without https and mobile optimization via the lighthouse audit in Chrome, they may not move your site to ‘mobile first in SERPS’ and you *will* lose traffic
simchris Also, the master php.ini file may have limitations.
Also note syntax on Linux
php_value max_input_vars 3000
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
simchris also note typo in the docs
.hthaccess
should be
.htaccess
simchris It’s a simple hit counter. You likely want to start looking at “actual” traffic stats, which most web hosts offer via your hosting panel, to see “actual” visits to your site. The hit counter will be mix of ‘bots’ and ‘actual views’ — and may drop if the host/server starts blocking ‘bad bots’ (we do that here).
For example once we installed Fail2Ban to stop bad bots pummeling our site; a story in a niche site might drop from 15,000 over first couple of days to as little as 1,000 hits/views once the bots taken out of the views/counter.
Just some feedback. 🙂
simchris Over here, we’ve chosen to skip the Gutenberg roll-out until it’s more mature and won’t permanently break/damage/change existing posts/dbase content, etc. (anybody remember when the old tag format went belly up and hundreds/thousands of posts with [tag] at bottom of every post?). We are using the ‘keep classic editor’ plugin, from Automattic, for the time being.
I would highly recommend folks “test” the new plugin on a non-critical site before messing with your main site, and also make full backups of the dbase, site via ftp, and not rely on the ‘export’ function of WP which is dodgy on critical restores.
Food for thought anyway. (Mr. paranoia over here!) 😉
