Viktor Nagornyy

@tobifjellner thanks!

@jdembowski thanks for the heads up. When I joined back in 2010, the guidelines didn’t have a section on “sockpuppets”. That was probably the first and last time I ever looked at them. You can see what it was in 2010:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100626045918/https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome

So here are two issues that I see, which should be considered suggestions:

1. When a user registers for www.ads-software.com profile, they are not asked to agree to any terms of service or guidelines. So the user won’t know there are rules they need to follow or where to find them. And legally, you can’t enforce a contract user did not agree to. There were cases about Terms of Service in the footer, those can’t be enforced unless user explicitly agreed to them. There should be a checkbox that a user must check when they register to agree to the guidelines.

2. Terms of Service (aka guidelines) constantly change. How do you expect a user to abide by the rules that recently changed if they didn’t know about the change? There should be a modal notification when the user logs in to notify them of changes to the terms/guidelines.

I don’t have any questions about the account and understand the revised guidelines. This is simply to bring up a bigger issue with guidelines and changes to them.

Thanks.

Just FYI, in our case, it was the object cache that kept showing that notice. I had to disable object cache, run the update, and then enable object cache and clear it. That’s the only thing that made that notice disappear.

It looks like after the most recent update (3.0.6) it’s working now, no draft status being added. If the issue comes back, I’ll reach out.

No, not using WP Reviews plugin. I updated to the latest version, and the issue still continues. Here’s a list of plugins on this site:

Accelerated Mobile Pages	Version 0.9.97.65 by Ahmed Kaludi, Mohammed Kaludi
Astra Premium Sites	Version 1.3.17 by Brainstorm Force
Astra Pro	Version 1.8.7 by Brainstorm Force
Astra Widgets	Version 1.1.1 by Brainstorm Force
Beaver Builder Plugin (Pro Version)	Version 2.2.4 by The Beaver Builder Team
Classic Editor	Version 1.5 by WordPress Contributors
Convert Pro	Version 1.3.7 by Brainstorm Force
Convert Pro - Addon	Version 1.2.0 by Brainstorm Force
Custom Post Type UI	Version 1.6.2 by WebDevStudios
Disable Comments	Version 1.9.0 by Samir Shah
Pretty Links Developer Edition	Version 3.0.3 by Blair Williams
Safe SVG	Version 1.9.4 by Daryll Doyle
SEOPress	Version 3.6 by Benjamin Denis
SEOPress PRO	Version 3.6.1 by Benjamin Denis
Shared Counts	Version 1.3.0 by Bill Erickson & Jared Atchison
Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder	Version 1.19.0 by Brainstorm Force

Sorry, should’ve clarified. The draft status changed to published. It seems that any new links I create are drafts. If I don’t go back to edit page and click publish, the link will remain as draft. But once I click publish, it takes about 3-5 min to become published.

I don’t know how or why, but draft status disappeared after about 10 minutes. I went in to add more links, and it was gone. FYI.

Glad we could help.

There’s a new version available (1.2.3) now, it fixes PHP 7 compatibility issue. Please let me know if you have any issues. It might take a few hours for an upgrade notification to show up in your WordPress.

Thanks for letting us know. I’ll check it out and get it fixed.

I’ll check with them. Is there a way to bypass/whitelist/disable this feature in Shield right now?

Try using “Repair” function inside phpMyAdmin, that might help repair the table. Here’s a tutorial on how to do it.

That would need to go inside “wp-admin” folder, so it only applies to that folder.

You can try something like this inside your main .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)?wp-login\.php(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)?wp-admin$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^111\.111\.111\.111$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=403,L]
</IfModule>

This will block access to wp-admin and wp-login unless IP matches.

Share your feed URL so we can take a look.

What plugins do you use?

It’s possible for plugins (PHP scripts) to overwhelm your MySQL server, but it’s also possible that a misconfigured MySQL server might not be able to handle WP.

Did you get this fixed? I checked Facebook Debugger and I do see image in the preview.

Also, it appears your website has a 302 redirect? It will cause SEO issues, 302 redirect is a temporary redirect. I would get this fixed.