Title: timwoolfson's Replies | WordPress.org --- # timwoolfson [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Mixed Content Error contact-form-7/images/ajax-loader.gif](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixed-content-error-contact-form-7-images-ajax-loader-gif/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixed-content-error-contact-form-7-images-ajax-loader-gif/#post-13344302) * Yup, nice1 – after resaving the theme options and reclearing all the caches – Rocket – CloudFlare etc. we’re good – thanks 🙂 * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Sitemap Page] Divi Theme compatible](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/divi-theme-compatible-3/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/divi-theme-compatible-3/#post-10929515) * Hi Greg, * Under Exclude from traditional sitemap, do you see Exclude Custom Post Type and Exclude Taxonomies – look very carefully at the custom post types and taxonomies that are there – make sure you understand what each one is and does. * Do you still have a problem? * Regards, * Tim Woolfson Profitable Web Projects [https://www.profitableweebprojects.com](https://www.profitableweebprojects.com) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Private Content] Styling of private content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-of-private-content/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-of-private-content/#post-10790398) * I guess we could just use text within the private content. Maybe what we need is more a notes type plugin. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Sitemap Page] sorting order seems to not work on product ordered by menu-order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-order-seems-to-not-work-on-product-ordered-by-menu-order/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-order-seems-to-not-work-on-product-ordered-by-menu-order/#post-10681150) * The default ordering is always DESC – this is because the default sort is by postdate. So most recent at the top makes sense. You can change the sort by using sort=”menu_order” or sort=”post_title”, these sorts work on custom post types as well as ordinary posts but the sort order parameter only works for ordinary posts, for custom posts when sorted by menu_order or post_title the ordering is always DESC, order=”ASC” has no effect. This would seem to be a bug! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] Google Search Console fails to read Yoast Sitemap while AIOWP Security is active](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/#post-9944155) * Thanks catalysts – very much appreciate you taking the time to share that info. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] AIOWPS blocking sitemap_index.xms generated by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/#post-9943451) * And are you using all AIOWPS features? We are using version 4.3.1 and score 225/500 – I have exported our settings. Do you want me to send you our settings so you can compare? If so, contact me by email please. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] AIOWPS blocking sitemap_index.xms generated by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/#post-9943106) * The error message in search console is “Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.” turning off AIOWPS yields “No errors found.” * The theme in question in my case is Avada. There are various plugins of course! * Are you using the free Yoast plugin or the premium/paid version? We are using the free version. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] AIOWPS blocking sitemap_index.xms generated by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/#post-9942752) * > I have never run into this issue myself. * So, you have a site with AIOWPS and Yoast and you are using Google Search Console and you have submitted the yoast generated sitemap URL sitemap_index.xml via Google Search Console and when you test that URL no errors are generated – please confirm. * I have tested, and the error is happening with the firewall rules off in AIOWPS * > In regards to the following comment. Can you provide more information as to > how is AIOWPS plugin killing your sites organice search placement? * The supposition is that when AIOWPS blocks sitemap_index.xml for googlebot – Google penalises the site for having a submitted sitemap which is inaccessible. This is the same supposition as Catalysts made on the other thread, I have asked him to confirm that the Search rankings recovered after Search Console could read the sitemap – our have not yet – in any case – submitting a sitemap to google and then blocking access for the googlebot to it would not seem to be wise SEO practice! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] Google Search Console fails to read Yoast Sitemap while AIOWP Security is active](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/#post-9942745) * [@Catalysts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catalysts/) * > Because of the error in Search Console and the critical drop in rankings, we’ve > decided to remove the plugin completely. * Did the critical drop in rankings rectify itself once search console could read the sitemap file? How long did it take? * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] AIOWPS blocking sitemap_index.xms generated by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/#post-9938833) * Do you not have a test site? If not, you should have… 😉 * If so, just install yoast (free) and activate – think the default settings will create the sitemap page * set-up google search console (takes 10 mins) submit sitemap URL (takes 5 mins) * If you need help, I´m willing to help but I´d rather not use a production environment for testing and I´d rather leave you with a test environment you can use to test future releases quickly and easily. Add me to your test site as a WP user if you need help or pass me the URL and I will set-up Search Console for it and in time add your google account as a user so you can test. * I´ve contacted you via [http://mbrsolution.com/contact-mbrsolution](http://mbrsolution.com/contact-mbrsolution) so you have my email etc.. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall] Google Search Console fails to read Yoast Sitemap while AIOWP Security is active](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-fails-to-read-yoast-sitemaop-whil-aiowp-security-is-active/#post-9938131) * I have reported the issue to AIOWPS [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aiowps-blocking-sitemap_index-xms-generated-by-yoast/) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[UTM tags + Landing page + "gclid" tracking for Contact Form 7] Not working for AdWords](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-adwords/) * Thread Starter [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-adwords/#post-9894851) * We left it running and a genuine user’s #Visitor gclid# has just come through so I´m not sure why it didn´t work for our test, perhaps it only works on user’s first visit? * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[WP Sitemap Page] Dope!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dope-4/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dope-4/#post-9791873) * There’s a setting that allows you to exclude IDs * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Easy Updates Manager] Automatic Updates not working on Multisite?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working-on-multisite/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working-on-multisite/page/2/#post-8806824) * To help you get to the bottom of this: * (Network) Install the wp crontorl plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/) Activate Go to /wp-admin/tools.php?page=crontrol_admin_manage_page Using “Run Now” against wp_version_check should cause the autoupdate to occur You can tell what version you have quickly via /readme.html * Hope this helps. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Easy Updates Manager] Automatic Updates not working on Multisite?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working-on-multisite/) * [timwoolfson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwoolfson/) * (@timwoolfson) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-not-working-on-multisite/#post-8716121) * Note that by default wordpress doesn’t do ANY automatic updates when it detects that version control is in use as evidenced by the text “For Developers: To enable automatic updates even if a VCS folder (.git, .hg, .svn etc) was found in the WordPress directory or any of its parent directories: * add_filter( ‘automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout’, ‘__return_false’, 1 );” * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates) * Was that your issue? 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