Technology Challenges
Normally, I love technology challenges. Normally, I’m pretty good with WordPress. Lately, I have one blog that’s been one challenge after another, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to fix the problem. One of my plug-ins says the blog is not searchable by search engines, yet search engines appear to be finding it. I have blog posts set to broadcast by subscribers, but that function appears to have broken yesterday. I think I fixed what caused it to break, or, rather, I undid a change I made yesterday that may have caused that problem. Yes, it did not broadcast yesterday’s post. Is it me or is it my autoresponder? We’ll see if this broadcast goes out.
What technology challenges have you had recently? Does WordPress vex you? I’ve considered doing a tutorial series on WordPress. Would that interest you? If so, what would you like it to include?
Software updates done by WP and the widgets and plugins you use can cause it, especially when they update WPJetpack. I find I have to shut down all plugins uninstall jetpack, turn all plugins back on, if they work, reinstall jetpack and see if it does it again. pain in the butt I have looked for other alternatives to jetback for .org site, but nothing is really as good yet that I have found that is free to use.
Best of luck to ya
Juneta
Juneta Writer’s Gambit
Good suggestions. I turned off plug-ins, and it didn’t make a difference. I did make one edit in the database, and something in my RSS feed fixed, so the blog title comes through on blog subscriptions now. I’m pleased about that. Supposedly, something is redirecting in the blog URL keeping it from being indexed (but the only search engine that can’t find it is one I’ve never heard of. China isn’t my target audience anyway). Either the trailing / is there or isn’t, and the redirect goes to the opposite (don’t remember which off-hand). I looked up why the trailing / is important, and I get that, but why did it redirect, and how do I turn that off? That’s what has me puzzled for the moment. (I think this is something in the .htaccess file, but I’m not sure what to mess with on that either.) Fun stuff, eh?