ausworkshop

Thanks William but I can’t seem to get it to stick. When I go back to that setting it’s changed back to ‘Yes’ showing the related image heading down the bottom of each page. How do I roll back? My site is handcraftedtimber.com

I recently turned off my Jetpack sitemap because I read that having two may cause issues. I have the Yoast one on as I thought that would be better but since then my rankings have dropped. I’m hoping they will improve again soon, seems risky to do any changes I think.

I also had quite a few URLs suddenly go 404 around the same time. Had to redirect over 30 of them as I had warnings from Search Console. I’m really hoping I didn’t make things worse and that my rankings will eventually improve again.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by ausworkshop.

AWESOME!
Thanks, I had the same problem, was about to give up for the night then read this and followed the instructions to start from scratch and it now works.

Thanks heaps, I have been running the same website for 17 years and now this is the first time I have got my Google reviews displaying on there.

I’m so happy now.

I’ve tried adding that CSS, cleared cache everywhere but still the SSSSS instead of stars ??

Hi Suzi, I must admit I thought it was a bit strange. All I know is this stuff wastes so much of my time these days. 15 years trying to run a website and I never seem to get any better. More things break now than ever. I’m left scratching my head trying to work out if it’s something I can even fix or if it’s worth spending hours reading in forums when I seem to be the only one with the problem. Never know who to ask for help. Paranoid I’m missing out on potential sales, it will just break again at random if I don’t test it everyday in the live environment. I have enough things slowing me down without problems accepting payments through a simple shopping cart. It’s 2019, not exactly new technology yet it is very unreliable and frustrating for a small one man business who don’t have tech departments or in house geeks to turn to.

Thanks Amanda. Unfortunately I am my own theme developer these days I just kind of got it all running myself from a very basic framework. WooCommerce came later and I’ve just learnt as I go along but don’t have the time to learn it well.

I do have Storefront. But in the end I just uninstalled Square and went with Stripe instead and it’s now working so I’m not messing with it now sorry but if I ever find out what caused it I’ll get back to you. I still use Square for most of my other business and invoices just not on my cart now.

Please explain more. In what way were you breached?

Yep, did they even test this? Unbelievable!

I tend to agree. I’m sick of these over hyped over paid tech idiots ruining my life in so many ways while they get richer and slow down my business with their bright ideas and endless upgrades.

I really thought WP was something I could rely on, I thought they at least had half a clue.

Mine is working again! Google must have changed something because I left everything as it was and now it’s working again so hang in there, it might come good for you too one day. Just wish we knew what was going on.

It’s got even worse…. Now when I right click to copy the customer’s email from my form (so I can paste it) another window opens up as a compose box. It seems Google is assuming I want to send that person a whole new email rather than simply replying and keeping it all in the same conversation thread (avoid confusion).

So just when I got used to this extra step of copy and paste I now have an extra step of having to close this annoying pop-up window in between scrolling up and down from the original form entry to the reply I have started and am pasting into.

Ridiculous waste of time! So annoying when something I do every day just gets more and more complicated because someone at Google decides to experiment with a new way of doing things then try to force it upon us as the right way.

Does anyone who actually uses Gmail test these things first before implementing changes upon us all? Or is it just some crazy idea they come up with in a quick meeting while on their way to a long lunch?

Let’s add extra steps to everyone’s lives and complicate it further for them.
Great idea!

Firstly thanks for making this plugin, I appreciate it and will make a donation if I continue to use it.

I have the same issue, although I’m not as rude as that other person and don’t expect you to fix it in 2 days right on Christmas free of charge!

Just letting you know it’s been annoying me a bit as well. Won’t go away but if this is normal I will just put up with it for now. Also not sure what size my logo needs to be, it keeps telling me it’s not the right size and I’ve tried numerous small and large, square and rectangle. I’m trying sizes that work ok for my logo on all my other places, both .jpg and .png. Not sure if I should ignore the message about that as well. Perhaps that is what is triggering the other message on the dashboard?

‘WooCommerce Gift Coupon plugin has been activated. Please go to the plugin’s settings and configure this plugin’

I think it’s all working fine apart from this, although no-one has bought one yet to try it out ??

That’s the conclusion I came to as well, wasted so much time on this, even spoke to a few people at Google who aren’t even aware of the problem it seems, let alone admit to it. Forget about the extra step involved in actually fixing it for us. Obviously too hard for them to look after their paying customers. Too big to care it seems. They could at least look into it for us when we tell them, instead we have to do all the running around trying to find who is at fault. Crazy world we live in where the giant companies of this world sell us an empty box then we have to fill it with a product and maintain it, fault find it and keep it working for them to keep making money from it. While they use this money to develop and create ‘updates’ that wreak havoc worldwide and costs businesses money and time. Then ignore us when we question their product.

I’ve been told by Google to contact the plugin author as it is not their problem!
Which plugin author?
WpForms?
ContactForm7?
Gravity?

The problem is obviously Gmail for sure. Probably a new security thing we all just have to live with. Perhaps they have no intention of fixing it, perhaps it was done deliberately.
Months go by and no-one involved answers these questions while 1000’s of us wait and try to get on with life.

And I’m using the same email account to send as, when using my phone and when using the desktop (where it doesn’t work), so the issue is not what you set as ‘send as’ in your gmail because it works from my phone with that same account and email address.

It worked fine for over 2 years for me, I didn’t change a thing then it just stopped working recently on my desktop.

Thanks, Do you mean the admin email in WP? …I tried that, didn’t work, so I set it all back to the way it was until I find out for sure what is going on.

I have noticed that if I reply to my form using Gmail on my phone (Android) it still works and has the correct email in the To field.

So it only started happening for me on the desktop (where I need it most).
I’m still thinking it’s a Google thing, only started happening recently, WPForms is doing the same thing now as is Contactform7. The one thing in common is they all come in to my Gmail Inbox.

I’ve tried various things to fix.
I’ve now removed Contact form 7 and just using WPForms but the same issue remains.
Only on desktop, perhaps it’s a chrome thing?
Is everyone else who this is happening to using GSuite?

I don’t like to go messing with all my setting spending hours trying to fix until we at least find out what caused it.
This was all working fine.
Somebody changed something with an update and now we spend hours looking in all directions without knowing what caused it in the first place.
SOMETHING CHANGED!
I spoke to Google last week and they say the issue must be with the plugin and to contact the author.
Both plugins are doing it and only if using a desktop (Chrome browser) to do my emails.

Is the issue with Chrome?
GSuite?
Who knows?
Someone must have the answer to this at least.
Then we can work out a decent fix for everyone.