soupaddict

Again, you don’t understand what your own plugin is even doing. YOUR PLUGIN is generating sitemaps for those attachment files. The sitemap is not where files are 410’d, so, your reply doesn’t even make any sense. There’s no reason to generate a sitemap for the attachment files. All you’re doing is creating a never-ending loop of indexing and 410s.

I had installed this plugin when it first came out, so, it’s been running for, what, 10 months? 12 months? There’s no hope of Google actually 410’ing those URLs as long as they keep being resurrected by the attachment file sitemaps. You don’t 410 URLs that are in the sitemap. That’s why Google is throwing errors – it’s thinking a mistake is being made.

I deactivated the plugin last week, and the two attachment file sitemaps are no longer a part of the sitemap collection. Maybe now everything will actually go away, given time.

You do realize, though, that it’s now a vicious circle: the sitemap causes Google to reindex the attachment files, and the plugin attempts to 410’s them … which it doesn’t.

It’s been almost a year, and all of my attachment files (11 years’ worth) are still appearing in GSC.

All of those attachment files now show up as crawl errors in GSC. All of them. You can watch this vicious circle right in my GSC: Google indexes the first attachment sitemap. Crawl errors go up by exactly 1,000 pages. A few days later, they get 410’d (apparently), and the crawl errors go back down. A few days later, Google indexes the attachment sitemap again. The crawl errors go right back up. (This happens with the 2nd attachment sitemap, too, in a separate cycle).

Believe me, no one wishes more than I that I had just sat tight and changed the media redirect setting, and let things play out. This extra plugin has been a nightmare.

So, if I deactive the extra plugin, will the redirect settings kick in and get rid of this problem once and for all? AND will the attachment sitemaps go away? If I have to manually intervene in these files, that’s fine, but tell me what do to end this nightmare with your plugin, short of getting rid of Yoast completely.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by soupaddict.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by soupaddict.

Just wanted to confirm Julie Be’s observation: I updated the plugin tonight, and the alignment is now a little cattywampus (and bummer about the twitter button, although not the fault of the plugin).

The label “Share This” is centered, but the buttons are now on a new line, left-aligned, whereas the whole thing used to be on one line, centered, and visually slick:

Example of new positioning

Changing just the css, btw, changes only the alignment of the label – e.g., if you change it to right aligned, “Share This” moves to the right margin – but not the buttons, which remain left-aligned on a separate line.

Same thing happening here as some – I’m up-to-date on WP, plugins and themes – contact form saves messages in Feedback, but does not email it. I’ve deactivated, reactivated, added new form, done the hokey-pokey and turned myself around – no dice. Too bad, too – I just wanted a super simple contact form exactly like this. Maybe I’ll try deactivating all my other plugins and see if there’s a conflict.

Yes, all is well with the new update. Thanks so much!

I’m having the same issue as herbudaman. I wonder if it isn’t a google thing: not only is the ReCaptcha unpassable, it’s serving up words with accented characters….