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I figured out the problem and it had to do with my wp-config file.
I had these settings:require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 86400);
I had slowed down the autosave to 1 day, which was my way of very much disabling it. I read somewhere that the autosave setting needed to be above the ABSPATH setting. I reversed the order of those two and everything seems to be working again.
I must admit though, I haven't touched wp-config in over 3 years and everything worked fine up until a couple of months ago.Well it's all fixed now 🙂
bionaryMember@mstarks01, As a matter of fact, LearnDash is the platform I went with. The Sensei/woo commerce website is so bloated and confusing and everywhere else i looked for information on sensei I got jaded, non-helpful information from affiliate marketers.
I fired off a few questions to LearnDash and the owner got back to me promptly and actually answered my many questions thoroughly. I've been using learnDash for about 3 weeks now and am super impressed. I love it.
bionaryMemberCool Thanks Victor, that certainly did fix it!
I wondering why we weren't alerted to this by the Genesis team. I received no email and there was no "up grade now" request in my wp-admin dashboard.
I have no idea how long my site was broken...just discovered it now.bionaryMemberSo woocommerce is a plugin? Strange, they don't list it under their navigation that reads "plugins" And not only that I can't find the price of woocommerce. They're too busy trying to capture my email. If you have experience with woocommerce maybe you can answer my questions because their website certainly isn't winning any awards for effective communication.
How much is woocommerce?
Can I use woocommerce to sell online courses?It sounds like I need three separate plugins: sensei to build courses, woocommerce to collect money and manage the selling process and yet another plugin to manage members (i ithink). I don't want members as in a membership site. I want to sell a course and once paid a person can login and view the course materials.
bionaryMemberThis going to sound naive but I don't understand what precisely woocommerce is. I've spent a long time reading through their website yesterday only to be confused further. I guess if somebody uses them or whatever they are it's a no-brainer but to an outsider with no e-commerce experience woocommerce doesn't do a good job defining their role in the commerce world.
Their website goes on and on about how great they are and how many people use them but are they a theme or a plugin? Their site is littered with both. Can I use my genesis theme if I use woocommerce? If so what's the point of using woocommerce? Can't I just find a stripe plugin and accept payments that way? You see? I'm really confused as to what woocommerce is (even though they come recommended by tons of people) Not to mention every example on their website shows a storefront selling physical goods (even their sensei example)
uhg - still frustrated.
bionaryMemberwow, $49/mo and limits on users! That's even more expensive than lead pages. -no thanks!
bionaryMemberno, I'm a bozo. your code was working....I just didn't see the 'watch video' only because it wasn't a link...it was simply appended to the end of the text. Here's my final working code:
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' ); function beautiful_read_more() { if(is_category('videos')){ return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Watch Video', 'beautiful' ) . '</a>'; }else{ return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Continue Reading', 'beautiful' ) . '</a>'; } }
Thanks, as i couldn't have done this without your speed help!
bionaryMemberdid so, with three variants: "videos" "Videos", 18 ... video page comes back with no links
bionaryMembernope, actually digging into the function.php file I see I already have:
//* Modify the WordPress read more link
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );
function beautiful_read_more() {
return '' . __( 'Continue Reading', 'beautiful' ) . '';
}//* Modify the content limit read more link add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'beautiful_more' ); function beautiful_more() { add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' ); } add_action( 'genesis_after_loop', 'beautiful_remove_more' ); function beautiful_remove_more() { remove_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' ); }
so i think there's a conflict occurring
bionaryMemberThank you for your efforts but it did not work.
I tried both:
if( ! is_category( 'Videos' ) )
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if( ! is_category( 'videos' ) )
thinking maybe there could be a difference as one is the category title and the other is the slug...but neither one worked I'm afraid.
bionaryMemberI read that discussion several times and just can't believe it. How could coding work in such a sloppy way? When text is interpreted shouldn't special chars be escaped? Yes, I verified the canonical tag but analytics are all fragmented. This is just plain stupid.
bionaryMemberThanks!
bionaryMembercool, I'll just wait it out.
Thank you.(that is a very destructive bug on my site...as I had changed many slugs early on)
bionaryMemberwow, impressive Chris. Do the say when that will be released?
bionaryMemberI just tried resaving each url and that doesn't work. The removing filter seems like the nuclear option as it will destroy all the good effects of this "feature" and will probably break many links.
bionaryMemberI just figured out EXACTLY what wordpress is doing but I'm not sure how to fix it.
WordPress is automatically redirecting all urls (slugs) that where changed.
For example if I had a post called: site.com/abc and later changed it to site.com/123 visiting site.com/abc will automatically redirect (301) to the new url: site.com/123.The problem is wp is not smart enough to realize when another post is made using the old slug and NOT do the redirect.
My url: helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone-video used to be named: helloartsy.com/how-to-draw-a-cone
How on earth do I fix this?
bionaryMemberThat's a good tool, thanks Victor.
Here's where things get really weird which leads me to believe this is happening inside WP and not .htaccess.
If I change the url of the final destination (ie: helloartsy.com/abc) ... it still gets redirected there.
This is very weird.bionaryMemberokay, (more of a brain fart and much less a stroke of genius) but I solved this problem.
when I uploaded the wp files using filezilla from local to remote server, there was in fact some problems. under the "failed transfers" tab there were a few files that did not ftp properly. ... most notably "meta-boxes.php"screen shot: http://i.imgur.com/0CDj9bi.png
once I re-sent this file everything worked just fine.
bionaryMember@MoodyRiviera, yes I did play around with that but unfortunately it does not solve this awful problem.
June 14, 2015 at 11:17 am in reply to: Affiliate Links, Penalties, and hiding links from Google #156178bionaryMemberIs there a distinguishable SEO benefit to using the genesis Simple URL plugin over my current pretty link plugin because as of now I'm already doing everything else you suggested and watching my traffic drop back to the -80% level?
- no-follow links
- no index page
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