reedie19

Yes, mainly due to the more tech-savvy assistance of my brother he got it sliding. I edited the line of plain text with the html that works on the live site and it switched to list mode. I’d touched nothing else so assumed the html had caused the problem. I deleted the html but it stubbornly persisted as a list. I should have checked the settings, you were of course right and all is now well (and I’ve rechecked and of course the html works fine, no idea how I managed to change the mode).

Thanks so much for your patience.

Regards

PS I should mention that GS did get back to me after I’d posted that they hadn’t!

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by reedie19.

Hi and thanks for the concern. I’ve not heard from the GS developer. I’ve decided that as my theme (a custom brand theme for our charity) has not been updated for five years, it is probably the cause and these conflicts are only going to get worse. Not having the skills or inclination to try and repair this elderly theme I’m rebuilding the site (Astra theme and Elementor builder) which will hopefully be maintained and do away with these updating problems.

Coincidentally I’ve just been trying to install DNT in my new front page (by dragging and dropping the DNT element from the WordPress list in the Elementor elemnts). It appears as a block with a wp logo, the editor takes me to the correct ticker info but there is nothing displayed on the published page. Any suggestions welcomed?

You asked me to update you:

As you suggested I installed jQuery Migrate; after over a week there have been zero deprecations (I unchecked live admin page deprecations to get a listing, but nothing).

I installed a Staging Site (sandpit) and investigated both DNT and another plugin that I can’t update without a conflict (which includes removing the ticker). The plugin is GS Logo slider; the update reports ‘Can’t load jquery’ ~ that remains unresolved.

I retried the DNT update and it worked without a problem, however I’ve no idea why as I don’t recollect doing anything significant. I tried to replicate the problem with jQuery Migrate deactivated in case something had been happening under the bonnet, but again it updated smoothly, so that remains a mystery.

Because I still had a problem with the other plugin I tried to install a different theme (2021) as suggested in your conflict checker. That produced a front page empty except for the top menu; the menu links took me out of the staging site to the live site so it looks like it would need a lot of configuration work to populate the theme.

I then deactivated all the plugins to test the update of the GS Logo Slider. Without any plugins activated it updated OK. On reactivating DNT that caused the conflict, but so did half of the other plugins. Reverting to the earlier version of GSLS all works as expected. If you have any suggestions I’d be grateful but it looks like I need to get back to the GSLS developer.

Hi t-p. I summonsed courage to do the recommended manual backup and manual update and all went well but no change, ie fault persisted. Just found a post about the AIO wp-security plugin; many others had the same problem, now resolved with a plugin update. Now having the skill to turn plugins on and off from the cpanel I was able to get back in and update the plugin and all is now well.

Hi Mark
Thanks for your patience. I have now resolved it, with apologies. I read an article on .htaccess and discovered to my surprise that there can be several of them on a site. I rechecked your article, pointing me to the public root. Since unsuccessfully looking there I switched on ‘hidden files’ and then found and edited a version of .htaccess in the site root (believing that to be the only one at the time). Now having actually followed your advice and found the public root version of .htaccess, the code worked exactly as you advise.
Unfortunately another case of ‘RTFI’
Regards

Thanks for your patience Mark.
I’ve retyped the code, using the CPanel text editor. I confirm that the encoding was UTF8 and the quote marks were vertical. I entered and tested the code lines one at a time, with hard refresh and cache bypass. No site crash this time (I’ve no idea what the difference is this time as I used the CPanel editor previously) and no suspicious behaviour with any of the code lines. However even though the site is working fine, I still get the same Site Health Status report ‘Not all recommended security headers are installed’ and then lists all six that the code should have installed.
My assumption is that the subsequent instruction:
# Added by provider
Options +Indexes
must over-ride the new code lines?
I think it’s time to draw comfort from your opening observation, ‘the security headers aren’t required, but a nice to have’ and live with it (unless you have any suggestions?)

Hi Mark
Thanks for the reply.

The code I used was from the link you recommended. My default code is:
# Added by provider
Options +Indexes

The code I added (from the link) was:
# Really Simple SSL
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security: “max-age=31536000” env=HTTPS
Header always set Content-Security-Policy “upgrade-insecure-requests”
Header always set X-Content-Type-Options “nosniff”
Header always set X-XSS-Protection “1; mode=block”
Header always set Expect-CT “max-age=7776000, enforce”
Header always set Referrer-Policy: “no-referrer-when-downgrade”
# End Really Simple SSL

I included the ‘Content-Security-Policy’ code as although not included in the composite at the bottom of the link it was listed in the individual examples above. I have tried both pasting in (from Notepad++) then when that created the error, I typed it in via the Cpanel editor (in case there were any encoding issues). Both had the same results.

I omitted to check ‘resolved’