yoast causing havoc displaying all posts list

  • Resolved Jens

    (@jroggemann)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hello to all Yoast-developers!

    HINT:
    The page I need help with:
    Not available (… because Yoast is disabled since a week because of the error!)

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    Since about a week we are having serious problems with our website everytimes we are trying to activate the yoast-plugin.

    The main problem is the missing display of the All-Posts list logged in as a User with editor-role.
    Firstly an “server error”-message was displayed beyond the usual header-items of the list.
    Trying to activate the yoast-plugin (after waiting about a week) today again (… in hope of self-healing abilities over time ?? we’re getting a hint to switch on WP-debugging.

    Doing so, i.e. enabling WP-debugging, a massive log-file was created:
    About 5 GByte! … in only a few minutes, when trying to display the All-Posts-list.

    Main problem of the plugin seems to be trying to access the column “version” of the
    #NON-EXISTING table twli_wp4_wp_yoast_indexable

    Now we’re very surprised:

    How the yoast-plugin can try to use a non-existent table!
    or – not much better –
    How the yoast-plugin is getting lost of an entire (self owned ?!) table!

    All this also happened on a productive iunstance ;-((

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    So we are finally having this questions:

    * Are we the only website watching this problems?
    * Is there a known procedure to “heal” this issue?
    * Should we better consider to find an alternative plugin?

    Kind regards,
    also in hope of getting some enlightening about this uncomfortable issue

    Jens Roggemann
    Diepholz / Freistatt, Germany

    (since now minus 7 days an overall pleased user of the yoast-plugin for about 2,5 years)

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Jens. Reason: a minor correction

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hey @jroggemann,

    Thank you for reaching out.

    We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with our latest version.

    Looking at the error, it seems that our plugin is not able to create the indexable table on the site yet. And since 17.3 we added another column to that table in new functionality to have versioning on the indexables rows.

    Can you please try to do the following:

    1) Install the Yoast Test Helper plugin, found here https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/yoast-test-helper/
    2) Go to Tools → Yoast Test
    3) Click the Reset Indexables tables & migrations button.
    4) Go to SEO → Tools.
    5) Click the Start processing and speed up your site now button and let it complete.`

    Can you let us know if that process completes and if not, what happens so we can further investigate.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

    Thread Starter Jens

    (@jroggemann)

    Jeroen Rotty (@jeroenrotty) & devnihil (@devnihil)
    — Thanks for your support.

    Being busy with other projects I’ve only now tried installing your plugin
    Yoast Test Helper
    this morning.

    Installation & activation of the plugin was normal.

    …

    Following the 5 steps above I’m getting stuck with step 3):
    “3) Click the Reset Indexables tables & migrations button.”

    … I’m getting this website displaed:
    https://wohnungslos.info/wp-admin/admin-post.php

    … the screen is almost lightgrey with a smaller box with this text:

    —-
    Es gab einen kritischen Fehler auf deiner Website. Bitte überprüfe den Posteingang deiner Website-Administrator-E-Mail-Adresse für weitere Anweisungen.

    Erfahre mehr über die Problembehandlung in WordPress.
    —-

    PS:
    Yesterday late evening I tried to activate the Yoast-Plugin
    (which was disabled since my error-posting above)
    because there was a new (automatically installed) Yoast-update
    this day.
    But the error of the not displayed posting-list continued.

    So sorry, error seems to remain on our instance.

    Rgards and Thanks so long
    Jens
    from Freistatt, Germany

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