shawfactor

Seriously stop defending your ignorance. This plugin will in some cases be negative to seo, it won’t help it.

410 headers are for content that has existed but is now GONE. Your plugin is deliberately not following this standard as it’s serving all 404s as 410s. Whilst this won’t (generally)harm seo it won’t help it. And it could cause problems when you move a post temporarily from published to draft btw as that content will take much longer to be indexed when it’s republished.

I only care as I looked at this plugin thinking it was doing something neat but then looked at the code and actually realised what it was doing

I’d link to relevant articles but the moderators don’t like external links and in any case it’s only a google search away.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by shawfactor.
• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by shawfactor.
• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by shawfactor.

So there are two aspects to this

Firstly the plugin does support webp, I looked at the code and also tested it and it works perfectly with webp. See an example here where I added a sample webp fle from google (on a fresh install):

https://northerntouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1.sm_.webp

There is one edge case where it may not work (where the webp file had no .webp extension) which I will fix. This is very unusual but may have been what you are seeing

More importantly it is good etiquette to raise issues n the support forums first, rather than trashing the reputation of good plugins, especially ones like this that are provided an supported for free with no up sells in mind

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 5 days ago by shawfactor.

all one more comment before I leave this.

if you study the reviewer activity here on the forums you can see he has a habit of lashing out at people unless he gets the exact outcome he wants.

I was unwilling to help him as I simply cannot make it work with every single plugin or theme (WordPress is incredibly flexible and also some plugins and themes are rubbish). This fact is advertised in the plugin faqs

anyway it works for me on all the sites I run and with over 400 different plugins. Chances are it will work for you

All,

I tried to help @billhector but he is angry that I would not make my plugin compliant with his theme.

@billhector

It works with the vast majority of themes and as I’ve pointed out it’s impossible for me to cater for the 1000s of teams in the repository or 50,000 plus plugins (many of which are poorly coded). Doing so would actually result in a worse plugin btw

more broadly please reconsider this review. I do this for free and I believe I do it well. Lashing out at people trying to help others (because they could not help you) makes things worse for everyone

there is no penalty for using my plugin. If you no longer want to use my plugin just change each post back to publish and then deactivate the plugin (you can use the bulk edit) This is mentioned in the plugin faq here:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lh-archived-post-status/#my%20archived%20posts%20have%20disappeared%20when%20i%20deactivate%20the%20plugin%2C%20why%20is%20this%3F

You’ve confirmed the issue is with the theme, as I suspected. More specifically the probable reason is that my plugin (in its default setting) only filters the main query on the front end. Block themes are very flexible so what you think is the main query may not be (you may be able to change this in the theme, I don’t know)

One last point

my plugin works with the vast majority of themes and plugins, but there are 10s of thousands of both and they can all potentially cause conflicts. Especially as some do things in some very non standard ways. I don’t make money out of my plugin, there are no upsells. It’s something I’ve built, I use, and think is cool. I support it as is and it works for most people. If custom development is required the faq deals with that too

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lh-archived-post-status/#what%20if%20i%20need%20a%20feature%20that%20is%20not%20in%20the%20plugin%3F

I hope you agree everything is simple, straightforward, and documented.

So firstly the the only issue here is that the frontpage is stilll listing archived posts. This should not happen. i have some ideas but I’ll deal with that at the end.

The plugin is not conflicting with itself (it is supposed to be left on and the fact that archived posts disappear entirely is noted in the faq.

It is very difficult so say why you have the issue. But most likely what you think is the main query is being intefered with by another plugin or your theme. As mention in the faq have you deactived all other plugins and switched to a standard twenty something theme? If so does this still occur?

hmm straight from archive to publish should automatically remove the archive date (which is very likely the thing that’s causing the issue) that it doesn’t indicates indicates your installation has other problems

have you tried removing the archive date manually on publish?

I know avada is a theme but as faq functionality would under best practices be in a plugin I thought you were talking about a plugin

nevertheless my point applies, I do not support other people’s plugins or themes on this forum. I’ve outlined your two options and I wish you success with them.

I am resolving for good order but will reopen if aapropriate

it’s seems to works on other themes etc, please see image below:

I do not support other people’s plugins on this forum (there are over 50,000, it would be a fools errand). I suggest you raise it with them or contact me about custom work (instructions on how to do so are in this plugins faq)

I will resolve this for good order but will still monitor the thread and reopen if there is an issue with this plugin.

resolving this for good order but will still monitor and reopen if appropriate

don’t stress it, just non fatal. Thanks for the great plugin and quick fix

Thankyou for the snippet, it will definitely be useful.

you missed the bigger point I made in your PR though. But I’ve addressed that on github

hmm I’ve reviewed the code and the only way this cab happen is if you left the expiry date recorded on the post AND you also transitioned from archive to some other post status (e.g. draft) before (re) publishing the posr

I might make the code a bit tighter to cover the above edge case. But I’d need to think of any other implications

in the mean time you could try either transitioning directly from archive to publish or changing the post to draft and deleting the expiry date before (re)publishing the post

if it’s still

a problem then it’s another plugin interfering with things. In which case deactivate them all and try again.

The snippet does not achieve what I want. I don’t want administrators to have this functionality at all.IE I don’t want them to use it or see it.

From readig the documentation the snippet stops the functionality from working in the front end but that still creates confusion on the back end.

Right now an admin sees an live button in the back end and can set coming soon etc in the back end. I don’t want them have this functionality or see it. We already have better functionality for this in our multisite platform.

More broadly why is this functionality part of the core woocommerce plugin? The functionality seems like it would make far more sense in its own extension…

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by shawfactor.

resolving for good order