Title: Jack C's Replies | WordPress.org --- # Jack C [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches] Automated IP lookups generating 404s](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-ip-lookups-generating-404s/) * Thread Starter [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-ip-lookups-generating-404s/#post-11618225) * In case it helps anyone else – by grepping the sources on disk I found that ` geoip-api.meteor.com` shows up in a Woocommerce file `class-wc-geolocation.php`. Don’t know how that winds up making requests to my own site, but that must be the source. * I am guessing an IP made a request which triggered Shield, so it showed up in the IP list, but WP handled the request and Woocommerce tried to do a geo-lookup or whatever it is doing, which generated the 404 in my logs. * Jack * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches] Automated IP lookups generating 404s](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-ip-lookups-generating-404s/) * Thread Starter [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-ip-lookups-generating-404s/#post-11618200) * Hello, * Thanks for the reply. Very odd, I wonder where this is coming from. I have almost no other plugins except Woocommerce. The user agent string is WP and my own site URL, and the IP is the localhost, so AFAICT the request is originating on my own server. The fact that the IP shows up in Shield with matching timestamps led me to think that’s where it was coming from. * As to the chaos – the Shield admin could use a lot of work in the UI department, IMHO. They are all small things, but good UI is all about small details. Random examples: * – The nav icons down the right hand side of the page when browsing settings are both redundant and confusing. Are they the same as the items listed under the main settings nav drop down? Are they links? They are not the same colour as other links. Why are 2 of them different colours – maybe that’s the active item that I’m viewing? No, there are 2 of them, I can’t be viewing 2 items … confusing. Why are they there, if the same items are in the main nav? Do I need to review those as well, are there things in there I’m missing in the other 3 levels of Shield navigation? * – The ginormous blue “Save all settings” button is styled completely differently to … well, everything else in this plugin, as well as everything else in WP. The weird positioning stuck to the bottom of the page is also non-standard in WP. It looks like a malware popup. * – Settings -> General -> Disable Shield shows a toggle with “Enable/Disable Plugin Modules”. This is a classic UI problem – does flipping the toggle on enable or disable? It is also inconsistent with many other similar toggles throughout the admin (eg Settings -> Security Admin -> On/Off is very clearly just an enable toggle). Also, what “modules”? I thought this was a “disable shield” toggle? * – The “go pro” link in the main WP nav on the left is in yellow; the corresponding link in Shield’s own navigation is a particular shade of green, not used anywhere else in the plugin, or in WP. Why? Consistency – in colours, fonts, layouts, etc – is basic UI good practice. * – I count 6 different shades of green on the main dashboard. The overall effect is … chaos! Good practice is to limit the number of colours on a page, *especially* different shades of the same colour. * As I said all very minor things, and I’m sure I sound way too anal 🙂 But the overall impression I have when using the plugin admin is that it is chaotic and messy, and these are the reasons. * Thanks for your work, I’ve been using Shield for years. * Jack * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Yoast SEO - Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI] Site using HTTPS, but Yoast is linking sitemaps to HTTP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-using-https-but-yoast-is-linking-sitemaps-to-http/) * [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-using-https-but-yoast-is-linking-sitemaps-to-http/#post-5296388) * In case it helps future Googlers – it’s a day later and my sitemap has switched over to listing https URLs. I had assumed the sitemap was live, generated on demand, but it seems that’s not true and it just takes some time for it to be regenerated with the updated settings. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Yoast SEO - Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI] Site using HTTPS, but Yoast is linking sitemaps to HTTP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-using-https-but-yoast-is-linking-sitemaps-to-http/) * [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-using-https-but-yoast-is-linking-sitemaps-to-http/#post-5296387) * Did you ever solve this ? * I am seeing the same issue. I’ve just switched to https – I’ve updated the site and home URLs, I have 301 redirects from http -> https, all working as it should. The http version of my sitemap redirects to the https correctly, but all the URLs it lists are http. I am not using a cache plugin, so not sure what could be going on! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches] Update link does not provide update info](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-link-does-not-provide-update-info/) * Thread Starter [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-link-does-not-provide-update-info/#post-6021700) * Excellent, thanks! * Cheers, Jack * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WordPress not creating Image Sizes in Multisite Installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-not-creating-image-sizes-in-multisite-installation/) * [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-not-creating-image-sizes-in-multisite-installation/#post-5171172) * Turned out I did not have GD support installed! I’m using nginx/PHP-FPM and ( unlike Apache/PHP) it seems GD is not installed by default, which caught me out. Hope it helps someone else! * Cheers, Jack * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WordPress not creating Image Sizes in Multisite Installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-not-creating-image-sizes-in-multisite-installation/) * [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-not-creating-image-sizes-in-multisite-installation/#post-5171171) * Did you ever solve this ? * I have the same problem on a sub-directory multisite install. I have custom image sizes, but looking on disk, WP does not create *any* sizes. Only the original upload is there. WP 4.0. * I use the same theme on a separate single site WP install, and image sizes all work fine there. Must be something to do with multisite ? * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches] Firewall blocks editing users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-blocks-editing-users/) * Thread Starter [Jack C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jack-c/) * (@jack-c) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-blocks-editing-users/#post-5466401) * OK, thanks for the info! * Cheers, Jack Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)