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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Timely All-in-One Events Calendar] Doesn't work with search botsI’ll leave my previous response, only to suggest that the following support link was immediately successful in solving the problem.
Limiting excessive Google Crawls
The recommendation of adding the following code stopped the Google Bot within 10 seconds of uploading the updated robots.txt file.
Disallow: /calendar/action:posterboard/ Disallow: /calendar/action:agenda/ Disallow: /calendar/action:oneday/ Disallow: /calendar/action:month/ Disallow: /calendar/action:week/ Disallow: /calendar/action:map/I would really suggest that anyone experiencing high CPU usage try this solution first. It might even be worth mentioning this in an overlay during install and after updates. It really is likely the single largest factor in poor site performance due to heavy loads from unseen traffic.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Timely All-in-One Events Calendar] Doesn't work with search botsAgreed. It took months to track down the issue, but after looking at average CPU utilization we’ve identified the one website that was using AI1EC.
It’s a great program, but blocking bots is not a solution. Using WordFence, we’ve seen the GoogleBot consistently crawling for updates.
Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-130.googlebot.com 77 hits
Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-137.googlebot.com 66 hits
Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-128.googlebot.com 61 hits
Hostname: crawl-66-249-74-139.googlebot.com 60 hitsThis was over a 5 minute period. I think we’ll have to find a different solution as we don’t have time to rewrite the program to reduce bot loads.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Relevanssi - A Better Search] $wpdb->prepare errorsSorry, the WP version is 3.5 as stated above, not 3.4.2 as in the sidebar. I saw that just as I was hitting submit.