Yes I am 89.95% certain that the plugins were all disabled “automatically”
I am still doing a lot of testing and tweaking – so I cant rule out some incompetence on my part ??
I wonder if it is the ithemes plugin that causes the confusion – it does a lot – renames directories- hides the back end – enables partial ssl on the front end. forces ssl on the admin side.
Also, its the first time I’ve used this plugin so let me make sure I understand how it works and if I’m doing it right.
It can be a bit confusing for instance understanding the need for plugin filters and just selecting which plugins to disable from each page.
Also in settings, I did not have selective plugin loading for admin highlighted, which I have now enabled.
So in the settings now all the post types are checked and all the general settings are turned on.
I have a snippet of code in my functions php to ignore query strings – could that cause problems.
Anyway here is what I will do.
I am going to reapply all the selective plugins loading on my home page only and then will give it a couple of days to fully confirm if they do off.
once this is 100% confirmed I will do it all again with the ithemes plugin turned off and then with the code snippet and then minus cloudflare and see where we are from there.