Quickie re public and crawler access

  • Resolved rbmg-wp

    (@rbmg-wp)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Ann-Mari,

    I know that when public is ticked, the list is written to a file.

    I only show the list in the front end on a page that is NOT publically accessible.

    Question: can google’s (and the like) crawlers still access it, despite not being able to get to the page that it is accessible from?

    My problem being, without public being ticked, my privileged users get no headings row in the csv file when they hit csv filter on the front end. I need to protect the data so can’t let crawlers access it. Hope that makes sense!

    Headings come through fine if I download the csv via the back end.

    Many thanks!

    Liz

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  • Plugin Author anmari

    (@anmari)

    HI Liz,

    If there is no public link to a file or page, then in theory google shouldn’t get to it and also what would people be searching to find the .txt? BUT one couldn’t guarantee that.

    The folder has an ‘index.php’ so the files cannot be listed (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-unprotected-website-directories-get-interesting-files/) by folks looking for stuff.

    That said probably the CSV filter should have headings, and at quick look something is not quite right there re public & csv interaction. I’ll have deeper look and post update soonish if possible.

    Plugin Author anmari

    (@anmari)

    see version 4.9

    csv on non-public lists possible – so no file produced. But only accessible for users who have ‘list_users’ capability

    csv subsets (filter) should have headers

    Thread Starter rbmg-wp

    (@rbmg-wp)

    Thank you so very, very much! You are a gem! ??

    Thread Starter rbmg-wp

    (@rbmg-wp)

    Hi again,

    Upon update and testing, I’m finding the order of the headings exported in csv don’t match the order of the data columns.

    eg.

    Firstname,Lastname,Email,Title,ID,Country
    123,Jane,Brown,jane@domain,Writer,Australia

    This only seems to be occuring in 1 list – the only one in which I want to show the ID column, but not in the first column.

    I have worked around it by moving ID to first column, but wondering if this might be reproducible on your end?

    Many thanks once again.
    Liz

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