Josefus Flavius

I tried replying via your contact form, but I kept getting a Server Error in ‘/’ Application. from your contact form server.

I removed script code that I had included in my message (there was no way to include a screenshot of the console error report), but I kept getting the server error, maybe unrelated to my message. However, the two errors found via the console had to do with statcounter script and linkeIn script that the review system didn’t like. There were no website related errors, which is a good indication.

On the tags: As I indicated earlier, this is a static website. I don’t have any posts on this site, or a blog setup, so I don’t believe I can add categories. It seems to me that this would also suggest the problem is with the saving function, not with a category-related issue. But here I venture beyond my actual knowledge…

Many thanks for your attention to this!
JF

Thanks, post edited. I’ll do what I can and send you the results directly.

So, this is a static site with a Homepage, About page and a Contact page (and a Page Not Found page). No tags or categories, unless the owner adds a blog, which is highly unlikely.

I viewed the page source and, as best as I can tell, it looks normal. I’m not sure how to identify a javascript error. This one goes beyond my knowledge. But you can view source and Inspect, no?

I imagine it’s just the saving setting function…

Please let me know if I can help.

Thanks!
JF

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Josefus Flavius.

Thank you for the very quick reply!

Yes, the table exists. And when I click on it, the following info is provided:

“MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows).”

That doesn’t sound good, obviously.

As to my setup, the current set up started as ver. 2.05 and after it worked I updated (via WP > Plugins) to 2.07. After the update, I confirmed that my prior settings were retained. As of right now, it generates sitemap.xml properly, and google can see it and read it. So this might be the only problem.

And, it’s as simple a WP site as you get: 4 pages, very few plugins, all standard issue, nothing fancy or newly-developed.

Thanks again!
JF

Of course. I am an experienced WP user. ??

And I tried several times, on each of my site’s 4 pages. And also looked for maybe a check box on the main settings page that would enable/disable individual page settings, but didn’t find one.

Following html hierarchy logic, settings on the page should override the generic settings, I think. Yet, they didn’t “take.”

Again, I very much appreciate your help on this.
JF

Thank you again for taking the time to review this so carefully!

You were correct on my confusing another of your products with the WP plugin. My apologies.

And you were right: an older sitemap plugin left an old sitemap.xml file which prevented this plugin from working properly. After I followed your advice to create a sitemap2.xml file, I looked for that older file and removed it. Once removed, all started working correctly. I then upgraded from 2.05 to 2.07 and it works.

BUT… I wanted to individually control inclusion/exclusion of each of the 4 pages of this website in the sitemap. But, after I make my choices on the page editor, once saved, the plugin box on the page editor reverts to “default” for all 3 settings, which indicates the individual per page settings didn’t “take”. This is true for both ver. 2.05 and 2.07.

Any suggestions on how I correct this?

Thank you again!
JF

Thank you very much for troubleshooting it. I really appreciate it.

Yes, it was an older sitemap plugin, which I properly deleted. So I went back, deleted your plugin, and the wp_sitemap table and looked for any traces of the old plugin in the directories but didn’t see any.

Then I reinstalled your ver 2.05. Now your plugin is in the plugin directory on the server, and the readme.txt file is clearly for your ver 2.05, etc.

But I’m afraid I’m back to where I was before — maybe because bits of the old plugin is still there? If you’d share with me how you generated this code/text, I could try troubleshooting it myself…

My Firefox is still generating an error when I look for https://www.dianarevkin.com/sitemap.xml (which is how I designated the sitemap page).

And I’m still not clear why I don’t see the Basic and Advance settings page. Is it possible because I didn’t enter an email associated with this install?

Thank you again,
JF

Thank you. Just installed 2.05 and same results. Maybe I’m missing something.
I don’t see the Basic and Advanced Settings as shown on the website, here:
https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/help/advanced-sitemap-settings.aspx

Maybe my installation failed?

to see what I see, please go here: https://www.dianarevkin.com/sitemap.xml

Also, from other sitemap plugins I used in the past, there was a button or process to generate a new sitemap manually. I don’t see one.

Thank you again,
JF

I installed ver 2.06 a couple of days ago on a simple 3-page website. Updated just now to 2.07. The plugin appears not to generate a sitemap. Google webmaster tools reported a problem finding a sitemap.

Until the problem is resolved, would you please provide a link to the prior version (probably 2.05) so it can be used temporarily?

Many thanks

Simple: When I use an email address associated with the website and based on the hosting server, I get the CF7 messages. When a gmail address is specified, I don’t get them.

I believe it might have to do with spam. I am going to use the server’s email addresses and have gmail pick up that mail. I will use the server’s spam filters.

I will also add Flamingo, to make sure I’m not losing any mail. Am I correct to assume that Flamingo will save all mail, including the spam that gets thru the built-in Input Verification?

Thank you again for your help!
JF

UPDATED BELOW:

Thank you very much — I really appreciate your advice.

The only reported error is the following:
“Sender email address does not belong to the site domain.”

Just to be absolutely clear, here are my settings under the Mail tab:

TO [email protected] // this is the site’s official email address

FROM [your-name] <[your-email]> // I think this is how the form has been set for a long time — or maybe it was a revision made in the recent update? — but now it appears this is flagged as an error (the box is shown in red). I thought this picks up the message author’s address and therefore it need not be a my-site.com email address. No?

UPDATE:

I believe I corrected the error by revising the Mail tab as follows:

TO [email protected]

FROM [your-name] [email protected]

The error message is now gone.

However, when I tried using the TO address as gmail (as in your example, here:
https://contactform7.com/admin-screen/), gmail seems to be blocking it. Until very recently, gmail worked very well with CF7.

I could really use help to correct this last problem.

Thank you again,
JF

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Josefus Flavius.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Josefus Flavius.

Thank you for your replies and I will pursue the user’s rights issue separately.

Right, I know that the order of the CSS is key.

I too use Firefox and upon closer inspection I see that the plugin’s CSS overrides the theme’s CSS (my customized inputs).

For example, for the Current (page) button:

Here’s the CSS code in effect (directly from the plugin settings (Grey Buttons selected):

.wp-paginate .current {
color: #fff;
background: #5f87ae;
border: 1px solid #89adcf;
margin-right: 4px;
padding: 4px 8px;
}

Here’s what the Firefox inspector shows as overridden (my customization, shown in the FF inspector as stricken-thru, which you cannot see on this page:

.wp-paginate .current {
background: #eaeadf;
color: #333333;
font-weight: bold;
}

Similarly,

Here’s my customized code:

.wp-paginate a:hover, .wp-paginate a:active {
background: #eaeadf;
color: #333333;
}

And here’s what the plugin applies (its own CSS):

.wp-paginate a:hover, .wp-paginate a:active {
background: #ccc;
color: #888;
}

As you can see, my coding format is identical to the standard CSS the plugin uses…

Just a couple of examples, there are others.

One correction: I see now see that the plugin CSS is applied entirely, overriding *all* of my CSS, not as I might have stated earlier.

So, this suggests that the CSS code of the plugin loads last. Not sure why, or how I can change it.

Of course, having access to the plugin CSS tab could have solved this problem…

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks again,
JF

UPDATE:

Please ignore the part on the theme’s directory structure… This appears to be a mirroring of the traditional WP theme because all the files appear in both locations and the CSS editing I did can be found in both. Therefore, it is my expectation that the theme CSS would override the plugin CSS which, as I said, happens only partially.

My earlier post is pasted below.

Thank you again,
JF

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Thank you for replying, Alan.

The problem isn’t so much accessing the Custom CSS tab (the URL is identical to the one you provided), but what happens when I get there: I get the following: “You do not have sufficient permissions to edit plugins for this site.” However, as I said, I am the Admin of the site (the original creator and primary user of the site). I have a screenshot of the message, but I don’t see a place to upload it to.

I’m running this on a local server (on my PC), but WP is set to run on it and the rest of the site functions in every respect — as does this plugin, except for control of CSS.

Could you point me to where the “sufficient permissions” warning comes from? Presumably from within the plugin upon doing a user’s rights check. Maybe there’s something in my WP settings I need to review/revise? I am already an Admin, so not sure what else there might be.

My theme (Thesis 2.8.5) has an elaborate, and very effective, CSS customization page. It works very well. However, most of the theme files do not reside in the typical directory structure (but some do). See the diff:

TYPICAL: wp-content > themes > theme-name

Thesis: in *addition* to the above… the main directories are here:

wp-content > thesis > thesis skins > skin name [pearsonified] > css files

Is there something in this directory structure that would trip the plugin, in terms of CSS?

I am fairly experienced with CSS editing and have built several sites… The odd thing here is that I’m able to control some of the styling bits (remove most button backgrounds, apply a new border) but not others (say, border and font color, and the current and hover background colors). I think I’m following CSS rules correctly — not too difficult when you cut and paste, following the element names, etc.

Would greatly appreciate your advice, especially on being able to use the plugin’s CSS tab.

JF

Thank you for replying, Alan.

The problem isn’t so much accessing the Custom CSS tab (the URL is identical to the one you provided), but what happens when I get there: I get the following: “You do not have sufficient permissions to edit plugins for this site.” However, as I said, I am the Admin of the site (the original creator and primary user of the site). I have a screenshot of the message, but I don’t see a place to upload it to.

I’m running this on a local server (on my PC), but WP is set to run on it and the rest of the site functions in every respect — as does this plugin, except for control of CSS.

Could you point me to where the “sufficient permissions” warning comes from? Presumably from within the plugin upon doing a user’s rights check. Maybe there’s something in my WP settings I need to review/revise? I am already an Admin, so not sure what else there might be.

My theme (Thesis 2.8.5) has an elaborate, and very effective, CSS customization page. It works very well. However, most of the theme files do not reside in the typical directory structure (but some do). See the diff:

TYPICAL: wp-content > themes > theme-name

Thesis: in *addition* to the above… the main directories are here:

wp-content > thesis > thesis skins > skin name [pearsonified] > css files

Is there something in this directory structure that would trip the plugin, in terms of CSS?

I am fairly experienced with CSS editing and have built several sites… The odd thing here is that I’m able to control some of the styling bits (remove most button backgrounds, apply a new border) but not others (say, border and font color, and the current and hover background colors). I think I’m following CSS rules correctly — not too difficult when you cut and paste, following the element names, etc.

Would greatly appreciate your advice, especially on being able to use the plugin’s CSS tab.

JF

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Josefus Flavius.

Thanks, Emre. Will do. But…

I am quite sure it’s the latest version that’s causing the problem, not the Premium. I just activated the Premium (ver. 1.5.3) under ver. 0.8.9.3 and it’s working fine. But when running under ver. 0.8.9.4, I encounter the problems reported above.

Thank you again.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Josefus Flavius.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Josefus Flavius.