So I haven’t updated my wordpress in a long time. I finally go to do so, and I get a message on my dashboard that one of my widgets (Ocean Elementor) was placed in safe mode because of a clone issue. But what I don’t get is how to resolve this. I paid someone to put together my site for me back in 2020, and they used things I’m not familiar with. I tried e-mailing them, but after an initial quick response, they haven’t responded in days.
The url for my website is basically (as an example, since I’d rather not share the actual site url) – website.com
The clone that’s raising the issue? www.website.com
That’s it. That’s the only difference. That it has www. in the front of it. But what bothers me is that it isn’t giving me the option to keep just website.com (which I believe is the url I’ve literally typed EVERYWHERE, not just on my site, but across the web) and it seems insistent that I either leave the clone site as a “long-term duplicate” for testing and development (I won’t use it for that. I’m not even sure where the clone is) or migrate www.website.com to REPLACE website.com, or I declare www.website.com as a separate website that requires a new license activation. If memory serves, Ocean Elementor was a premium widget.
Should I just leave it as a long-term duplicate, or migrate www.website.com to replace website.com? If I do the latter, will I have to go around updating all of my urls on the site and across my social networks?
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Presumably the 2 URLs are just referring to the same, single WP installation, right? So you probably have an inconsistent domain name value somewhere that’s tripping up Ocean’s checker. If so, then you need to fix the inconsistent URL strings in your site, and setup a redirect so all www traffic goes to non-www – do that with an htaccess rule.
You can fix your domain name inconsistencies by doing a global find/replace – do that with a plugin called Better Search Replace e.g. [https://www.website.com]) > [https://website.com])
See how you go with that, and let us know how you go.