jvsouthwood

Thanks for the reassurance. I am using these exiting tools mainly for performance reasons – as an alternative to installing a new plugin which could bring it down. And, as I coded it, I can future-proof to some extent as I can export/import at will.

If someone were to highlight that this could/should be done better using custom fields or some other means, I would be interested, otherwise I’ll go with it – just running a sanity check.

Hi, thanks so much for considering it. Apologies, I must not have stated it well enough, but I was meaning more misuse from a technical perspective. I.e. is this a bad hack, or else a reasonable tech solution to my needs? The users are all my registered members and I consider GDPR elsewhere. Thank you!

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by jvsouthwood.

Hi, it seems to be fixed, yes. Thanks for alerting me ??

After trying everything, I come away thinking that the coincidence was that the bad gateway error caused by the plugin update (fixed within 10-20 minutes) just *happened* to coincide with a google crawl. And that subsequently google decided that the site didn’t exist for a few days. All’s well now though.

Yep, the result in Google’s robots.txt tester is the title of this thread:

Robots.txt cannot be fetched
You have a robots.txt file that we are currently unable to fetch. In such cases we stop crawling your site until we get hold of a robots.txt, or fall back to the last known good robots.txt file

As I said, this all started when an update to yoast took my site down on 27 July, so I am trying anything, any ideas at all to get back my indexing.

(Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json is from WP-optimise to guard against access to plugins, it’s fine and recommended, but I have removed the plugin now to eliminate possible causes).

Any ideas why google will not even look at my robots.txt in live testing? Anyone come across this before?

It was by using the google robots Tester and not getting joy (original opening para) that prompted me to ask why it might be happening.

When you say ‘doesn’t look look it is using standard rules’ what in particular are you seeing? I am using a recommended version. Thanks.

Thank you!

Oh, this is beautiful! Works perfectly. Thanks for sticking with my question!

Sorry, I should have specified more clearly that I am talking about the elements which are displayed when a user is restricted from viewing the page. (E.g. as you would be on the links above).

I do not wish for the featured image to display on the posts when viewed unrestricted, but only alongside the excerpt for restricted access users. This appears to be the default behaviour on other themes (link 2 in above post), but Kadence is, it seems, not calling the featured image on access-restricted pages.

Might I get round it by switching the Kadence setting to ‘Show Featured image’ and then adding some custom css with display:none for that element on the unrestricted page? If that sounds reasonable, can you think what it would be?

Hi thanks. I have ‘show featured image’ set as off, as I don’t want it to display on the posts themselves. It still appears in archive layout.

Hi Ben,
Thanks. Compare these two:

1 Live site, Kadence theme, featured image is not called.
https://londonsavate.co.uk/online-academy/lessons/20-minutes-of-footwork-leg-strength-drills/

2 Staging site, otherwise identical but switched to twentytwenty-one theme, and featured image does show.
https://staging2.londonsavate.co.uk/online-academy/lessons/20-minutes-of-footwork-leg-strength-drills/

When I view source I cam see different handling of has-post-thumbnail and figure class. But I am not quite sure what I need to look for in order to make any adjustment.

By this comparison it would seem to be a difference in how the theme is handling it, rather than the membership plugin, right?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Yes, I had already tried different case combinations (previous post)

But I will concede I must have gone through it too quickly, as I can now get it to work. Mission accomplished! Thanks for your help.

Hi, thanks. When I said I had already tried it and nothing happens, that’s what I had tried. Letter for letter exactly as you have indicated, and with other case combinations for good measure – no change. https://snipboard.io/4ThCPv.jpg

I can make Saywhat work for other strings, however, – eg I can change ‘You have not completed any courses yet.’ to ‘You have not done anything’, for example, successfully. So I can use the plugin fine. Looking at the Sensei-lms repo, the two example strings here are handled differently. Any idea how I can force it to work for ‘View the lesson quiz’?

Either download here under ‘Previous Versions’ and upload to your plugin folder: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/form-maker/advanced/

Or use a plugin such as WP Rollback to make it easier (although test it first)
https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-rollback/

Just rolled back to version 1.13.5 and it works again. I suggest you do the same until it is fixed.

So sorry – I thought I had posted a reply on this.

I updated PhP and it all works smoothly. Thanks for helping me when it wasn’t your issue.