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Leslie B

14 years ago

I haven't noticed it on my blogs. Do you upgrade automatically or manually?

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theemperor 14 years ago

Didn't happen to me

But I only upgraded 3.0.0 to 3.0.1.

Did you upgrade from a very early version Ron?
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- Ron Douglas 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by theemperor
  
  Didn't happen to me
  
  But I only upgraded 3.0.0 to 3.0.1.
  
  Did you upgrade from a very early version Ron?
  
  I used the automatic upgrade from version 2.92.
  
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topaffilaite 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Leslie B

I haven't noticed it on my blogs. Do you upgrade automatically or manually?

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hireava

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

I just noticed that when I upgrade Wordpress to version 3.01, it automatically changes my privacy settings to "Search Engines Blocked."

Has anyone else noticed this?

I upgraded 5 different blogs and it happen with them all. Obviously that setting is not recommended for SEO purposes lol.

Really???? how this will effect the site?? and what will be the effect... coz I have plan upgrading my site...

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Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago

Where do you even look to find this out?
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- Ron Douglas 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim
  
  Where do you even look to find this out?
  
  Settings / Privacy
  
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  Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ron Douglas
  
  Settings / Privacy
  
  Thanks Ron. Mine are normal and I'm on 3.01.
  
  Strange that yours would have changed like that.
  
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  TSDMike 14 years ago
  
  I have updated to v3.01 for my blog, as well as the blogs of two of my clients and all of them were set as they were supposed to be - to allow search engines.
  
  Thanks Ron nonetheless, for passing this along. Better safe than sorry.
  
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  Aussie_Al 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for the heads up - I will have to check all of mine
  
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Ron Douglas 14 years ago

Originally Posted by hireava

Really???? how this will effect the site?? and what will be the effect... coz I have plan upgrading my site...

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Don't worry about the effect, just make sure your privacy setting are not blocking search engines. If it is, you would see a notice at the very top of the page saying "Search Engines Blocked". You can also just go to Settings / Privacy to see.
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AcmeDude

14 years ago

I have updated 3 blogs and havent seen that. Reading The general Wordpress 3.0 features seems "Search Engines Blocked" is used to prevent people from accidentally delisting themselves. Its placed in the wp-admin header sort of mini-alert for the user.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

You set it in Setting > Privacy... but in v.3.x.x it always warns you - next to your blog title at the top, which is a big improvement from the previous versions when if you forgot to set it "not blocked" after finishing the install/setup, you were just wondering why the SEs don't see your blog

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fmadison

14 years ago

I suspect that it may be a SEO plugin that causes this to happen to the main settings of wordpress. This would explain why others are not seeing this happening. Never the less I know the constant updates of wordpress plus each and every plugin makes for a nightmare to keep a wordpress site going.

Then throw in the theme you are using and hope it does not get broken by the upgrade...
Never the less it beats paying for things like Joomla...

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thebitbotdotcom

14 years ago

Just checked mine...3.0.2...didn't happen to me...

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- Ron Douglas 14 years ago
  
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  Ron looks like you are just lucky, I guess. LOL
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  Or unlucky lol. I guess I'm the only one that had this happen.
  
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Dr.faizan

14 years ago

Doesn't happen to my blogs.. Done it to 4 blogs and they are all fine.

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tpw

14 years ago

I noticed it before. I think it is a default setting.

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davidjames42973 14 years ago

This happened to me about a year ago. I couldn't figure out why my websites were being indexed on Google without any meta titles or meta descriptions. LOL! It was a default setting, but I haven't had a problem with it since the last upgrade...
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Mark Jordan

14 years ago

Just upgraded my blogs and this didn't happen to me. Maybe you ought to check your default settings.

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Matt Santos

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Ron Douglas

I just noticed that when I upgrade Wordpress to version 3.01, it automatically changes my privacy settings to "Search Engines Blocked."

oh man - been there, done that! that sucks! sorry dude!

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alanbray

14 years ago

Just so everybody here should know, the reason they do this is because they are showing that they dislike business blogs and for that reason they dont want the sites being indexed so that the value of wordpress as a business tool is gone.

They dont take it so far as to completely eliminate the option because there are other reasons for people to want indexing. Everyone should just take this as a heads up that the time of business blogs is limited and the search engines and the software creators wont tolerate it for too much longer.

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theemperor

14 years ago

Originally Posted by alanbray

Just so everybody here should know, the reason they do this is because they are showing that they dislike business blogs and for that reason they dont want the sites being indexed so that the value of wordpress as a business tool is gone.

What proof do you have of this? And who does "they" refer to?

As far as I am aware Wordpress installed on my server is totally under my control. The issue Ron found is probably a bug in the upgrade process and not a conspiracy by Wordpress.

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AllanWard

14 years ago

I recall there was some problems with one of the earlier incarnations of WP V2. If you installed via Fantastico, it defaulted to that setting - hiding the blog from google. I think WP fixed this later. Is it possible that the blogs were set up in the past 6 months and had this default setting that you hadn't noticed until now? Mine have all been fine once I changed that setting, and the upgrade to V3 hasn't changed anything.

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Colin Klinkert

14 years ago

To confirm, just checked my sites (a couple of them) and it seems fine, I will be sure to keep an eye on the new ones that my team builds, thanks for the heads up.

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mookinman

14 years ago

I've not seen this but I now feel like checking all my sites (it'll take a few hours!) just to make sure!

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jlucado

14 years ago

I've not had this problem with any of my sites, but I always use auto install.

I'm unclear why anybody would manually install when it's so easy to use auto install.

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Ron Douglas

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jlucado

I've not had this problem with any of my sites, but I always use auto install.

I'm unclear why anybody would manually install when it's so easy to use auto install.

The OP is referring to auto install.

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Blogmudgeon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jlucado

I've not had this problem with any of my sites, but I always use auto install.

I'm unclear why anybody would manually install when it's so easy to use auto install.

In my experience, manual install is primarily used by advanced developers in cases where there are a number of custom hacks made to the WP PHP and CSS files themselves. In this case, the developer makes code changes to the new package prior to installing the upgrade. Doing an automatic upgrade usually overwrites any custom changes that were made in the previous version.

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mistermint

14 years ago

I noticed this once Ron..

also..if your updates go wrong you get the site maintenance message..had to delete .maintenance a few times..

Gordon.

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jlucado

14 years ago

Sorry Ron,

I saw you original post and understood you used auto install. Didn't mean to imply anything otherwise.

I am just asking why do people manually install wordpress version updates. Maybe that question should be a separate thread.

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jlucado

14 years ago

@blogmudgeon

Not sure you are correct that auto updating a wordpress version will overwrite php and css. These are usually theme related within wordpress.

At least that is my experience, but what do I know? As you can see from my hub blog, and the trouble I am currently having changing the header dimensions and applying a new banner, I'm still implementing what I've thought I learned.

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Blogmudgeon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jlucado

@blogmudgeon

Not sure you are correct that auto updating a wordpress version will overwrite php and css. These are usually theme related within wordpress.

At least that is my experience, but what do I know? As you can see from my hub blog, and the trouble I am currently having changing the header dimensions and applying a new banner, I'm still implementing what I've thought I learned..

Hi Jerry,

I am talking about changes made to the platform itself--ways to change its behavior and performance. Often these sorts of code hack are necessary to get better integration with other applications, such as building a community that might be comprised of blog, forum, and gallery systems.

Here is an example of simple behavior changes:

Top WordPress hacks of early 2010

Others include how credits are displayed, copyright info delivered, image handling/blocking, or how certain menu systems operate with themes and giving them support.

Some CMS systems such as Joomla/Mambo are heavily hacked to achieve the desired results. This and security issues are reasons that I do not develop on that platform anymore, as upgrading is a PITA and not upgrading ends up being a site taken over by hostiles...

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mmurtha

14 years ago

Ron,

Yeah, I've seen it happen with the last 2 upgrades. Matter of fact, I believe there's another thread (older) about the same thing. It may have been a different version, but I do remember posting in it to saying it happened.

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Kerryrus

14 years ago

Strange...I always update my site automatically and never have I come across this problem. How weird

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DomenicoGrecojr 14 years ago

None of the members have replied that they got the same results as Ron. So maybe this applies only for version 2.92.
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SteveJohnson

14 years ago

There was a WP version a while back (don't remember which one exactly, I could check) where a WP developer added a fix on his own initiative that set new installs to "private" - exactly the opposite of the previous and expected WP behavior.

It was fixed in the next version after quite an uproar, and the developer who did it got spanked pretty good.

BUT - if you didn't catch it on install, you were blogging away or marketing away with your software set to block SEs.

I'm thinking that maybe is what happened to Ron - installed a blog a while back and maybe didn't notice that the privacy settings were whacky. That's part of the reason that the notification is in the header section of the latest version.