thedevplayer

Thanks, both, for the help.

I did try some of the isolation efforts presented by Faisal, but they haven’t worked thus far. Keep in mind that everything is working on other browsers, so it seems unlikely this is an issue with the WordPress install, plugins, etc and more about how the embed code is being rendered by Safari.

Currently looking at the Appletoolbox advice shared by t-p; thus far, I’m seeing some progress after re-emptying the cache. However, I’ve done this before to no avail – so will keep my eyes open to make sure the issue doesn’t recur.

Must be an ad block issue with that image hosting site, since I’ve just tested and everything is loading fine. Also a little confused why screenshots are even necessary as it’s abundantly clear that the text of the article is duplicated on the AMP page. But here’s the screenshots hosted on my own site so I know they work.

Original Article (text appears only once, leads into embed): https://headlineplanet.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-24-at-2.37.24-PM.png

AMP Article (first time text appears with a block quote, not the embed): https://headlineplanet.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-24-at-2.35.56-PM.png

AMP Article (scroll down, text appears for a second time, now with the embed working correctly): https://headlineplanet.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-24-at-2.36.03-PM.png

If you look at these screenshots, you’ll see that the article is essentially duplicated on the AMP version.

It first shows the text and then some sort of blockquote with a formatting error. Then, it repeats all the text but leads into the correct embed.

By comparison, the non-AMP version of the site just features the content and embed once. As it should.

https://postimg.cc/WD00MNsy

https://postimg.cc/MMxV5CTp

https://postimg.cc/75FgGGr7

Sorry, this is not fully resolved.

While the newest update does correctly embed the TikTok video – and does pass teh AMP validation test – it is still duplicating the text for some reason.

See the link I shared earlier.

Just to clarify, the user was originally just syndicating links to my site. I loved that – the traffic boost was welcome. The user is now actually scraping the whole articles. There is a “view original article” in tiny print at the bottom, but it’s completely worthless from a referral standpoint (I’m not even sure there’s an SEO benefit since that link only shows up within the TopBuzz app). And it’s unacceptable for them to be monetizing my content without permission.

I honestly cannot figure out how to do this kind of content syncing in TopBuzz, which makes me think that this person somehow convinced them he was a legitimate representative of my site and received heightened syndication privileges.

But, the point being, I want to see if there’s anything I could edit in WordPress that would make it impossible for them to scrape more than just the excerpt.

I actually deleted and re-created my domain.com -> domain.com/wpredirect after activating htaccess in Really Simple SSL, as I was getting a redirect loop otherwise. So that isn’t the issue.

Regarding the code you recommended – a bit confused. Would I put that in htaccess manually?

This appears to have worked, thanks.

That won’t cause a conflict with the changes that have already been made?