slobizman

I got it to work. I had to disable a plugin called AutoOptimize. Strangely, it’s been working fine with this plugin activated until I upgraded Genesis. So, I don’t know.

Thanks Steve. Just being cautious. Yes, I asked for opinions and appreciate yours.

Does anyone have an opinion on the usage of the PHP Compatibility Plugin? Safe to use? Pretty accurate? Sounds like it works well, but doesn’t have a lot of votes.

5.4 is past end of life and is inherently insecure. If you want speed, go to 7.0.

I think that would be only after you’ve contacted every single plugin author — if you can get them to answer — to see if they work on PHP 7, let alone 5.6.

First of all, thank you for the reply. It’s refreshing to see plugin authors involved in the support threads.

I can’t pop the plugin in and activate because the sites make so much Adsense money that just being down even an hour is too costly. Appreciate the offer to check it out though.

As far as the slowest components on Pingdom, it’s all the adsense/analytics stuff. So frustrating that Google wants things fast, and then they slow down the site. ??

My server has gzip already set. Maybe that means that there is no reason that I should set Supercache to compress=on since it would be redundant with gzip. That would be redundant right?

“Try examining you response headers, content.”

Not sure what for for what I should be looking for.

1) I’ve added the noptimize tags and I’m not having any issues! Is this a tag meant solely for your plugin, or is it some other universal tag?

2) As for the ad that was acting funky in the widget, I realize that was on Chrome only, and even did it when I had Autoptimize disabled. I think it might have something to do with my adblocker extension, even though it was set to ignore this my website. Anyway, seems to be working now.

3) You wrote, “additionally; as the problems seem CSS-related, you could also try toggling the “aggregate inline CSS”-option?” I don’t see this option, where is it?

4) My render-blocking errors on Google’s PageSpeed tool is much cleaner now! But I’m still getting the following ones. I see that in the Advanced Options for JS you have exclusions for “seal.js, js/jquery/jquery.js”. So, is jquery.js something that I just keep there despite Google’s tool telling me to remove it? And the two CSS errors are from

Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
https://www.—-.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
https://www.—-.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_543c681cb6e6673a389f7f7016e4589d.css
https://www.—-.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_bb66e8897dce6123eb6a1c274d6f1d7a.css

5) This doesn’t have anything to do with you plugin, but I’m curious of what you might say about it. I use Cloudflare and I tried setting the Auto-Minify (css, js and html) to minify (this is while your plugin is not active), and it doesn’t do anything at all. Just wondering why that could be.

6) THANKS FOR YOUR TERRIFIC SUPPORT!

First of all, thank you so much for your prompt reply. You sure don’t see this often from plugin authors and I am impressed.

First a CLARIFICATION: I had previously told you that I created shortcodes in my Genesis functions.php file that I use to place the ads in the site. That was incorrect (that’s how my other sites work, but in this site’s case) for most cases — I instead used the plugin “AdSense In-Post Ads” for all ads with the exception of an ad on my home page where I just place the adsense code directly into a widget.

So, surprisingly to me are the following tests:

HTML checked (only): In the ad on the home page where the ad code is simply placed in a widget, it allocates space to the ad, but the ad never shows up, showing that tiny icon in the middle that means it can’t display the image Other ads served by placing shortcodes in-content (pages and posts) are fine.

Javascript checked (only): All ads show properly — horizontal and rectangle.

CSS checked (only): No ads at all show up, and no space is allocated to them, EXCEPT the one horizontal on the home page as described in the “HTML checked” note above.

* All ads are responsive if that matters

I would provide you the link to the site, but this particular site is one I don’t like to make public. I’d be happy to send the link to you privately. But I can’t have you look at it while the plugin is running with all checked because ihe site makes a lot of money and even if ads were not working for an hour it’s a significant hit.

Help! I’ve had various problems and I have ranking issues. I just want to go back to where I was before. My ranking was an A+ before this. Can I simply remove what I did at Cloudflare and go back to http? Or did the 301 Permanent Redirect permanently screw that up for me?

Yeah, makes sense to just go ahead and do it anyway. Thanks for your help, James. I really appreciate it.

Thanks James. I had also been asking Cloudflare support about this. Here is there reply:

I believe there is an option to do HTTP rewriting should take requests that have HTTP in front and rewrite them to HTTPS. This is meant for the links on the page, and the assets on the back end. I believe the is an option in the plug-in to activate HTTP rewriting. Otherwise, you can use any number of HTTP rewriting plug-ins that exist for WordPress. This should resolve the issue.

Does that sound right? And when I say right, I mean right like Google is cool with it and I won’t lose any page rankings.

Working now. Thanks.

I held my breath and updated WordPress to 4.5.2 on one of the sites. Success. I then updated WP on two other sites. They worked fine too. After that WP updated itself to 4.5.3 on all sites, and they are still working just fine.

FYI: In case it helps, I’m running the Genesis framework on all the sites.

@beneqo

thanks for you reply!

@beneqo:

The pages that include Post Snippets shortcodes all still appear, but just show the raw snippets code (for example https://saltofthesound.com/inspiration/christian-meditation-music/ – scroll down to the body of the article to see what I mean).

I saw it when it wasn’t working at first, but I just looked now and I don’t see the shortcodes. Is it working now, or did you just remove or replace the shortcodes?