StevenW123

Hi Ajay,

Thanks for looking at this.

The plugin is used in two places on this page – the sidebar widget displays it properly, but at the bottom of the page, the shortcode uses the wrong font. I don’t know why. I hope you know how to fix it, please.

The website is https://seriesbooksinorder.com/

Thanks,

Steve

Hi Ajay,

I did try that, yes, but it didn’t work. However, once you stated that was the correct shortcode, I went back and tried it again. It took a few attempts, but finally I got it to work. Don’t know what the problem was that caused the delay. Maybe a caching issue. Thanks for confirming the shortcode.

Unfortunately, using the shortcode has now changed the font so it doesn’t match the rest of the page or the sidebar where the widget is still working and using the correct font. How can I correct that, please?

Thanks, Ajay!

Steve

Hi Nazir,

Thanks for your reply.

My hosting isn’t the lowest quality available, but it’s not super high, either. I was figuring 15 per second might be high, but if you say that’s an ordinary amount, I’ll go with it.

Thanks again.

Thank you for expanding.

Thank you for letting me know. I wasn’t aware of that update. (Maybe with someone so important, there could be an alert inside the WP dashboard.)

Hi,

Thanks but no, that isn’t what I’m talking about.

If someone makes a typo when typing their email address, the other software I’ve used will see the email was not delivered, so stop sending emails to that address. Your software will not do that. If someone makes a typo with your software, I get a message saying the email address does not exist and then have to manually remove it from my database. Your software should be able to stop sending to that address automatically, because it can’t be so difficult if other software can do that.

I am NOT paying a service to check every single email address when only around 1% are causing a problem.

Will you please fix this problem?

Regards,

Steve

That did it. Thank you.

But as the whole point of this is to collect email addresses, can’t that field’s default be “email” so it’s one less thing you have to set.

Your plugin seems good, but it also seems quite fiddly. For example, having to do three separate integrations if you want a subscriber to join three lists – why not just have a check box of lists for each integration to cut down on the work? One integration, three checks, three lists. Simple.

Thanks.

Thanks. I’ll check out the updated doc.

Sorry, I should have specified – I want to create a subscription form which automatically adds a subscriber to more than one list but I can’t find a way to do that. Is that possible, please?

Subscribers can be on more than one list to receive dedicated messages/autoresponders just for that list, can’t they?

Thanks. That’s what I figured, but wanted confirmation.

Thanks, Paul.
If It happens again and I have to reinstall, how can I retain all the settings (especially the IP white list and hidden login URL details, etc.), please, so I don’t have to go through and manually add everything.
This time, I managed to restore a backup of the full site, but I can’t do that often or I’ll lose data.
Thanks,
Steve

Carl,

“users being able to find the site in Google would be the cause of the traffic going back up, not the use of the plugin.”

Yes, but they’d only find the site in Google because Google believed the site was functioning properly and so displayed it in search results. Yoast is NOT letting that happen if it is responsible for the robot.txt file being changed. And who else could change it???

The only way I know to access the robot.txt file is through yoast. And the only reason I know that is because I investigated it when I discovered this problem.

Why would I or someone at my hosting company go into that file and add a slash? They wouldn’t. No one has manually added anything to that file.

And as I said, I don’t use any other SEO plugin, so the proof will be in the pudding – I’ve changed to Rank Math. If Google can now crawl my site properly, then yoast is to blame.

Steve

Hi Priscilla,
Thanks for getting back to me about this.
Only I have access to my sites and I did NOT go into the robot.txt file and change it.
The file had a slash added (which I did NOT add!), telling search engines not to index the site – the ENTIRE site, not just admin pages. ALL my live pages are being ignored, which make up the majority of those 92 pages that are affected.

Even though that file has now been corrected and my host says the robot.txt should be fine, Google is still not indexing it, hence the error message.

For SEO, I am using Yoast. That’s it. The only other plugin I use that interacts outside my site is Slimstat for analytics. Everything was working perfectly up to two weeks ago, then traffic started to fall off from 600 per day to under 100 now.

To try to isolate the problem to Yoast (as it must have been yoast that changed the robot.txt), I have temporarily deactivated it and installed Rank Math. Now, if my traffic goes back up, that proves Yoast is the problem. (I only ever use one SEO plugin at a time, so duplication is not the issue.)

Here is a page:
https://seriesbooksinorder.com/tom-clancy-books-in-order-jack-ryan-series-in-order/

Thanks again for looking at this,
Steve

Hi Nithin,
Thanks for the info.

Pretty Link is the plugin Forminator caused problems for.

I never mess with code if I can help it. Can’t you just update the plugin because I can’t be the only one having this issue? (Just because I’m the only one to report it doesn’t mean some people haven’t tested the plugin, suffered the error, so deleted it without a second thought.)

Steve