SEO Pressor WARNING!!! and help please

13 years ago

I know your going to hate to hear this. But I tell everyone of my clients and anyone who runs crappress, backup before you make any changes. Themes, plugins, updates etc etc. Backup backup backup. It's a learning experience thats painful enough that it should never be repeated by anyone. This goes really to the heart of anything you have on the web thats important. Backup backup backup

EDIT: Does your web host do daily backups that you could recover from?

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kiddi 13 years ago

Nope, they do weekly backups and the last one was on the 20th.

I do manual backups myself, but the last one was on the 16th.
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Rob2009

13 years ago

Yeah, good advise, plugin should not do that. Feel sorry for you

Can anyone suggest an easy, good back up plugin for wordpress ?

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alexcoch

13 years ago

and also dont forget to always empty your wordpress cache after install many plugins..u can use w3 total cache plugin.

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Chase Shelby

13 years ago

Well on the plus side, at least you are reminding the rest of us us that we need to manually back up more

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Nate Simms

13 years ago

This is way you should ALWAYS backup your entire database before installing a plugin.

Is it a pain in the butt to do so? Yes.

... but, if not, things like this can happen.

Nonetheless, sorry to hear that this happened to you. Hopefully other can learn from your misery.

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Mark Hess

13 years ago

Why don't you try contacting Daniel Tan and getting his thoughts on what's going on, it could be a simple fix or some sort of conflict with another plugin.

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Rob2009

13 years ago

Yeah, good advise, plugin should not do that. Feel sorry for you

Can anyone suggest an easy, good back up plugin for wordpress ?

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kiddi 13 years ago

I will be faster restoring the posts myself than contacting him and waiting for a reply.

But yea I will never make the mistake again of not backing up before installing a plugin
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- Istvan Horvath 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kiddi
  
  But yea I will never make the mistake again of not backing up before installing a plugin
  
  Better yet think twice before installing plugins that are not absolutely necessary.
  
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  kiddi 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath
  
  Better yet think twice before installing plugins that are not absolutely necessary.
  
  Yup that's true.
  
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  Yoong 13 years ago
  
  Hey Kiddi,
  
  I've use SEO pressor numerous times with no problems.
  
  Possibly pilot error.
  
  Let us know what happens.
  
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rts2271 13 years ago

Merry Xmas everyone.

I have written a backup program that can be triggered by visiting the script or embedding in a CRON. I am providing no support or warranties for it. You can download it here http://www.list-doctor.com/wpbackup.php.zip It will create a backup file wpbackup_DATE.sql of your WP database. It will display the name based off the date EXAMPLE: wpbackup_20110824.sql

manual trigger http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/wpbackup.php

The file must be placed in the same blog folder as the wp-config.php feel free to inspect it, but do not try to sell it or claim you wrote it or I will monkeystomp you.

The command to add it as a daily cron is as follows

/usr/bin/php -q PATH/wpbackup.php > /dev/null

Replace the PATH in the cron with the full file path to the wpbackup file.
Run the cron no more than once a day and remember to purge old backups as they can eat up some space on bigger blogs.
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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

On the other hand... since it already happened.

Did you check your database (with phpMyadmin) that the posts were really truncated? Or, hopefully, it's just a display issue?

I'd deactivate all the plugins, switch to the default theme and check the site again.
But first of all, take a look at the database and verify what content is there for the posts.

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kiddi

13 years ago

I'm not very familiar with working on the database, but I am currently rebuilding the posts from Google Cache (thank god for that).

It might be a display issue that might easily be fixed, but I have a high traffic blog and need to get this fixed asap.

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Originally Posted by kiddi

I'm not very familiar with working on the database,

Sorry, nothing personal... but WP-users, instead of chasing all kind of useless plugins should ALWAYS learn the basics to maintain their sites: FTP; file editing on computer (NEVER with the online theme editor); database manipulation with phpMyadmin (installed with every cPanel). And the basic troubleshooting methods: kill the plugins, back to default theme etc.

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kiddi 13 years ago

I don't go around chasing useless plugins. I have the minimum amount of plugins on my site and am familiar with FTP, file editing, HTML and CSS, and other things.

But I do not know much about PHP or MySQL databases and don't think it is necessary in order to have a simple wordpress blog. I've never had theis kind of problem before and I have been doing this for a long time.
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Bill_Z

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Better yet think twice before installing plugins that are not absolutely necessary.

Plugins which help with on-page SEO are anything but unnecessary. I don't use this one but I do use another one and it's quite helpful.

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Sorry, nothing personal... but WP-users, instead of chasing all kind of useless plugins should ALWAYS learn the basics to maintain their sites: FTP; file editing on computer (NEVER with the online theme editor); database manipulation with phpMyadmin (installed with every cPanel). And the basic troubleshooting methods: kill the plugins, back to default theme etc.

People use Wordpress because it's EASY to use. You think every person who uses wordpress should know FTP, HTML, and database manipulation? That would wipe out 95% of wordpress users.

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Nate Simms

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bill_Z

Plugins which help with on-page SEO are anything but unnecessary. I don't use this one but I do use another one and it's quite helpful.

... I don't think that on-page SEO plugins are necessary. I can quickly scan any post on a Wordpress blog and say whether it is fully optimized or not.

If you are serious about using SEO to get traffic, you should know enough about it to not need a plugin telling you what are you are missing and/or needing to do.

People use Wordpress because it's EASY to use. You think every person who uses wordpress should know FTP, HTML, and database manipulation? That would wipe out 95% of wordpress users.

I do agree with you here, though. I think Wordpress was, in part, created to cater to the crowd of people who rather not learn about all of that.

Of couse, by learning it, Wordpress only becomes more powerful and customizable.

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bill_Z

Plugins which help with on-page SEO are anything but unnecessary. I don't use this one but I do use another one and it's quite helpful.

There are plugins and plugins... Of course, there things that everybody should do in order to optimize their website (WP or not) - those are just based on common sense... which, of course, is the least common

However, the proliferation of SEO gurus and SEO plugins make me think they are promoting "voodoo science' - nothing that one cannot do with a few minutes of editing.

I know, my above statement is controversial but I have never seen proof to the contrary.

Originally Posted by Bill_Z

People use Wordpress because it's EASY to use. You think every person who uses wordpress should know FTP, HTML, and database manipulation? That would wipe out 95% of wordpress users.

Which wouldn't really be such a bad thing... LOL

Anyway, they don't need that knowledge until a disaster like the one that started this thread occurs. Then it comes handy. (Of course, you can outsource it...)

A second thought about the 95%. If WP is the only "tool" you are using in your business (because we are NOT talking about hobby bloggers!) then yes, a business owner should be familiar with his bread-winner tool or have somebody on his payroll who can fix any glitch. Especially, with a "high traffic blog".

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rts2271

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

There are plugins and plugins... Of course, there things that everybody should do in order to optimize their website (WP or not) - those are just based on common sense... which, of course, is the least common

However, the proliferation of SEO gurus and SEO plugins make me think they are promoting "voodoo science' - nothing that one cannot do with a few minutes of editing.

I know, my above statement is controversial but I have never seen proof to the contrary.

Which wouldn't really be such a bad thing... LOL

Anyway, they don't need that knowledge until a disaster like the one that started this thread occurs. Then it comes handy. (Of course, you can outsource it...)

A second thought about the 95%. If WP is the only "tool" you are using in your business (because we are NOT talking about hobby bloggers!) then yes, a business owner should be familiar with his bread-winner tool or have somebody on his payroll who can fix any glitch. Especially, with a "high traffic blog".

I think the real gem here Istvan is that SEO is in such a fluid state now that results are determined by viewer behavior, location and many other factors. A well written piece of topical content has more SEO power in it then any markup or tagging could ever do.

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rhinocl

13 years ago

Why not edit with the theme editor? If something goes wrong you can always
A) download the theme again
B) download the theme to another site and copy the file that you were messing with back to the original site.
I find it much easier to do this when changing colors for example.

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rts2271

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rhinocl

Why not edit with the theme editor? If something goes wrong you can always
A) download the theme again
B) download the theme to another site and copy the file that you were messing with back to the original site.
I find it much easier to do this when changing colors for example.

Stop: Hammertime. Re-read the OP.

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Karen Barr

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rhinocl

Why not edit with the theme editor? If something goes wrong you can always
A) download the theme again
B) download the theme to another site and copy the file that you were messing with back to the original site.
I find it much easier to do this when changing colors for example.

You can't download it again if it's a custom theme you created.

I used to be very lazy and edit the theme files directly on the site. Then I discovered why you shouldn't do that when my client logged into the admin panel and "I don't know what I did but it looks all funny now, help!" - installed another theme and deleted the theme I had made and customised. I had to reload the theme from my original copy and then re-do ALL the customisation that I had done since. Oy.

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kiddi

13 years ago

And apparently the plugin messed with a bunch of my older posts... although it didn't erase parts of them like it did with my 10 latest articles. This is going to take me all day to fix.

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Tom Brownsword

13 years ago

Get wp-db-backup. Set it up to send the backups daily (at least) to a Gmail account. Set up a Gmail filter to send it to the trash, where it will sit for 30 days until Google permanently deletes it.

Presto! You have 30 days worth of blog database backups waiting for you at any given time -- and zero effort on your part after you set it up.

NOTE: This only backs up the database, not the files.

I also create my blog posts in a text editor, then save a copy on my computer so that I have an additional backup.

HTH,
Tom

P.S. -- Sorry to hear about that; the Google cache is probably your best bet.

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Patrick

13 years ago

Do manual backups, don't depends on plugins for that.

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Nate Simms 13 years ago

Originally Posted by schwarzes

Do manual backups, don't depends on plugins for that.

I agree with this, as I believe Istvan would (who I trust more in WordPress related problems than the developers of WordPress).

I believe you can setup CPanel to do automatic backups?
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- rts2271 13 years ago
  
  Never rely on a backup plugin. Do it manually or a outside script or as a cpanel backup worst case scenario. Do not trust the system thats not trustworthy to manage your backups.
  
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Tom Brownsword

13 years ago

Originally Posted by schwarzes

Do manual backups, don't depends on plugins for that.

I can certainly appreciate that statement. If your risk tolerance is such that you do not trust an automated backup solution, then you will need to carve out the time to do regular backups.

Speaking solely for myself, I have confidence in the plugin -- as well as my web hosting company's ability to get the daily backups to my Gmail account. I don't have the desire to run manual backups as it would cut into my "money time". That's why I've accepted the risk to trust my WP database backups to the wp-db-backup plugin. I also check them on a regular basis to ensure that:

1. They get delivered.
2. There's data in them.
3. They can be restored to a blog.

I also save a copy of the backups to my local computer "every once in a while" (I need to work this into a regular schedule; thanks for making me think!), just in case something happens to my Gmail account.

I am a certified computer security pro, so I know the value of backups (and can tell you story after story about people who wish they had one five minutes after their web server or computer went bad). I've never had a problem with this plugin, nor have I had a problem with my hosting company getting the backups to me. But each person needs to make their own decision based on their risk tolerance and circumstances, and "manual backup" is an effective way to do it.

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rts2271

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Tom Brownsword

I can certainly appreciate that statement. If your risk tolerance is such that you do not trust an automated backup solution, then you will need to carve out the time to do regular backups.

Speaking solely for myself, I have confidence in the plugin -- as well as my web hosting company's ability to get the daily backups to my Gmail account. I don't have the desire to run manual backups as it would cut into my "money time". That's why I've accepted the risk to trust my WP database backups to the wp-db-backup plugin. I also check them on a regular basis to ensure that:

1. They get delivered.
2. There's data in them.
3. They can be restored to a blog.

I also save a copy of the backups to my local computer "every once in a while" (I need to work this into a regular schedule; thanks for making me think!), just in case something happens to my Gmail account.

I am a certified computer security pro, so I know the value of backups (and can tell you story after story about people who wish they had one five minutes after their web server or computer went bad). I've never had a problem with this plugin, nor have I had a problem with my hosting company getting the backups to me. But each person needs to make their own decision based on their risk tolerance and circumstances, and "manual backup" is an effective way to do it.

Best regards,
Tom

Your faith is misplaced and has too many points of failure. There is no such thing as computer security pro's. Security is a illusion. Disaster recovery is where the focus needs to be.

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kiddi

13 years ago

Thanks for all the comments guys, I have gone through all of my posts and fixed them.

I will definitely never update anything or install any plugin without performing a full manual backup.

And I'm going to request a refund for that plugin.

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mtntgr

13 years ago

checkout wptwin
(from Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos)
it comes with an upsell option to manually backup to AmazonS3, etc...

i've got it (minus upsell) seems to work pretty slick

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ps. i've tried SEOPressor with no problems
(don't find its any better than YoastSEO - free!)

Originally Posted by kiddi

Thanks for all the comments guys, I have gone through all of my posts and fixed them.

I will definitely never update anything or install any plugin without performing a full manual backup.

And I'm going to request a refund for that plugin.

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Summer1

13 years ago

Originally Posted by kiddi

Hello.

I just bought and installed the SEO Pressor plugin.

I really didn't do anything with it, I just changed a few basic settings and when I go to my blog and check my posts, the plugin has DELETED everything from my last 10 posts after the  tag!

My last backup was on the 20th of august, and it looks like the best option for me is to rebuild the posts from the Google Cache

But GOD DAMN IT! This is by far the worst purchase experience I have ever had.

I have the same exact problems with the most recent version.

I had too have to restore my newest backup database. Not only the more tag was cropped, but my youtube videos are also gone.

I really like SEOpressor, therefore I recommend this plugin in my blog too.

But with the bug of the recent version (obviously I am not alone), I currently give a banner to warn my visitors not to buy the plugin that I currently recommend until it gets fixed.

Will I get sued of doing this?

To be honest, I really recommend this plugin, get a decent amount of sales, but I don't want my readers get the same problems like I do, and I recommend it on some of my posts, so it is impossible to edit them one by one.

I will remove the banner once the problem isn't there anymore.

Please help!

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

For all the users out there:

If the plugin does all the miracles it promises on its sales page - WHY do they need to post 6 [six] spam comments in the last several days only on one of my blogs?
(yes, I have screenshots of the comments in my spam)

Shouldn't they be able to rank themselves on page one without the need to spam blogs? And before you say it was affiliates - that's true only for 2 spam comments. The rest is linked directly to their main page.

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markvsc

13 years ago

Agreed - I've gotten quite a few spam comments recently from them.

BTW, my WP sites rank very well and have been consistently without using SEOPressor.
I just use good ole common sense on-page optimization and a good backlinking strategy.

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Originally Posted by markvsc

BTW, my WP sites rank very well and have been consistently without using SEOPressor.
I just use good ole common sense on-page optimization and a good backlinking strategy.

BINGO! We have a winner ^^

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