jondhill

I have revised our landing page to be clear that we want only submissions for property in the U.S. and we do not want applications for employment via the form, but we are still getting submissions from around the world. I am thinking I might look for a simple way to not display the form for IP addresses outside the U.S., but I am wondering if there is a better solution.

@takayukister It says “USA only” in two places now, but I’ll see about adding another warning before the submit button.

I now seem to be getting just as many or more submissions from non-USA submitters. I am wondering if the site should geo-locate the user’s IP and not display the form for those outside the U.S., but maybe there is a better solution? I am sure others have experienced this problem, so there must be existing solutions available.

Thanks, I updated the form. You can have a look and tell me if you think it is more clear.

However, the submissions we are getting from around the world do NOT look like serious requests, so I am not sure that being more clear about the service area will help. The submitters are not using it to request a roof inspection, but for things like requesting a job (from Pakistan or Dubai, for example).

https://jwconstructiongroup.net/schedule-an-inspection/

For the record, Yoast has confirmed that this database error is a result of a bug in Yoast Local that they may address at some time in the future.

Workaround
Disable the “Enhanced search” feature (SEO > Local SEO > Advanced settings).

Thank you @ironprogrammer. The site doesn’t have navigation to local search, but I tested a url ending with ?s=test and it reproduced the error, thank you very much. Disabling Yoast Local eliminates the problem, so I will get with them next. I also need to implement a UI for getting to local search.

@johnbillion I found a couple plugins that had code for raising the limit with ini_set. Without further investigation I am not sure if they execute that code unless the user is using the admin interface to make changes/edits.

I guess I could do an ini_get to retrieve memory_limit in the footer to see what it is set to at that point.

Is it possible for code to successfully do an ini_set to set a higher limit than what is in php.ini?

Is it possible for WP_MEMORY_LIMIT in wp-config.php to successfully set a limit higher than what is in php.ini?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by jondhill.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by jondhill.

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Regarding your P.S. ,are you hinting that we should also turn off our custom login page?

Obviously the “Disable wp-login.php” options and the custom login page must work for some websites. What might our site be doing that is incompatible with them?

Not sure if this matters, but our user made a few posts before this issue turned up. It seemed to be working until just recently.

Thank you!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by jondhill.

This post saved my day. Thank you!

That’s an amazingly informative and quick response! Thank you!

I want to do a very similar thing to provide a categorized list of PDFs and potentially other media types on a Resources page. I am wondering how dependent my site will be on the MLA plugin if I try this. I am sure the Resources page will not work when the plugin is deactivated or removed, but what about other places where the site links to PDFs and other media objects? Will those continue to work if MLA is deactivated or removed? After MLA is deactivated or removed, will we still be able to see all of the files we added with MLA using the standard Media Library? Is the extra material added to the database to support MLA easily removed if we decide to go a different direction some time in the future?

Thank you! This looks cool!

I was WRONG that my IP was whitelisted. It wasn’t.

I am still interested to know whether a directory or file can be whitelisted.

I just tried from a phone on the cell network and domainname.com/login still redirects to the custom login URL I set in Cerber.

Is this a bug?