anim8tr

Yes, the original redirect issue to the “Coming Soon” page is resolved, but only because I have disabled WooCommerce on my live site. I’ll continue to work on this content on my Staging server.

That said, I haven’t tested your suggestion in your post above though. It sounded like it should work, but because I’ve now moved my test site to a staging server I haven’t tested it.

Thank you for everyone’s help on this though. It’s wonderful to see such a responsive group !!!

All very interesting. My live Shop IS currently at shop.chipjonesstudio.com, so the link you mentioned (/shop) is not too critical at this point. I’ll do a DNS change when needed.

What I am trying to do is create a WooCommerce site behind the scenes and then have that go live when that’s all done. Maybe I should be doing all of my behind the scenes work on a staging server ?? (duh!)

• This reply was modified 3 months, 4 weeks ago by anim8tr.

Sorry for the delayed response. I’m finally at home where I can test the logged-in Admin settings on a desktop and mobile device. I do see different content when I am logged in. Both desktop and mobile devices DO act the same whether or not I’m logged in as an Admin or not.

That said, it’s only the Terms and Conditions page that is acting differently if logged in as an Admin. The Privacy Policy content always shows regardless of if I’m logged in or not.

I reviewed the URL you sent (“Coming Soon Mode“). In this, both pages (PP and T&C) are considered Store Pages, but it’s only the Terms and Conditions page that shows up with the Coming Soon (if NOT logged in). So there’s also different behavior between both those pages regardless of Mobile vs Desktop.

Is it possible to make the T&C page a non-Store page so that it shows up without Coming Soon content?

• This reply was modified 4 months ago by anim8tr.
• This reply was modified 4 months ago by anim8tr.
• This reply was modified 4 months ago by anim8tr.

Thanks for that suggestion. I logged in as an Admin on my mobile device and you are correct, the T&C page showed up as created. After logging out, that url went back to showing the “Coming Soon” content. What I’m hoping for is to NOT show the “Coming Soon” content for the live T&C page. I have not tested this on my desktop yet because I’m out of town right now. I’ll check that out in a few days.

Thank you for the suggestions. I double-checked all of the settings you mentioned and did not find any plug-in or setting that would redirect a mobile based T&C link to a “Coming Soon” page OR any mobile specific setting that would do this.

I even disabled all WC payment plug-ins, cleared my cache and retried to no avail. Lastly I copied the link to the “Coming Soon” content that I am redirected to (when clicking on the T&C link on a mobile device) and tried that same link on my desktop. On my desktop it shows the correct T&C content, not the Coming Soon content. Not sure what the trigger is for “Coming soon” on the T&C page, but it’s still not working correctly when using a mobile device.

It’s possible that I should just have different T&C content for a content only site vs a site with content and commerce until I go live with WC…

• This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by anim8tr.

Oops, sorry I’m running PHP 7.3.33, NOT 7.4.33. I’ll update to 7.4+.

Okay, now seems to be working. Not sure why the original issue… likely some sort of delay on Google’s side or possibly some sort of caching thing.

Okay, thanks for the info. Does the dot in the URL need to be escaped? for example: domain\.com

After a couple of changes, it looks like my subdomain is now being tracked in GA. What I did was set “_setAllowHash” to false (by checking the box).

I missed this because it was further down the settings page. It would make more sense to position this option under the “Subdomain Tracking” setting towards the top. It would also be nice to have better help doc for this plugin.

Yep, I saw the doc. It’s pretty much the same as the tracking code that’s generated by Google Analytics for WordPress.

I’m wondering if the issue is that even though my blog is setup as a subdomain, it’s actually on a different Host/IP than my primary domain?

Question… what type of RegEx does Redirection use. Is it Posix or something else?

The folder you uploaded into the plugins directory is actually the wrong one. The correct folder is actually a subdirectory of the folder you uploaded. It is called:
“ultimate-plugins-smart-update-pinger”

You uploaded it’s parent:
“ultimateplugins.com-smart-update-pinger”

Try that and see if it works better. Also, be sure to follow the installation instructions. There are some additional steps you need to follow.

esmi, thanks for the orientation. I appreciate it very much!

Ooops, need to claify mt example a bit…

For example, using a Winter Olympics theme, the site architecture would be:
Home -> Sports – > Athletes -> Specific Athletes with postings about each athlete

So, each sub-category Page (Specific Athletes) would have a paragraph or two about a specific athelete followed by a listing all the posts about that athelete.

I’m the architecture as Category -> Sub-Category -> Tags.

Is there a way to display posts by Category -> Tag?

Thanks… This last one displays posts based on the category. What if I wanted to display posts based on a subcategory or a tag?

Again, this is a really basic question, but the way I am envisioning the architecture of my site would be to have maybe five basic categories, with topic areas related ro each category.

For example, using a Winter Olympics theme, the site architecture would be:
Home -> Sports – > Athletes -> Postings about specific athletes

So, each sub-category Page (Athletes) would have a paragraph or two about a specific athelete followed by a listing all the posts about that athelete.

Based on this, I was envisioning a category like Sports, a subcategory of Athletes, and then a tagging structure using the athletes name.

Would this be a good approach? I want to try to implement a solution that can be in place for a while…