Graham Stoney

Probably would have helped if I’d posted a link to the site in question: Confident Man. Sorry folks. Graham

Manually rebuilding the sitemap sometimes gets rid of the bad entries, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them generated in manual builds too.

@crowly: It makes no difference whether it’s the .gz version or not.

@webjunk: There are no articles on my site ending in a number. All such links are invalid when they appear and give 404’s when accessed unless Smart404 happens to spot a match in part of the URL.

I’ve created an Idea for adding a Hidden page visibility to the WordPress core, since many other plugins can use this information. Please vote for it. Thanks, Graham

The problem seems to be intermittent; it comes and goes… I’ve seen it a couple of times before, but never been able to pin it down. Crowly, do you have a live site which is currently affected? Thanks, Graham

I’ve added a suggestion to the ideas database for a “Hidden” page visibility to exclude thank-you pages from site maps, social bookmarking, search engines etc. This would solve your problem; please vote for adding hidden page visibility to the WordPress core.

Well, the admin links to the author’s site don’t work for one thing.

This problem is a bit ugly. Perhaps the fix is to use an add-in architecture similar to MailPress. It’s add-ins are just like WordPress plug-ins, but they’re added via a separate menu. I know you’re stuck with the limitations of the WordPress Admin GUI, but I really don’t like it when I new plugin I’m trying for the first time gives an error on activation.

Cheers, Graham

Thanks for the tips! Here’s what I came up with for my child theme:

/* Heading Sizes Should Scale by Significance */
#content h1 { font-size: 20px; }
#content h2 { font-size: 18px; }
#content h3 { font-size: 16px; }
#content h4 { font-size: 14px; }
#content h5 { font-size: 12px; }

/* Headings Should Be Bold, and have less space after them */
#content h1,
#content h2,
#content h3,
#content h4,
#content h5,
#content h6 {
	font-weight: bold;
	line-height: 1.5em;
	margin: 2px 0 2px 0;
}

/* We don't need such a huge gap after everything */
#content p,
#content ul,
#content ol,
#content dd,
#content pre,
#content hr {
	margin-bottom: 12px;
}

Yes, I understand that H1 is more significant than H2, which is more significant than H3, etc etc. That’s why I’m suggesting it should look more significant; i.e. be in a bigger font size.

It doesn’t make sense to have post content start with H3; for optimal SEO the post title should be H1, the first logical heading level is H2, the second is H3 etc etc. Perhaps this is breaking conventions, but I don’t want my site to be at the top level; it’s the content I want search engines to focus on, not the site itself.

I came to the conclusion that MailPress was best suited to my needs. Cheers, Graham

Frederick, I just want to say “Thanks!” for the fix to this issue. Version 0.9.1.2 that you’ve just released appears to have fixed it. I really appreciate your work on this great caching plugin; I’ll be recommending it to my visitors. Cheers, Graham

Thanks for this awesome plugin Frederick. I’m getting hit by “cannot compile regex” on Apache 1.3 when enabling the browser cache too.
How do we get the development version of W3TC?

This looks like a conflict with the SEO Smart Links plugin; when I disable it, the problem goes away.