Sapphire

It’s every new post on any of my sites, so I suspect it’s a Pinterest change or a recent update to Scriptless.

I’ve set a post up for you on a non-production site. Try pinning it. The Scriptless description is the same as the one sentence in the post. But Pinterest picks up the title tag name as description instead.

https://retrofoodfinds.com/posts/lemon-meringue-pie/

That seems to work, but I can’t imagine explaining that to my volunteer writers. Now I’ll have to publish every post myself, which adds to my workload.

Wordpress used to leave the slug alone if you had deliberately changed it. Like it was programmed to assume if the slug didn’t match the title, that was something you’d done on purpose. I don’t understand this change. There should be an option to turn this off or – ugh – yet another plugin to add to the bloat.

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I installed this code as a snippet, and got the option for a Tumblr button, but that’s not what I want. I wanted Yummly – and Mastodon – so I tried to change the above code according to Yummly’s instructions on adding a button, but it didn’t work.

How do we find the correct code?

Yes, it’s working now. Thank you!

Same. I write articles, not landing pages. Block editors slow me down and interfere with the process. Many features, like word count and the permanent URL when you’re editing existing posts, that are right there in Classic are a couple of clicks away in Gutenberg. It’s more clicks to edit HTML, too, which is something I have to do fairly often. And a lot of people who love block editors do not like Gutenberg. If WordPress or the devs for plugins I need stops supporting Classic, we’ll need a new third-party editor plugin that works like TinyMCE. Gutenberg should have been a plug-in.

Is this something WordPress would like to support but can’t due to Gutenberg limitations, or a feature WordPress is abandoning? Gutenberg requires so much editing in HTML that I feel like I’ve gotten nostalgic for 1998 and writing my websites in Notepad.

Marking as resolved.

I worked with my host and another tech yesterday, and between their suggestions and yours, everything is fixed now.

–Admin color scheme had an orphaned option left from a plugin to give Gutenberg custom colors.

–Genesis theme settings are holding so far. Not sure what fixed that.

–Slash issue caused by one little setting in TinyMCE Advanced… which is interesting, because I didn’t configure the plugin when I installed it on all my sites, and the settings came out different just on this one site.

–Auto-updating seems to be back with the reactivation of cron.

I agree. I’ve been using it for about 4 months, and I just keep finding more bugs that are deal-breakers as far as I’m concerned. Some of them have been around for years, and the fixes exist, but they just haven’t been put into core updates. And yes, I know the developers have a lot on their plates and I’m sure they work hard. But maybe Gutenberg shouldn’t have been released in such a hurry. I think they were afraid of losing people to other CMSs and panicked.

Well, this is embarrassing. I had disabled cron for testing months ago and forgot to undo that. It’s fixed now. I’m now able to change featured images, and I’m betting the auto updates will be working now (I’m assuming that’s a cron job called “wp_update_plugins” which is scheduled for 3:05am tomorrow).

However, I still can’t change that admin color scheme. And typing the slash in a new block in Gutenberg still doesn’t bring up the expected list of block types like it does on my other sites.

The latest changes I made in my Genesis theme settings are sticking so far, so that problem may be resolved.

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Okay, I just installed Wordfence on another site I have (again, they’re all very similar setups) and it found NO overdue cron jobs on the other site (which is working perfectly).

I deleted the cron jobs with another plugin. Then I figured out how to get Wordfence doing a scan (not sure I did it correctly before). It’s taking forever, but it found an odd jpg file in my wp-admin folder called “phpBqqocS-253×60.jpg”. I deleted it manually already because it doesn’t belong there and it does sound suspicious.

However, cron jobs still are not executing. If I refresh the Diagnostics in Wordfence every few minutes, I’ll see another cron job has joined the “overdue” pile. So maybe there’s something going on with Cron?

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There is no caching through host and I don’t use a CDN. Everything is up to date normally (I left the plugins that need updating alone to test a couple of solutions to the auto-updates, but I can update those manually in about a minute).

My host has looked at malware and not found any – they are good at detecting it. I installed Wordfence and started a scan an hour or so ago, but it’s stuck at 70%. I’m not sure I know what I’m doing. Diagnostics seems to report everything being right.

There are a lot of “overdue” cron files, however. They start on February 2, which could be when this began. Some seem to be from plugins I no longer have. The first is:

wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files

From reading, I think that’s a core WP function?

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Thanks for all your help and for sticking with it. I learned a little about debugging, so that was time well spent. ??

My database method works! I can fix these manually, and the new replacement tags are editable.

You lose about 15% of your SEO value when you create a redirect and sometimes it never comes back. I really need to keep it the same link.