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It’s a month later, and we’re still seeing these errors. Woot.

Pretty sure I didn’t link any text or images in my review.

I am not promoting anything. You should be sure of your facts before you accuse people of things. I have no connection to Duplicate post plugin or the author beyond being a satisfied user.

Good job on the moderation! WordPress is lucky to have you.

Thanks!

Thanks @leopard-lady I ended up putting this whole mess on hold for a while. The site I’m working on has has messed up 404s for over a year now, another week or two isn’t going to hurt.

I tried using your solution but had some other major issue with the 404page plugin. From memory the compatibility mode didn’t work with some versions of PHP? I can’t remember exactly. Anyway, it didn’t work.

Thanks for suggesting Bing Webmaster tools. I’ll have a look. The site in question has thousands of pages so I need some kind of automation.

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Great to hear that Joel, thanks!

The main issue is that search engines, esp. Bing, see the 200 code and consider the broken/expired URL to be a valid link. So if you unpublish a page it never gets removed from Bing’s index.

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Thanks for this Leopard Lady.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I discovered this 404-301 plugin is sending a 200 response. The whole plugin is pointless if it’s going to do that.

Looking back through the support threads the author is aware of this but apparently hasn’t done anything about it yet: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-keep-404-status/

Fixed with a CSS rule. See this thread.

I’m also seeing this issue, thanks @jepperask for the fix idea.

Edit: can confirm this CSS fix works. Note that in v1.6.9 of the plugin the file cli-style.css that @jepperask refers to is now called cookie-law-info-public.css, but it’s better to just override this rule in your theme.

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Ok, thanks for confirming! I’ve tracked it down, it was AddThis sharing toolbar.

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Ahh, I may have spoken slightly too soon. The Javascript does work, but is there anyway to make it grab the contents of the twitter:title or twitter:description tags? Thanks!

Hi Kristin,

Yes! That’s exactly what I was looking for. Tested, and it’s working. Many thanks!

Tim

Hi again Kristin, maybe this will clarify things for you:

https://twitter.com/thoughton/status/1042041341805518848

As you can see the ‘Yoast FB Title’ is NOT part of the twitter card. This is what we are talking about. No one is talking about the twitter card except you.

Hello Kristin,

So you are saying that this is a Twitter bug, and not an AddThis bug? You are saying that Twitter is scanning the page source code, and grabbing the og:description (instead of twitter:description!!!!!!). Forgive me, but this sounds extremely unlikely.

Please stop giving me the Twitter Card troubleshooting link. As already explained twice above the bug I am referring to does NOT involve the Twitter Card in any way.

The Twitter Card works. Please stop bringing it up. I am not in any way talking about the Twitter Card.

I am starting to wonder if you are misunderstanding my issue. Is it possible to escalate this?

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Hi Kristin,

Unfortunately what you’re saying doesn’t match my experience.

If I go to https://testing.thoughton.co.uk/_wp/yoast-addthis-test/ and click the AddThis twitter icon it pops up a small window which contains the words “Yoast FB title”. If I then click the tweet button it tweets out “Yoast FB title”.

Here is a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/0IE9ADQ

I have tested in Safari, Chrome, Firefox. Same results in all of them.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi Kristin, thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be working for me.

If I go to my test page https://testing.thoughton.co.uk/_wp/yoast-addthis-test/ and click the blue twitter icon in the AddThis toolbar, I get a popup window entitled “Share a link with your followers”. In the text box of this window it says “Yoast FB title https://testing.thoughton.co.uk/_wp/yoast-addthis-test/#.W5oxWPBdqEI.twitter”

If I click tweet this is what is tweeted. On my twitter timeline I see my own tweet about “Yoast FB title”. “Yoast FB title” is the og:title, not the twitter:title. I was expecting the tweet to be populated with “Yoast twitter title”, which is the twitter:title of this page.

Please can you try it for yourself and see what is actually tweeted.

Thanks!

Edit: Please keep in mind I’m not talking about the twitter card. I’m talking about what goes in the actual tweet when a user clicks the blue twitter icon.

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