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Set up: In my Primary Widget Area I have 'Categories' set to 'drop down' and I have a 'Custom Menu' linking to the Home page.
Unclickable 'Categories' and 'Home Page' link
Set up: In my Primary Widget Area I have 'Categories' set to 'drop down' and I have a 'Custom Menu' linking to the Home page.
I am just hanging in there Caden, reading and learning a bit at a time. Will make a serious effort at a website soon. I think I have the confidence at this stage.
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XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.3
When I clicked on 'rebuild the sitemap' I got this message: 'There was a problem while notifying Bing.'
Does anyone know ho
The problem is related to the server your site is hosted on here at WA.
WA hosting has started to block all outbound requests that plugins make, they will allow selected plugins outbound requests once they look into the plugin to make sure it's not going to cause problem.
This is currently only being tested on selected servers at the moment.
So right now outbound requests to BING must be blocked, the only way to fix this error is contact support and ask them to look into this.
We've had a lot of issues across servers with wordpress plugins that try to connect to remote servers. Essentially, what happens is that a remote service may go offline (ie. a service that verifies someone paid for a plugin), and then their website goes down. Or worse, requests to their site hang and create a connection backlog on the web server, causing the entire server to go down. In addition, people who have installed insecure plugins on their sites get their site hacked into, and the intruder injects code that makes connections to remote servers (again this can bring the entire server down if the remote connections hang). For these reason, we are implementing a policy to block all outgoing connections, except for those that have been preapproved. For dropbox and wordpress we are comfortable with approving, because they run very reliable services. We are working to have exceptions to all wordpress servers in our firewall. We will add dropbox. For plugins that require an activation, we need to be reassured that this is a one-time activation and that this activation code is not checked every time the wordpress site is loaded. Since we host so many plugins, if we allow them to connect remotely, there is a high chance that one of those plugins will have a service outage at any given time, and this potentially means outages for people's sites. We cannot have our own hosting service dependent on the performance of 3rd party services unless we have a high confidence in the availability of those 3rd party services.
The reason this is affecting some sites and not others is because this measure has not been rolled out to all servers yet. We are testing on only a couple servers first and refining our firewall measures before rolling out to all servers.
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Any idea what this means and how to correct it? Thanks
XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.3
When I clicked on 'rebuild the sitemap' I got this message: 'There was a problem while notifying Bing.'
Does anyone know ho
The problem is related to the server your site is hosted on here at WA.
WA hosting has started to block all outbound requests that plugins make, they will allow selected plugins outbound requests once they look into the plugin to make sure it's not going to cause problem.
This is currently only being tested on selected servers at the moment.
So right now outbound requests to BING must be blocked, the only way to fix this error is contact support and ask them to look into this.
We've had a lot of issues across servers with wordpress plugins that try to connect to remote servers. Essentially, what happens is that a remote service may go offline (ie. a service that verifies someone paid for a plugin), and then their website goes down. Or worse, requests to their site hang and create a connection backlog on the web server, causing the entire server to go down. In addition, people who have installed insecure plugins on their sites get their site hacked into, and the intruder injects code that makes connections to remote servers (again this can bring the entire server down if the remote connections hang). For these reason, we are implementing a policy to block all outgoing connections, except for those that have been preapproved. For dropbox and wordpress we are comfortable with approving, because they run very reliable services. We are working to have exceptions to all wordpress servers in our firewall. We will add dropbox. For plugins that require an activation, we need to be reassured that this is a one-time activation and that this activation code is not checked every time the wordpress site is loaded. Since we host so many plugins, if we allow them to connect remotely, there is a high chance that one of those plugins will have a service outage at any given time, and this potentially means outages for people's sites. We cannot have our own hosting service dependent on the performance of 3rd party services unless we have a high confidence in the availability of those 3rd party services.
The reason this is affecting some sites and not others is because this measure has not been rolled out to all servers yet. We are testing on only a couple servers first and refining our firewall measures before rolling out to all servers.
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Does anyone know of any good squeeze page plugins? Thanks
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Does anyone know of any good squeeze page plugins? Thanks
Does anyone know of any good squeeze page plugins? Thanks
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Hope you got an answer to this Caden. Where are the experts, or have they abandoned you.
It looks that way Con :)
So how are you doing? Cheers, Caden
I am just hanging in there Caden, reading and learning a bit at a time. Will make a serious effort at a website soon. I think I have the confidence at this stage.
PM me when you're ready for some comments on your site:) All the best Con. Cheers, Caden
I will do Caden. Thanks.