IainPurdie
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That’s fine. Thank you again for your help and at least I know where to look now.
Thanks to all for your responses. One last query! Is there any way to change the metric I’m viewing so that I can see how many visitors the site has? Surely (as I mentioned) noting that someone has visited the site isn’t a breach of DMA if no uniquely identifiable information is stored (or perhaps it is in which case I’m stuffed)? Is there just a view that I’ve not found on Analytics which takes this into account?
If not then I’ll just have to estimate, I guess! Again, thank you for the responses and at least we seem to have pinpointed the issue.
Sorry, I meant to add to my last reply – is there any method of tracking based on geographical area within Analytics (ie ignoring DMA for those outside of the UK/EU)? Or of monitoring the fact that someone has visited (non-identifiable information) and nothing else so at least I know how many visitors I’ve had? I generally don’t care if they’re desktop, mobile, what their IP address is, etc – happy to let Google Ads figure that stuff out with its algorithms. Surely the fact that someone has arrived at a page isn’t something protected under DMA if Analytics doesn’t take in any further info?
EDIT – actually… if I read the instructions you linked to (thank you) am I right to assume that it is the UK/EU ones who are being blocked which would explain why I am counting _some_ traffic… which will be those who gave consent _and_ those from outside of the DMA area?
- This reply was modified 5 days, 16 hours ago by IainPurdie.
@jamesosborne Ah! You may very well have hit the nail on the head! Jetpack doesn’t care about consent mode, whereas Google certainly implied that it was pretty much a requirement due to my being located in the UK and with many EU readers (although 90% are US/UK so I would assume not relevant). It took ages to set up as well :-/
I guess this now becomes a legislation issue. Am I better switching off consent mode and tracking 90% of my visitors and risking the wrath of the EU (on a website with 400 visitors a day…). _sigh_
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Mastodon Autopost] Auto-post by default not workingIf I click the “Toot” box on an individual post, then it does go to Mastodon. So everything is working except that box being ticked by default (which it should be as I’ve set that option in the settings).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ivory Search - WordPress Search Plugin] Error on new version@manabeads Check the error message when you try to access the back end – it should be informing you that a link has been sent to your WordPress admin email address. That link will enable “recovery mode” which will get you in. From there, just disable the app or make one of the edits mentioned above.
Hey Jeff – sorry for not responding. I just didn’t have time to diagnose any further so I removed the plug-in and put the code manually into a child version of my template. Problem solved.
Incidentally, in case it helps, I’m fairly certain the issue began when I switched to gtag.js from the old system.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Site Goes Down When a Post is PublishedOdd, but will look into it! Thanks 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Site Goes Down When a Post is PublishedThis is marked as resolved but I don’t see a solution. I’m only asking as I’ve got a similar issue! It’s not every time we post, but maybe one in 4 posts cause a brief outage.
It was getting worse, then our host moved us to a new server as a freebie (no relation to this issues, they were jus migrating). And the problem vanished for a few weeks. Now it’s gradually coming back 🙁
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Responsive Flickr Slideshow] 404 on all pages using shortcodeTurns out it was a .htaccess error which caused issues with the URLs the plug-in generated… a sysadmin has altered mine to fend off a bot that was hammering the site. Turns out it had other side effects!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Responsive Flickr Slideshow] 404 error on all pages using shortcodeFigured it out – LiteSpeed Web Cache breaks it. I’ve disabled the cache.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Edit Flow] No editorial change notifications in 0.9It’s weird. I do seem to be getting some, but not all. And there’s no way to choose who gets them as there used to be.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Magic Embeds] New update (3.0.0) prevents loginI can confirm – fixed.
Thank you!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Amazon Link] Moved to new host, plugin causing 403 errorsYes, just moved to Krystla over the weekend.
I’ll try tinkering when I get home (much) later tonight. I also suffer from my work filtering things out! Including access to my host’s control panel 🙁
Again – thank you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Amazon Link] Moved to new host, plugin causing 403 errorsThanks for getting back to me, Paul – appreciated. I’ve checked each of your points:
1) A mixture! If I create a new post and name it, then click “Save” (e.g. draft) then the post is created and the title saved and the 403 displayed… but that’s it. No content, images, category, etc. If I click Publish, I get the 403, but the post is *not* published. I would say that falls under “failing to update the post”.
2) Did a quick product search (Author name Gibson) and it works fine.
3) PHP 5.6.33
Iain