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RSS Feed Error
David,
I think in the Talian series the RSS Feed Widget would set-up the feeds automatically (can’t remember) but now using the Stallion RSS Feed Widget seems like I’ve done something incorrectly.
When I click on the feed buttons it automatically goes to my c: directory trying to save a file named “feed” instead of going to the feed pages. I hope I’ve explained this correctly? Do you have any idea what I’ve done wrong?
Thanks,
Randy
RSS Feed Error
WordPress RSS Feed - The Page isn't Redirecting Properly Error
Stallion uses WordPress core RSS feed features, so nothing special about Stallion regarding feeds that could break because of Stallion.
When I try to load your feed in Firefox I see
The page isn’t redirecting properly
So you’ve broken something, no idea what.
Try disabling any WordPress plugins that are new.
If you think it is a WordPress theme issue switch themes to the default WordPress theme and check the RSS feed, if it’s still broke can’t be the WordPress theme, if it’s fixed the “The page isn’t redirecting properly error” it’s the theme.
David
WordPress RSS Feed - The Page isn't Redirecting Properly Error
WordPress Loads Slow
David,
I’m not sure if this is a Stallion problem or not, but when I’m using the widgets section and add or subtract a widget, it will take between 3-4 minutes to load the widget section. In other words, the right hand side of the screen is empty/blank for the loading period I’ve stated above.
Most of this started when the Stallion RSS Feeds Widget was working correctly, then and I’m not sure what happened, when clicked it would go to a bookmark page. I’ve sent you this problem before and you did not know what was wrong. However, I’ve played with this a lot and now when you click the RSS Feed it goes to index of/feed page. Could my version of Stallion 7.1.1 be corrupted or do you have any idea why this is happening? It used to go to a RSS page that displayed the articles.
Thanks,
Randy
WordPress Loads Slow
Reasons Why WordPress Runs Slow
Stallion makes no changes to the default WordPress RSS feeds so highly unlikely to be a Stallion problem, the feed widget is pretty much a couple of links to the feeds which WordPress core creates. Would be like me linking to your website, you click the link from here and conclude the link is causing your website to load slowly when it’s something else at fault.
Your feeds are no longer default looking, so not a clue what is wrong. Most times someone reports feed issues it’s a plugin problem, can be as simple as having blank lines at the bottom of a plugin file (poorly written PHP code). PHP doesn’t like blank lines and it can mess up RSS Feeds, though usually viewing source of the home page will show blank lines at the very top, basically the blank lines in the PHP plugin (or theme) files are replicated at the top. Having blank lines at the top of a feed seems to mess them up (no idea why).
The widgets issue is also highly unlikely to be Stallion, sounds like a server or resource problem, if WordPress can’t quickly access the MYSQL database for example it will act the way you describe. There are so many things that can go wrong, I’ve extensively tests Stallion to try to make it as efficient as possible, but I have no control over the plugins you install.
WordPress Autoblog plugins are resource intensive and if you are running a lot of plugins or you have a cheap server/hosting account or poorly configured server they can really slow down. I had to replace two new dedicated servers (one after the other) because I believe they were misconfigured by the server company, basically I was seeing CPU usage WAY above what was normal and the server was grinding to a halt!!!
These were not cheap dedicated servers, the companies best dedicated servers, but they were using a new configuration (think I was the first to use it) and I guess they got it wrong. Had to move to another server company because they couldn’t fix it (they blamed me, but the new servers from another place no problems with the backups from the old servers), so when something goes slow/wrong with awebsite can be something completely out of your control. All you can do is rule out problems starting with WordPress plugins, can also switch themes see if it helps.
The latest stallion zip file can be downloaded again, unzip it and use FTP to upload over your online Stallion folder, this will replace all the files IF something was corrupt (unlikely) this would fix it.
The database and memory usage stats built into Stallion can help with troubleshooting a problem. If you find your WordPress blog is using 500 extra database queries after activating a WordPress plugin you know the plugin is rubbish. A feature I was working on sent memory usage from around 10MBs to 60MBs because of a way I accessed the database, found the code at fault and fixed it. Had I kept the faulty code any WordPress blog running the feature would crash on a regular basis due to fatal errors (running out of memory).
David
Reasons Why WordPress Runs Slow
JQuery WordPress Plugin
Hi David,
I’m trying to install a WordPress JQuery Plugin , and my question is:
What’s the best way to install it? I’m trying to add the scripts to the header.php file, but also realize there is a header-2.php file too.
So which one should I use?
Also, if I need to apply CSS formating to the plugin, could I use a widget for that?
Thanks a lot
Héctor
JQuery WordPress Plugin
Adding Code to the WordPress header.php File
As you’ve found with Stallion there are two header.php files, header.php and header-2.php.
Header-2.php is used by the Stallion SEO Super Comments built in plugin (the code that turns comments into post like pages), so if you use it, it needs any additional code added to header.php added to header-2.php as well.
Two options, edited the two files manually or use the Stallion All In One SEO options page to add the code via the “Additional Sitewide Headers” form at the bottom. Anything added to that form will be loaded sitewide in the header area.
If you are doing a lot of code changes to files like header.php install a Stallion Child Theme, there’s a free example one on this site (link on home page somewhere). Install the child theme, and put your edited file in the child theme folder so when you update Stallion your changes aren’t lost. Basically Stallion checks the child theme folder for files like header.php and if they exist in that folder they are used instead of the files in the main Stallion theme folder. Makes updating custom installs so much easier since if you’ve edited half a dozen files they are all in the child theme folder and won’t be deleted when you run the theme updater.
Since the plugin is a JQuery plugin and they can be used to override CSS styles, I’ve no idea if additional CSS styles added by you (in any way) can override the javascript styling, you’ll have to test it.
David
Adding Code to the WordPress header.php File
Timthumb.php The cached image file seems to be corrupt
Here’s how to waste an hour trying to track down an error in the timthumb.php script that didn’t exist :-)
Recently updated Timthumb.php to the latest version 2.8.14 for the next Stallion Responsive update.
There was a security issue found in timthumb.php 2.8.13 which is part of Stallion Responsive 8.0, no need to worry I’ve never activated the feature that had the security flaw, never liked the idea of allowing thumbnails to be generated from external domains, so always disabled it completely just in case (better safe than sorry).
Anyway, been running the 2.8.14 script here for a couple of weeks and it seemed to be working fine, until today. Found some thumbnail images are not working, they were generating this error message when loading directly in a browser:
On rare occasions or after updating the Timthumb.php script file the thumbnails broke, can either wait for the cache to clear or use FTP to manually delete all the Timthumb.php images and let the script rebuild them. So logged in via FTP and deleted the thumbnails.
This fixed the issue, or so I thought. After checking multiple archive pages (where the images are generated) found some images still gave the “The cached image file seems to be corrupt.” error message, though the images producing the error changed as I again manually deleted the thumbnail images!
Getting a tad concerned now, weird stuff happening on a site could mean HACKED! If a hacker had messed with owner/groups it could stop files being saved(permissions issue) though that didn’t make much sense with the files changing that generated the error.
Made a full server backup just in case and started checking if anything had crashed, found nothing wrong. Uploaded the old 2.8.13 script which I knew worked for months with no issues, again same issue. That strongly suggested it wasn’t Timbthumb to blame.
Checked the error log file (where I should have first looked) and found a bunch of errors:
Hmm, out of disk space, don’t think so there’s loads of free room on the SERVER.
Now I set my domains to have unlimited disk space so this sort of thing (running out of disk space) doesn’t happen, would appear when I set this server up with Virtualmin I forgot to change the disk space allocation from 1GB to unlimited. Oops.
After changing the setting to unlimited and again deleting the cached Timthumb thumbnail images everything is working again.
That’s how to waste an hour tracking down a self inflicted error :-)
Better go check all the other domains on the server and set them all to unlimited disk space.
David
Timthumb.php The cached image file seems to be corrupt
error in H1 Title Text
Hi David,
I have this error which seems to be in the background behind the author box at bottom of page/posts
examples:
Page this comes from is here: http://neville-goddard.com/read-neville-goddard-lectures-on-line-1/ also here http://neville-goddard.com/neville-goddard-audio-collection/ also http://neville-goddard.com/neville-goddard-books/
It seems to be coming up on quite a few of the pages but not all
any ideas please
Many thanks and blessings!
Carl :-)
error in H1 Title Text
The Connection was Reset Error Message
The Connection was Reset Error Message will be a resource your webpage is loading which as the error message states a connection being reset.
The actual error message is loaded in a H1 header (that’s your browser), if you loaded the resource on it’s own the error message is all you would see. Since it’s in the middle of your page it’s not actually your website as such generating the error: unless the resource is on your site.
I don’t know which resource is having connection issues, sounds like it’s where your social media like buttons are. You’ll see this sometimes with social media buttons where the connection timed out while loading a FaceBook like button etc…
If it’s happening on rare occasions it’s probably not a big issue, if it’s happening a lot and you track the resource down to your website: for example if tying to load an image was timing out, it’s something to look into.
Search Google for:
This is searching your entire domain for webpages Google has indexed that include the text “Connection was Reset”. As you can see right now there’s none indexed.
If this was a big issue AND the error was part of your webpage you’d find pages listed.
This strongly suggest whichever resource is causing The Connection was Reset Error Message isn’t on your domain, could be a Facebook like button for example which would mean the error is on Facebook not your site.
If it is Facebook or another social media button you can track down where the error is by in FireFox by Right Click on the error message and if there’s a “This Frame” option, hover over it and “Open Frame in New Window”. You’ll get the site the error is on in a new window.
David
The Connection was Reset Error Message
seo stallion support -connection reset error message
Thanks David
Appreciated
Blessings and have a magnificent day
carl :-)
Installing Old Version
Morning Dave.
Back in 2011 I purchased Stallion Theme, latest version I have is 6.1.
I’ve been out of the website market since early 2012 at which point I ceased all my sites but I’m just about to start a new venture and would like to reinstall Stallion.
Should I install version 6.1 that I have or is there an upgrade path to your latest version?
Many thanks
Nigel
Installing Old Version
WordPress SEO Theme Updates
You can download the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme V7.1.1 from https://stallion-theme.co.uk/stallion-wordpress-seo-child-themes/.
If you lost your ID, use your order email address to recover it during activation.
V7.1.1 is out of date (2 years out of date), I’ve developed a new WordPress SEO package called Stallion Responsive.
If you are serious about SEO 2014/2015 you’ll need to buy a Stallion Responsive V8 license which are available through Clickbank at Stallion Responsive Sales Page for $200.
Note: I increased the price to $500 a license in September only to discover I couldn’t sell through Clickbank at the $500 price tag until I’d run a test period at no more than $200. Would have stayed with PayPal at $500, but want the Clickbank affiliate program for promotion.
So don’t wait too long, as soon as Clickbank has seen enough sales to trust it won’t generate loads of refunds/chargebacks the price goes up.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Updates