#wordpress 2019-02-21

2019-02-21 UTC
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dougbeal I'm getting wierd google bot crawl results to ?s or /search/.../rss. They are series of characters. They don't actualy show up in my search console. Is this some sort of attempt to game google?
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dougbeal I'm thinking of keeping the bot away with robots.txt
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[dougbeal] TIL WordPress uses a virtual robots.txt by default
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petermolnar good morning, everyone; I'm back in the WordPress world, with a community site... and I need help. Due to multiple managing people, for now, my best option is to do PESOS for and instagram, a facebook page, and a twitter account, but gosh, in the 2 years I was away from WP everything got messed up.
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[xavierroy] welcome [petermolnar_]
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petermolnar currently my main wth is IFTTT: it comes back saying this url is not a wordpress, whereas zapier is happy. All I see in my logs is 405 for POST from ifttt
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petermolnar anyone had this problem before?
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[xavierroy] Does the WP site show up in the iFTTT conncected services
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petermolnar that is what I'm trying to achieve
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petermolnar oh, you idiots, I think I know the problem. Coffee finally kicked in; the http version serves the php as is, as text file, because it does find the file, instead of redirecting it
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petermolnar nope.
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jeremycherfas Is it WP.com or .org?
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petermolnar it's a self hosted thing at a subdomain, server only over https; https://blog.pakuauk.com/
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petermolnar heavily under construction
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jeremycherfas Then I don't know
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Zegnat 405 normally means a URL is being accessed that doesn’t allow the specific (POST in your case) method
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Zegnat What is IFTTT trying to POST to? :/
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jgmac1106 petermolnar stuck doing a similar migration with https://literacyeverday.org
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jgmac1106 the site is basically three different WordPress sites????
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jgmac1106 have two done https://lcgnh.jgregorymcerry.com
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jgmac1106 https://lcgnh.jgregorymcverry.com/
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Loqi home
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jgmac1106 finished recording all their tutorials..and then Gutenberg dropped…need to go record everything (before Wednesday)
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GWG Gutenberg is a problem for many.
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GWG It's hard to figure out how to deal with it
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[tonz] I’ve disable Gutenberg and use the classic editor
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GWG Same, but not a long term solution
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[tonz] indeed
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jgmac1106 yeah..and customers are starung to call it the old editor and asking about the newer one…they don’t care about the plumbing….it seems way easier to understand than what they had
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jgmac1106 really isn’t a customer…I sit on the Board of Directors…and when they said we need to hire someone…some idiot spoke up and said, “don’t pay anyone I will do it"
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jgmac1106 …….now knows to never say before looking deeply into a WordPress isntall
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petermolnar if you have time and doing pages, gutenberg if fine. It's severily restricting, and terrible for posts.
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petermolnar but
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petermolnar I've tested a good couple of other page builders recently
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petermolnar and compared to those, it's not that terrible
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[jgmac1106] Yeah I use Elementor
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[grantcodes] petermolnar: what makes it so bad for posts? Just curious
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petermolnar it's slow, incredibly slow.
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petermolnar ok, clarification: for writing
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petermolnar long forms
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sknebel I saw a github thread where people were using some long post from a blog as a test case, with it taking minutes to load
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petermolnar but it's slowly getting better
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petermolnar slooooooowly
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sknebel https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11782 - clearly progress, but...
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Loqi [SchneiderSam] #11782 Performance: Improve the initial loading time and the feeling fo smoothness while typing in blocks.
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petermolnar most pagebuilders are similarly crappy and slow, but they are for building eyecandy pages; gutenberg is neither a good page builder yet (it has the potential though, but lack blocks and customization options, eg. multiple custom typography within the same paragraph block) nor a decent text editor
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petermolnar feels like it got the problems of both worlds, but not really their benefits :D
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petermolnar (still lightyears faster, than wix though, that thing is a nightmare)
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[grantcodes] Ahh cool, I have never had anything particularly long form in there, so haven't noticed that too much myself
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