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@csm101 I am using Akismet which should theoretically be helping with comment form SPAM (though I can’t find any settings to that effect). More importantly, I replaced the Jetpack contact form block with one from Kadence, which has an option for non-captcha anti-spam built in already.

No worries, I uninstalled it and found another solution.

https://www.1winedude.com/contact-joe/

Thanks for your suggestions.
It turned out to be a lot faster for me to just uninstall Hummingbird and replace it with another plugin.

Spoke too soon!

Making ANY changes to AO after the reset puts Hummingbird into a sort of loop where it is saying caching is disabled while AO configures. It then reenables caching only to go back to disabling/purging it.

I went ahead and rest all settings as you suggested, so that it could activate AO first and step through the initial setup again. It appears to be working correctly now for Page Caching (though I did for some reason have to manually update htaccess to get GZip compression working again, not sure why). Thanks.

Thanks.

I have only tried automatic mode.

In the debug log, I am seeing messages such as “Skipping page. Used PURGE method. Only GET allowed” and “Page not cached because of active cron or ajax request.” as well as
“[2022-12-07T18:40:58+00:00] HTML corrupt. Page not cached.
[2022-12-07T18:40:58+00:00] Page not cached. Sending buffer to user.
[2022-12-07T18:40:58+00:00] Cache directory purged
[2022-12-07T18:40:58+00:00] Loading config file.”

and

“[2022-12-07T18:41:04+00:00] Cached file not found. Passing to ob_start.
[2022-12-07T18:41:04+00:00] HTML corrupt. Page not cached.
[2022-12-07T18:41:04+00:00] Page not cached. Sending buffer to user.”

Thanks, Marko. Removing the lines from .htaccess and then upgrading via the dashboard looks to have resolved the issue.

@ryancowles Thanks, it’s https://www.1winedude.com

I’m not going to be able to try a full uninstall/reinstall for a week or two.

>> Okay, it’s not the Firewall then. It’s something else. The question is what.

If I revert to the last pre-firewall version of WF, it behaves normally.

>> 1. Does the adsense code look intact when you view the source of the page?

Yes, and it is defaulting to displaying whatever is set on the Google end when it is unable to display ads (my own custom banner, or colored rectangle, etc.).

>> 2. Have you tried viewing the pages where the ads fail with a browser console open? (Check for any javascript or net/http errors).

Yes, that code appears to be functioning as designed.

Thanks.

Nope; it’s been in learning mode the entire time, actually.

Thanks.

1. No, it’s all PHP / code.

2. Nope.

3. No. The odd thing is that the ad code may actually be running, but Adsense is defaulting to the backup ad I specified (when it cannot run its own ads); this behavior corrects if I revert back to the last pre-firewall version of Wordfence.

Thanks for the help. Or not.

Sorry, I understand what you’re saying but it hardly seems worth the effort or expense on my part at this point.

I’m actually seeing WP SS reporting fewer Visits than Google, which historically for my site has reported on the lower end (WP SS usually reported on the higher end) in non-JS mode, which seems really odd to me.