Beware Your Privacy Settings In Wordpress

Hi All: This from My Hubby and his good Friend Brian Johnson of Commission Ritual This is a very important post today that concerns a bug in the latest version of wordpress that may be …. blocking your wordpress sites from the search engines like Google.. You Need To Check Your Wordpress privacy Settings in your Admin panel. If you recently installed a new wordpress site MAKE SURE you login and check the privacy settings. Brian  could not believe it when he did just that today  with his Blog to find that the setting was set to: Block the search engines like Google and technorati. UGH.. More updates coming soon … I wanted to get you this information ASAP. Hope This Helps Heather Mail this post

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11 Responses to “Beware Your Privacy Settings In Wordpress”

  1. adrian chan Says:
    August 19th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Hey there heather, good post on wordpress privacy settings..i checked my 1 and it was ok luckily!
    Newbie Hero Hey…U just need an outfit like wonder woman maybe?:)

  2. Kerie Says:
    August 21st, 2009 at 5:36 am

    Hi Heather

    Good post I checked mine straight away fortunately it was fine.

    Cheers
    Kerie :D

  3. Craig Crawford Says:
    August 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    Hey Heather,

    Just thought I’d pop in and say hello :)

    nice blog :) Looking Great!

    All the best!

    Craig

  4. Teddy Kasche Says:
    August 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Heather,
    Thanks for the tip. Luckily, mine was not changed. But had it not been for your post, I would not have checked.
    Teddy

  5. Rob Canyon Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Heather,

    Thanks for the heads up… Do you know if Wordpress has rectified things in their new release.

    Cheers,

    Rob

  6. Albert Mikha Says:
    August 26th, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Hi Heather,

    I have check my wordpress privacy setting and glad it show that my blog is visible to search engines.

    I was a little bit worried when read your post that wordpress setting is block my blog for serach engines.

    Thanks for this great post.

    Albert Mikha

    P.S : have you check my new online tool on my blog?
    It is to check pagerank, alexa and search engine backlinks for any site.

  7. Andy Michaels Says:
    August 26th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    Hi Heather,

    Thanks for the info. Not something I would have known to look for if you hadn’t brought it up. Koudos to you.

    Andy

  8. admin Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Hey Rob. I belive wordpress new version has rectified the problem

    Heather

  9. admin Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Glad your privacy settings are all ok

    Heather

  10. admin Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    I think everything is fixed in the new release

    Heather

  11. Helmy Says:
    September 7th, 2009 at 3:18 am

    Hi Heather,

    thanks for info here. I’m looking for solution of my newly developed blog, and your post is the answer.

    I also read that the problem is only occurin WP 2.8.4 version. CMIIW

    Helmy

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Dated: 18th August 2009
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