SOLVED: WP Optimise adds backlink to robots.txt

  • marcusquinn

    (@surferking)


    9 months ago

    The below issue has now been solved.

    Thank you kindly @webulous and team WP Optimize for giving it your consideration and attention.

    SOLVED: This line was being added to robots.txt.

    I’m leaving the text here for those searching to now find this is solved from v3.3.1.

    <!– WP Optimize page cache – https[colon]//getwpo.com – page NOT cached –>

    Google PageSpeed flags this with:

    Error: Unknown directive

    • This topic was modified 9 months ago by marcusquinn. Reason: 1-star
    • This topic was modified 9 months ago by marcusquinn.
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  • Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    Hi,

    We are aware of the issue and will be releasing a fix for this shortly.

    In the meantime, we apologise for any inconvenience.

    Thread Starter marcusquinn

    (@surferking)

    @vupdraft Thank you, appreciate the updates, following with interest.

    Plugin Contributor Venkat Raj

    (@webulous)

    Hi @surferking,

    All caching plugins add a comment to cached pages stating that it was cached by specific plugin. It is not a backlink and is never our intention, it is just an HTML comment.

    Having said that in version 3.3.0 we made a change to add cache comment irrespective of WP_DEBUG value. We add reason for not being cached when WP_DEBUG is set to true

    This issue does not happens when you have a robots.txt file. Unfortunately, it happens when there is no robots.txt, WordPress creates one and WP-Optimize caching script adds the comment to newly created file.

    The issue has been fixed in the latest release 3.3.1

    In short, it?was not intentional, and we thank you for pointing it out to us.??

    Please could you revise your 1* rating?  This will really encourage us to continue to improve the product and provide ongoing support.

    Thread Starter marcusquinn

    (@surferking)

    Thank you kindly for your attention to this and communications @webulous ??

    I’ve edited the above to show the issue solved. Please let me know if you’re happy with that.

    Plugin Contributor Venkat Raj

    (@webulous)

    Hi @surferking

    Thank you for your understanding regarding the unintentional mistake. I appreciate that you took the time to revise your ratings. Your feedback encourages us to improve our plugin and make it more helpful.

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