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Thanks for the quick reply, Frank.
I love your plugin for its simplicity and effectiveness.

We got the Disable XML-RPC plugin and Protect from Jetpack. Shouldn’t that protect the site?

Hey Mihai,
We’ve solved the error by adding this in the .htaccess file along with a disable xml-rpc plugin.

<FilesMatch "xmlrpc\.php$">
Satisfy Any
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

Credit to https://edbinx.com/2015/08/02/solve-jetpack-site-inaccessible-403-error-xmlrpc-php-wordpress/ for the solution.

@randy yes, we bumped up the wp_memory_limit, it is at 1024MB now and yes we have tried deactivating all plugins and switching to the 2015 theme.

@catacustic Good idea. I will evaluate if we need all those to be in Pages or Posts. I recreate the site locally and see if the problem persists.

— Edit —

By the way, does custom post type have the same performance bottleneck as Pages?

We installed another disable xml-rpc plugin and still doesn’t work. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/

We tried allocating more memory but I don’t think its going to work.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 838860800 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in /home/owlguru/public_html/schools/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1778
Bumped from 256 mb to 800 mb (over 3x increase)

Then bumped from 800 mb to 1 gb
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1073741824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /home/owlguru/public_html/schools/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1778

We even upgraded our server from a 2.5 gb VPS to a 4.5 gb and still the problem persisted.

— Update —
We installed both wpbruiser and disable xml-rpc pingback and still got the same error (xml_rpc-32700).

When we go to the url: https://www.owlguru.com/schools/xmlrpc.php it redirects us back to the homepage of our main site (www.owlguru.com). Is this normal?

Note: https://www.owlguru.com/schools is on a different wp installation than https://www.owlguru.com
Note #2: The site having problem is https://www.owlguru.com/schools

Thanks Tobias for the super fast reply.

@jeremy @mihche
Won’t disabling XML-RPC makes use vulnerable to attacks?
Is there any other way besides disabling XML-RPC?

— Update from host #2 —
Here’s what my host said.

You might be able to resolve the issue with changes to another .htaccess file, but I already confirmed that this file is causing the issue by temporarily removing it. When it was removed, xmlrpc.php was accessible.

— Update from host —
Here’s what my host said.

I suggested two solutions. The .htacess file can be removed, but this will allow access to the WordPress XML-RPC API, which is prone to abuse.

The alternative would be to whitelist the XML-RPC client in the .htaccess file.

We whitelisted my IP and doesn’t work. I’m hesitant on the 1st suggestion to remove the .htaccess file.

Is there any other way?

I totally understand about what is breadcrumbs and their benefits.

The question is,
How do you structure the site?

In the WooCommerce example you gave, their breadcrumbs is:
PARTS > PINBALL PARTS > BULBS > COMET TWIN 2835 SMD – WHITES

How did they achieve that? How did they structure their site to achieve that?

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear enough.
I actually meant structure in terms of categories, tags, url not code structure.

For example:
Home > Cars > Used > Toyota

How would you structure your site to achieve this breadcrumb look?
Do you put Cars as a category?
Used as the child category?
Toyota as a tag?

OR

Maybe you can structure your URL like https://www.cars.com/used/toyota? Will Google recognize and output the breadcrumbs to be like Home > Cars > Used > Toyota

This is what I’m not 100% clear about.

P.s: We’re definitely going to use a plugin ??

Thanks for the reply.
I actually meant how to structure not what plugin to use for breadcrumbs.

How about allowing us to call the table via the table name instead of table id?