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Hi,

Thanks for looking into this further. I just haven’t had a chance to do this. Once I do it, I’ll let you know.

Regards

For deleting tables, I would either use phpMyAdmin or WP Optimize plugin (Database > Tables).

Thanks

Hello,

I just tried two versions, 2.1.5 and 2.1.3. No change, links still disappear after the page reload. For both versions I did the clean install.

Here is my WP info (server path removed so you see //):

wp-core

version: 6.6.2
site_language: en_US
user_language: en_US
timezone: America/Los_Angeles
permalink: /%postname%/
https_status: true
multisite: false
user_registration: 0
blog_public: 1
default_comment_status: open
environment_type: production
user_count: 2
dotorg_communication: true wp-paths-sizes

wordpress_path: /
wordpress_size: 250.97 MB (263159023 bytes)
uploads_path: //wp-content/uploads
uploads_size: 13.49 MB (14142070 bytes)
themes_path: //wp-content/themes
themes_size: 32.31 MB (33882449 bytes)
plugins_path: //wp-content/plugins
plugins_size: 139.71 MB (146492022 bytes)
fonts_path: //wp-content/uploads/fonts
fonts_size: directory not found
database_size: 20.22 MB (21200896 bytes)
total_size: 456.69 MB (478876460 bytes) wp-dropins (1)

advanced-cache.php: true wp-active-theme

name: Blocksy (blocksy)
version: 2.0.69
author: CreativeThemes
author_website: https://creativethemes.com
parent_theme: none
theme_features: core-block-patterns, widgets-block-editor, automatic-feed-links, responsive-embeds, html5, title-tag, custom-logo, lifterlms-sidebars, boostify-header-footer, rank-math-breadcrumbs, fl-theme-builder-headers, fl-theme-builder-footers, fl-theme-builder-parts, editor-styles, editor-style, editor-color-palette, editor-gradient-presets, post-thumbnails, menus, align-wide, customize-selective-refresh-widgets, header-footer-elementor, widgets
theme_path: //wp-content/themes/blocksy
auto_update: Disabled wp-themes-inactive (2)

Customizr: version: 4.4.22, author: nikeo, Auto-updates disabled
Twenty Twenty-Four: version: 1.2, author: the WordPress team, Auto-updates disabled wp-plugins-active (12)

Ad Inserter: version: 2.7.37, author: Igor Funa, Auto-updates disabled
Advanced Editor Tools: version: 5.9.2, author: Automattic, Auto-updates disabled
Affiliate Links Lite: version: 3.0, author: Custom4Web, Auto-updates disabled
Blocksy Companion: version: 2.0.69, author: CreativeThemes, Auto-updates disabled
Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator: version: 1.3.35, author: Philippe Bernard, Auto-updates disabled
MainWP Child: version: 5.2, author: MainWP, Auto-updates disabled
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore: version: 1.24.6, author: TeamUpdraft, DavidAnderson, Auto-updates disabled
Wordfence Security: version: 7.11.7, author: Wordfence, Auto-updates disabled
WP-Optimize - Clean, Compress, Cache: version: 3.6.0, author: David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft, Auto-updates disabled
WPCode Lite: version: 2.2.2, author: WPCode, Auto-updates disabled
WP Sitemap Page: version: 1.9.4, author: Tony Archambeau, Auto-updates disabled
Yoast SEO: version: 23.5, author: Team Yoast, Auto-updates disabled wp-plugins-inactive (2)

Simple Link Directory - Lite: version: 8.2.9, author: Link Directory, Auto-updates disabled
WPForms Lite: version: 1.9.1.3, author: WPForms, Auto-updates disabled wp-media

image_editor: WP_Image_Editor_Imagick
imagick_module_version: 1809
imagemagick_version: ImageMagick 7.1.1-14 Q16-HDRI x86_64 e284d8387:20230722 https://imagemagick.org
imagick_version: 3.7.0
file_uploads: 1
post_max_size: 50M
upload_max_filesize: 50M
max_effective_size: 50 MB
max_file_uploads: 25
imagick_limits:
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_AREA: 15 GB
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_DISK: 9.2233720368548E+18
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_FILE: 393216
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MAP: 8 GB
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MEMORY: 4 GB
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_THREAD: 1
imagick::RESOURCETYPE_TIME: 9.2233720368548E+18
imagemagick_file_formats: 3FR, 3G2, 3GP, A, AAI, AI, APNG, ART, ARW, ASHLAR, AVI, AVS, B, BAYER, BAYERA, BGR, BGRA, BGRO, BIE, BMP, BMP2, BMP3, BRF, C, CAL, CALS, CANVAS, CAPTION, CIN, CIP, CLIP, CMYK, CMYKA, CR2, CR3, CRW, CUBE, CUR, CUT, DATA, DCM, DCR, DCRAW, DCX, DDS, DFONT, DNG, DPX, DXT1, DXT5, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPS3, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EPT2, EPT3, ERF, EXR, FARBFELD, FAX, FF, FILE, FITS, FL32, FLV, FRACTAL, FTP, FTS, FTXT, G, G3, G4, GIF, GIF87, GRADIENT, GRAY, GRAYA, GROUP4, HALD, HDR, HEIC, HEIF, HISTOGRAM, HRZ, HTM, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, ICB, ICO, ICON, IIQ, INFO, INLINE, IPL, ISOBRL, ISOBRL6, J2C, J2K, JBG, JBIG, JNG, JNX, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPM, JPS, JPT, JSON, K, K25, KDC, LABEL, M, M2V, M4V, MAC, MAP, MASK, MAT, MATTE, MEF, MIFF, MKV, MNG, MONO, MOV, MP4, MPC, MPEG, MPG, MPO, MRW, MSL, MSVG, MTV, MVG, NEF, NRW, NULL, O, ORA, ORF, OTB, OTF, PAL, PALM, PAM, PANGO, PATTERN, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDB, PDF, PDFA, PEF, PES, PFA, PFB, PFM, PGM, PGX, PHM, PICON, PICT, PIX, PJPEG, PLASMA, PNG, PNG00, PNG24, PNG32, PNG48, PNG64, PNG8, PNM, POCKETMOD, PPM, PS, PS2, PS3, PSB, PSD, PTIF, PWP, QOI, R, RADIAL-GRADIENT, RAF, RAS, RAW, RGB, RGB565, RGBA, RGBO, RGF, RLA, RLE, RMF, RW2, SCR, SCREENSHOT, SCT, SFW, SGI, SHTML, SIX, SIXEL, SPARSE-COLOR, SR2, SRF, STEGANO, STRIMG, SUN, SVG, SVGZ, TEXT, TGA, THUMBNAIL, TIFF, TIFF64, TILE, TIM, TM2, TTC, TTF, TXT, UBRL, UBRL6, UIL, UYVY, VDA, VICAR, VID, VIFF, VIPS, VST, WBMP, WEBM, WEBP, WMV, WPG, X3F, XBM, XC, XCF, XPM, XPS, XV, Y, YAML, YCbCr, YCbCrA, YUV
gd_version: bundled (2.1.0 compatible)
gd_formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP
ghostscript_version: 9.50 wp-server

server_architecture: Linux 5.4.0-196-generic x86_64
httpd_software: Apache
php_version: 7.4.33 64bit
php_sapi: cgi-fcgi
max_input_variables: 1000
time_limit: 30
memory_limit: 256M
max_input_time: 60
upload_max_filesize: 50M
php_post_max_size: 50M
curl_version: 7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f
suhosin: false
imagick_availability: true
pretty_permalinks: true
htaccess_extra_rules: true
current: 2024-10-03T07:18:32+00:00
utc-time: Thursday, 03-Oct-24 07:18:32 UTC
server-time: 2024-10-03T00:18:31-07:00 wp-database

extension: mysqli
server_version: 8.0.39
client_version: mysqlnd 7.4.33
max_allowed_packet: 33554432
max_connections: 600 wp-constants

WP_HOME: undefined
WP_SITEURL: undefined
WP_CONTENT_DIR: //wp-content
WP_PLUGIN_DIR: //wp-content/plugins
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 40M
WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M
WP_DEBUG: false
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: true
WP_DEBUG_LOG: false
SCRIPT_DEBUG: false
WP_CACHE: true
CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_CSS: undefined
WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE: Undefined
WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE: undefined
DB_CHARSET: utf8mb4
DB_COLLATE: undefined wp-filesystem

wordpress: writable
wp-content: writable
uploads: writable
plugins: writable
themes: writable
fonts: not writable

Wanted to add something interesting. Out of curiosity, I installed Pretty Links again, and when I created the first link, the Links page showed nothing. I tried more than once, but the problem persisted. I create the link, and I get the notification above the link list “The link has been created” yet no links on the list, just empty.

I thought this could help as there could be a connection in how these two plugins work in the background. I tried some other link management plugins, and had no trouble like this.

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion. Just tried it, did fresh install of the plugin, but the issue persisted. I also tried switching the theme, did not help. Previously, I tried deactivating all plugins, no change.

Thanks very much for the info.

I did all as suggested, removed the plugin, ensured all the tables were removed as well.

I installed the plugin again, and added links manually. All looked good until I went away from the BetterLinks page. When I came back, no links were showing.

In addition, I checked my other WP site where I also use BetterLinks, it is also 6 tables showing, so the other 2 I reported missing do not seem to be relevant anyway.

I will try to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks for the reply.

I checked the tables, and found “rotatio” and “meta_tags” missing. I wonder why this did not get rebuilt when I reinstalled the plugin.

What do you suggest?

Thank you

Same here. Of 10 sites, 5 gets disconnected every time the sync goes on. plus, it shows updates for some sites, but cannot do them.

Sure it helps, thanks very much.

Thanks very much. It turned the problem was an incorrect link that was the part of one of the widgets. Once that got fixed, the incorrect results stopped showing.

Thanks

And here I am again, taking back the apology. I just switched to another theme, and the problem is back again. This time the theme is a maintained one, Blocksy, and all these /nggallery/ subpages are back, thousands of them.

??

Hello again,

Apology time!

Even though it is a live website, I took some courage and switched the theme.

No problem anymore.

I conclude that the problem WAS NOT about the NextGEN Gallery plugin, but the theme that is currently used for this particular website – Hueman.

This theme has some issues, and one of them is the creation of these dumb dummy non-existing links. It just happened that it manifested on the NextGEN Gallery, I don’t know why. I see no trouble with other links, but the /nggallery/ folder only for multi-page galleries.

Anyway, my apology again for jumping up and blaming the plugin. Not sure if you could actually test it, and maybe figure out the real reason, so this gets prevented.

The theme mentioned seems to be unsupported anymore (last reply was 9 months ago), even though the creators have active offers on their website. Not sure. All I want it to get away from it.

Cheers

Thanks very much for a prompt reply.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is not a plug in. It is a desktop software, a website crawler. Therefore, whatever this software finds, any other crawler will find, like Bing or Googlebot. I do use Yoast BTW.

The problem is that the NextGEN Gallery plugin is creating those non-existing links. I already installed another photo gallery plugin, and on pages where I used this one instead of NextGEN, there are no such problems.

Please note that I do not refer to regular NextGEN page URLs. That’s fine. From my initial post, you can see the plugin is creating infinite links that do not exist in reality.

A link like this:

mysite.com/post-name/nggallery/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/page/1

This is not ok, and it is a pure product of NextGEN plugin. To give you a good picture of this problem, if in the spider I exclude the /nggallery/ folder, I get around 1,500 hits (this includes HTML pages, images, css and javascript files, etc). If I let the spider include URLs with /nggallery/ in them, the count goes over 33,000 and still goes on. I looks like it will never end.

Why? I don’t know, and that is why I ask about it here, hoping to get some clue. The fast is that it happens only on pages with multi-page NextGEN galleries.

Thanks

Thank you. Makes sense. But it is puzzling for me why I get those zeros after first value was presented correctly. Using the same code in my static HTML pages works just fine. :/
Anyhow, thank you for clarification.

Thank you for checking on it and for your reply. It turned to be an add-on that affects many websites. It’s Free Download Manager.