HF T

Sorry, my mistake.

I’ve seen how to do it in the settings page. It’s obviously too early in the morning to be working on a site!

Hi,

I’ve got this exact same problem and I’m glad that I’m not the only one. I’ve got 180 pages indexed with Google 3 times…

Thanks for the ideas Johan, I’ve used the Webmaster Tools parameter ignore function to see if that solves it… It had only picked up ‘action’ and ‘instance’, so I’ve set them to ignor. Will this alone drop the pages from their index and prevent crawling?

In the meantime, that seems like a bit of a ‘botch job’… Where in the theme-my-login-widget.php file can I edit links to nofollow?

Also is there not a way that we can put ‘noindex’ on these pages? That seems to be the only proper way to deal with this…

Many Thanks.

Try de-activating all of your plugins and then re-activating one by one to fine the cause.

As you can see above, mind was caused by a plugin’s script….

Ok thanks, I’ll see how I get on with the pages being dropped from the SEs.

Ah sorry.

So what you’re saying is that that is displaying a custom site 404 which is classed in the http header as a server 404?

But that’s not a server 404. Which as far as Google is concerned, isn’t a 404, it’s just a blank page with ‘404 Error’ as the H1 Title’ which it will probably index as it’s content.

Up until a few weeks ago, I always got server 404 which looked like this… https://www.velvetblues.com/wp-content/uploads/godaddy-404-error.gif

Hi esmi,

Thanks for the advice.

I’ve tried both of those things.

De-activated every plugin and it still does it.

Switched to Twenty Ten and it still does it.

I’m stumped. I’ve got a developer doing some work for me this week so I’ll see if he can work it out.

Any ideas in the mean time from anyone would be great!

Anybody got any idea’s or is this better in the ‘advanced’ forum?

Thanks

Thanks alchymyth,

I’ll try the code to keep the resources down!

Thanks.

Hi,

I said to set it at 755 not 777.

If you’re having further problems, I’d just pick up the phone to GoDaddy, they’re pretty good any you’ll get straight through to tech support. Without looking at your root/db/WP settings, it’s not easy to diagnose, but they’ll have a complete overview of it.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but are you using WP Super Cache?

That does what you’re asking (produce static html rather that a db query) but without the domain change…

Hi t-p,

Thanks for the pointer, however that’s the (ineffective) plugin which I was referring to.

My problem is that I need to delete only posts from ‘category x’ which are over 90 days old however leave the posts in the other categories.

It’s possible to run a MySQL database query to do it but I don’t know if this can be automated through a cron job or similar?

Has anybody got any ideas about that?

Thanks

I wouldn’t worry.

When the migration has completed and your hosting control panel is back, check to see if you’ve got any database. What you’ve done there I think is delete you database instead of wiping it.

As I’ve never done this I don’t know what will happen. I’d imagine that one the switch has completed it will be as it was.

Don’t create one when it comes back online. Instead, make sure the one that was there is deleted, then go to my step 4. From my memory, GoDaddy will setup your DB for the WP install so just let it do that.

Make sure that your root directory is empty before doing that though.

Report back or speak to GoDaddy support if you’ve any issues, they’re normally pretty good.

How did you delete the database?

Sorry, you posted as I was writing that.

1st – Usings FTP client or GoDaddy file manager (in hosting control panel), wipe everything off your root directory.

2nd – Wipe the DB. Go to Hosting Control Panel | Databases | MySQL | Manage via PHP My Admin, then enter your user (the long db name from the previous page) and your password (if you don’t know this, you can change it from the previous page).

Once into PHP My Admin, you’ll most likely have 2 db’s on the left. Find the one with your WP_* tables in (will be named your user name). Check all and select drop and then ok.

3rd – Once both are empty, go back to your GoDaddy My Account page. Select ‘Products’ | Hosting, then click on the domain name NOT launch. Then click on edit account details at the top, select the plan drop-down menu and select the Linux equivalent to your plan (it should have price $0.00) next to it. Accept the changes and then wait for the hosting control panel for that domain (the launch button) to change from Pending Setup to running ok.

4th – Once running ok. Click on install WordPress on the right of your hosting control panel and follow the instructions. You can monitor the progress by refreshing your app manager page which you will end up on.

Hope this helps.