Questions tagged [wordpress]
WordPress is an open source content management system running on PHP and MySQL often used as a blog engine. There is a WordPress StackExchange at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/: if your question is related to WordPress but not webmastery, then your should ask it over there.
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Problem to detect security script like X-Frame through .htaccess file in WordPress and how to trace and find the problem?
I transferred my WordPress website from a hosting company to a virtual machine. I want to add some security scripts like X-Frame, CSP, and HSTS. Before that, I edited the .htaccess file from the ...
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Why is my WordPress website not getting indexed on Google Search Console despite using Yoast SEO and manually creating a sitemap and robots.txt?
I have added my website in my Google Search Console but it's not getting indexed. It's a WordPress website and I'm using Yoast SEO but since it didn't work out. I had to create Sitemap manually and ...
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Is it possible to change website hosting away from Wix with a domain registered at GoDaddy? [closed]
I have a website for my Kitchen & bathroom Remodeling business. I want to change the hosting of my website due to poor performance of our current host (Wix). Our domain name is registered with ...
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403 header response code
I am getting a 403 header response code for my website while checking this tool https://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php
Here is the screenshot below: https://snipboard.io/p2DH1S.jpg
Here are the ....
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Multilingual Wordpress site restructuring, advice needed
My current situation:
A Wordpress blog in two languages: my native language + English.
Setup with Polylang as follows: ‘www.domain.fr’ and ‘www.domain.fr/en’.
The issue:
The complexity of ...
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migrate domain-name and hosting from google-sites to wordpress
I don't have website deveoplemnt experience.
For keeping my personal blogs, I took the easy plug-and-play step and I have created a website using sites.google.com. I bought the domain name and hosting ...
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Does changing from a .com website to .com.au hurt SEO?
Recently I made the change from a .com site that I have had for quite a few years and it has a lot of value. After completing my 301 redirects etc. to my .com.au site I have noticed a fairly ...
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Wordpress website only showing text 'Hello World' upon visiting
I've been trying to fix this issue for a long time, but whenever I go to my WORDPRESS website it just shows a plain 'Hello World' text despite me having downloaded themes and media for the website.
I'...
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Remove all redirects introduced by a WordPress hack [closed]
There is this online scam website that's causing great damage. From the many complaints online, it's obvious that people are losing thousands of dollars every month on the site.
I've decided to stop ...
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Is it possible to use a template for search spiders?
Is it possible to use a special template for search engines and another template for visitors? on the WordPress platform.
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301 Redirect Chain Caused By Custom Post Type [WORDPRESS]
We're using Pods to create custom post types. We needed to redirect an existing page to its new location under the custom post type, but now Ahrefs is detecting a redirect chain.
www.example.com/...
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How can I get Google to rank some pages on my website higher than other pages on the same site?
Every year I release new content on my Wordpress website that I would like Google to rank higher than the previous content on the site. Older content seems to rank higher right now, maybe because it ...
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Will correcting the timezone of a WordPress installation effect the search engine rankings of all the posts?
I am using WordPress CMS. I had started my blog 2 years ago. Right now I have 284 blog posts in my sitemap. When I started my blog, I made a mistake while selecting time zone. I live in India my time ...
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Could a change in our website's address potentially be affecting the queries people use to find it?
We moved our Wordpress website from a .co address to a .com a few months ago, and ever since we did that, the queries that were the most interesting for our business stopped making our site appear on ...
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What does the Yoast Cornerstone Content feature do?
In Yoast for WordPress I noticed an option for "cornerstone content" and I have switched it on. However in the HTML code generated of the designated page I do not see any difference.
What ...
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Does hiding image make loading faster?
Dose hiding the "featured" image on WordPress single post with display:none make the page load faster?
I understand the img tag is still loaded in the DOM, just wondering does it make any ...
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SEO Impact of moving blog posts from root to subdirectory /blog
In a current corporate WordPress site, I have all the pages (about us, services, etc...) in root, but also the blog posts. For example: domain.com/a-simple-service-page, but also domain.com/a-simple-...
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Edited my .htaccess file and now website is downloading, not displaying anymore
I made changes to my .htaccess file and now the website is not loading anymore. Instead, it just downloads a file called "download". This happens on Google Chrome, but on Safari the website ...
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Using dynamic content in Wordpress by decoding and using a JWT passed on the URL, without logging in any user
I have a Wordpress and I don't want to create users for the next functionality:
I need a page that has this behaviour:
URL1 = https://my-site.example.com/some-page/ => Renders some public content
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Change product images WooCommerce (jpeg > webp.) the right way?
I'm working on converting product images from .jpeg to webp, I want to do this without a plugin, but preferably within the functions of WooCommerce. I exported the products as a .csv file and adjusted ...
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how to secure httaccess and index.php files [duplicate]
I am responsible for a lot of WordPress websites and I secured the cPanel and server (WHM) and WordPress administrator with 2fa so no one will be able to reach them except me.
I downloaded the ...
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Updating the "WordPress published date"?
My site is the number 1 result in a search for "board game conventions" (see screenshot below). The only thing that concerns me is that the date shows as 2017, even though I update this ...
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Deceptive site ahead - WordPress Backend Edit Post/Page
Error Message (While Editing Page / Adding Page in WordPress using Google Chrome - Only happens for Chrome Users):
"Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on 24-tsb.net may trick you into doing something ...
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If I'm using a CDN should I host my images (the originals) at high resolution and no compression?
I'm about to start testing W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress with Cloudflare for CDN.
Is there any downside (other than file size/space on server) to hosting the original images that the CDN uses to ...
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I have All in one SEO plugin, how can I remove my sitemap.xml.gz?
My website currently facing 2 sitemaps, one is sitemap.xml and the other is sitemap.xml.gz.
I want to remove sitemap.xml.gz from my website. How can I do that with my "All in one SEO plugin"?...
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WordPress nginx proxy manager + apache: redirect loop
I've moved (manually, db backup + folder transfer) 4 wordpress websites from one host to another, maintaining the same configuration (nginx proxy manager in docker on 80/443 plus apache on 444/https). ...
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How can we redirect all pagination URL to main page
We want to redirect https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/page/2/ to https://www.example.com/blog/category/mobile-application/ or all blog category pagination to the main category ...
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Weird URLs in Google Search Console
Looking at our Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag in the Google Search console we have tens of thousands of these URLs that look like this.
/page/2/?s=Xổ+số+thể+thao+Xổ+số+kiến+thiết+bóng+đá+5+lần+bao+nhiêu+...
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How can I replace my site's domain name on search engines with its business name?
I'm building a site and I've noticed that when I search my site's name on Google, unlike other sites my website's URL is displayed instead of the business title.
Can somebody please help me figure ...
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301 Redirects & SEO
I'll keep it short and sweet.
My website features a gallery set up as posts that showcase products on vehicles.
Example 1: website.com/product-1-ford-f150/
Example 2: website.com/product-2-ford-f150/
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Should I enable cloudflare crawler hints with Yoast SEO?
I have a WordPress site, and I want to have more traffic. I already have Yoast SEO installed in WordPress. Should I also enable CloudFlare crawler hints, and can it cause security issues? I see the ...
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Using apex domain registered at WordPress
I have a domain registered at WordPress, let's say it's example.com.
I have my webpage hosted with GitHub pages and was able to add a CNAME record in the WordPress DNS settings pointing to said github....
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Stop any search engine from indexing/crawling images in a dedicated folder in wp
How can I prevent a dedicated image folder from crawling/indexing by any search bot? Like Google search or image or Bing search/image bot?
I would like to give that folder name as
/donotindex/ here ...
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How to get hCaptcha work with contact form 7 (WordPress)?
I don't manage to get hcaptcha to work with Wordpress contact form 7 forms:
I have created an account and site at hcaptcha, then installed the hcaptcha plug-in according to the guide at https://...
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Why do I have to enter basic authentication credentials twice for WordPress with .htaccess?
I protect the wp-login.php file via my .htaccess file:
<Files wp-login.php>
AuthName "Admin-Bereich"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /*path*/htdocs/.htpasswd
require valid-user
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CloudFlare-EC2-Wp Site goes down from time to time
Sometimes, my site goes down, and it comes back to work only after restarting the server, just as if nothing happened before.
When the site stops working, I get the CloudFlare Site Not Available Page:
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WordPress doesn't identify the subfolder
I have a subfolder with a separate WordPress running on it. When I click on a link which should lead to the destination in the new website (the subfolder) it reads everything except the mentioned ...
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How do I find if any website still links to one of my pages?
not to be confused, I'm not looking for backlinks check. I took over a site that has more than 10.000 redirects inside htaccess file.
Those redirects were made 2 years ago when the website platform ...
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200 website code by Console [closed]
Can someone help me and let me know why google is not ranking quite some few of my sites from mine latest SEO project:
https://kroatien-ferienwohnungen.at/
I see that plenty of pages are crawled but ...
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Wordpress login attempts with personalized data
I recently got some login attempts on a self-hosted Wordpress site that make me a little bit nervous: The login attempts are non-standard usernames like "admin" or "root". They ...
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Will Website Security tests (Security Penetration) hurt my WordPress page? [closed]
I have a WP page.
I did a security checkup through the usual website auditing tools. I'd like to use a tool specialized for Security checks.
Will it hurt my website somehow?
What would you recommend, ...
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How to Add ImageObject Schema on All Images Attached with Product?
I have multiple images in a single product in the post_content area. These are attached to the product but without using the gallery feature.
I want to add structured data to each image attached to ...
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How can I change the SEO of my domain name knowing that this domain name is a redirect?
Currently, I have a domain with an associated WordPress site example.fr, which is correctly indexed by Google.
But also, I have another domain name example.eu which redirects to the main one -> ...
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Google Adsense rejection for multiple accounts
I applied for Google Adsense when my website was under construction due to my low knowledge of Google Adsense. I got rejected and later realized why I was rejected, I fix everything and reapply but to ...
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Easiest and most affordable webhost to transfer and host the domain of an existing .php website to another existing domain name? [duplicate]
I've had a friend of mine create a .php website for me that he hosts on a personal raspberry pi server.
It looks fantastic and works great. However, I already have a website and domain that was hosted ...
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SSL DV certificate not working uniformly across browsers, ISP and OS
I purchased SSL certificate through Namecheap.
I am using Windows 11 OS, with BSNL Internet Service Operator(wifi) with Firefox v16, Microsoft Edge, Chrome v106 as browsers and iPad OS version 16 and ...
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Is it OK for SEO to remove old WordPress image uploads that are no longer being used on the site?
If I'm re-building a website that is not going to be using older image uploads, what's best practice in terms of SEO? Do I just delete the old uploads and move on or is it better to 301 them to the ...
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my website is working fine but the traffic keeps dropping and i can't find the reason [closed]
My website is being attacked by IP range 66.249.72
My website is experiencing a huge drop in traffic even though it's working properly. I found that the IP address of google bot accessing my website a ...
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How to decrease unwanted traffic after malware attack?
After malware attack on my website I'm seeing more than 20000 get requests every day which are pointing to non existent places on my server. Those addresses were valid during the attack and were ...
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Cloudflare WAF rule for blocking a path except from two countries instead block all traffic to the site
I want Cloudflare WAF to restrict admin section of WordPress site/wp-admin/ and allow access to WP admin section from only two countries India & UAE.
For some reason it block traffic from all ...
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