lostpine

You should be able to get to what you need. I have disabled all REST API blocking on the site. I will keep it this way for the next day (24 hr). If this does not do it for you, I will provide admin access but would prefer not to post the password on WordPress. Just send me a private message as to how to get the account information to you.

Yes, WP Cerber is still active. I have found that specific plugin to be very good security. I do not enable REST API for site visitors, only logged in admin and that is limited to me. My original intent was to create .PDF files as an archive of pages. I also wanted to experiment with eBooks but have temporarily put that on hold.

I had some time to work on this and here is the current status:

Taxonomy is now only Categories. I have cleared my tags.

Traffic Inspector shows that REST API is open and working when I issue a request to PRINT MY BLOG.

The Traffic Inspector shows that the operation halts on page 94

/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?context=edit&status=publish&_embed=1&page=94

Little wheel keeps spinning. Since I don’t know exactly what page that is, I do not know whether there is something on the page itself. However, it is a simple page of text and I have hundreds like it so I am not pursuing that concern.

I will periodically work with my Categories themselves to see if there is something theme related. The simple site I used PRINT MY BLOG on that worked is not the same theme but uses pretty much the same plugins.

Thanks for your time. I will be interested to see if removing the dependency on REST API helps this issue.

Just a status check. I did find that I had an old REST API Plugin still active. This has been uninstalled and deleted. I set CERBER to let Admin have access to REST API. I cleared out the way I was doing tags and categories and went with your model recommendations. They are there and appear on the pages and posts correctly. Now when I run your plugin, I am just trying posts, I only have nine. I can see in the CERBER traffic inspector that all of the commands go to REST API but the little wheel keeps spinning. I am not trying to filter anything. So for now, I am just going to stand down on this topic. My feeling is that there is something wrong with my site, either a plugin or the theme. If I get time over the holiday, I will do more diagnostics. Thanks for your efforts in looking at this.

The log probably was not the correct term. Cerber calls it the TRAFFIC INSPECTOR. It shows history of REST API Requests.

I made a screen capture but not sure how to attach it. I am pursuing now your other advice on categories. They don’t seem right on my site so until I make them work correctly, you shouldn’t be too concerned on your plugin. However, I do notice that even when I don’t pick a category, it will not produce a .PDF file (I am assuming this unless I just am not waiting long enough). Site has 940 pages and the category I picked had about 125 pages. These were WP Pages.

Yes, I am using WP Cerber and it disables WP REST API. That disabled function is a recommendation for securing sites. Mine is attacked quite frequently so I tend to default to safe. I opened up REST API for Admin and I can see in the WP Cerber log that there are pages being created. However, it stops at page 94 and I would have expected more.

I also spent some time looking at my CATEGORIES. My theme did not have Page Categories so I added a function to put them in. When I open my dashboard I can click and see the posts if I click on Post categories but when I try to do the same for pages, I get nothing. Do you think that either your plugin is giving up, I am running out of space somewhere or I have a configuration issue with Categories?

@lostpine – I do not have such a setting on my site. Is the Autoptimize a site feature or plugin?

I have the same issue. My site is a 940+ page site. I have tried to both create a full PDF and filter a PDF by categories as well as tags. It just spins. Yet I tried the plugin on another smaller blog I support and it works just fine. If filtering worked, this plugin would be perfect for my intended use, education.

Yes, for example, I have a lot of hostile traffic from amazonaws.com and would love to just stop all traffic. Amazon is providing cover for bad actors. They do no good on my sites and are quite aggressive in attempts to log in or reach admin areas. I looked at trying to load the entire IP range for Amazon AWS but it is too large and complex. When people hide behind private networks, generally they are up to no good, especially when they try to enter a back door area of a site.

I fully agree that “behavior rules” would be a great addition to this plugin. Once someone tries xmlrpc or an attempt to log into admin, for example, they should be permanently blocked. We know that their behavior is suspect. I also think that since you have the ability to resolve an IP Address to the URL and Domain, a list of blocked domains would be another great feature. For example, I have noticed that in the sites I support, amazonaws.com is not a trustworthy source. There are others. I would love to block all traffic from a specific domain.

Question type is: There are 5 correct choices but you only need to pick one of them. There are purposely wrong answers in the list. I do not care which 5, just one of them must be selected from a larger list.

Thank you.

Bob Samson

Well the incognito window did the trick. When I went to rerun the install, it instantly came back with installation complete. Site seems to be working now. Thank you for your assistance. We are still learning how to use this plugin effectively

I flushed cache and waited until 5.0.1 was available. Also switched PGP to 5.6. The plugin asked to be manually updated. When I did I got this far:

* Updating payment items format: 8 items remaining…
* Updating payment items format: 0 items remaining…
* Migrating listing information: 7 items remaining…
* Migrating listing information: 0 items remaining…
* Migrating fee plans…

After that, update stopped. Plugin still shows it is pending updates. Website is floridamuzzleloadersassociation.org

Out of ideas.

This also has happened to my site but with a twist. When the upgrade is actually run, the site will not allow me to go to the dashboard. I was using PHP 5.4 and upgraded to 5.6 but am very reluctant to just try the upgrade again. It takes me about an hour to pull a backup and update the site to a version that is a few days old. My question is whether just changing to 5.6 is sufficient to fix this issue. Yes I saw the prompt that the plugin was being upgraded but being locked out of the dashboard tells me that it could be more serious. Is 5.6 also the fix for the lockout issue on the dashboard?

Thank you for the reply. I assume that i cannot add this type of change in the functions.php so i did spend some time in the .css file. I believe what I was asking for was to lower the “blog-info” block. While I can change its width and height, I do not see where the position is controlled. Is this a modification to an existing rule or an additional rule?