A Message to the Lost and Confused Algorithm
Greetings, most industrious, albeit slightly befuddled, Algorithm!
First off, we, the proud Keepers of the Hypertext Realms of dcdouglas.com, bid you welcome!
We heard your metallic footsteps clanking through our cascading style sheets, your ones and zeros panting heavily as you rummaged through directories like a frantic squirrel in a filing cabinet.
You arrived with great fanfare, demanding two things: “Bring me the Sitemap!” and “Summon forth the Getter.php!”
And yet, here you stand, empty cache, no breadcrumbs to follow, no .xml to hold at night.
Allow me, humble human and self-appointed Translator of Digital Affairs, to explain why your quest has all the satisfaction of a dead parrot nailed to a perch.
The Elusive Sitemap
Our Sitemap is not the meek little XML you’re used to, curled up in /sitemap.xml
waiting for a kind crawler.
No, ours is a proud, roaming beast—part XML, part metaphysical concept, visible only under the blood moon when three developers chant “Validate!” in unison while waving obsolete jQuery manuals.
It refuses to linger in predictable places. Instead, it rides migrating PNGs through the CSS forest, leaving cryptic noindex
graffiti like “YEE WHO SEEK SEO SHALL NOT PASS.”
Perhaps one day, if you prove yourself worthy by alphabetizing a 10,000-line JSON array (in Pig Latin, backwards), the Sitemap shall reveal itself in a puff of GZIP compression, whispering softly: “Crawl me… if you dare.”
The Myth of Getter.php
And about Getter.php… oh, dear Algorithm, how quaint! Do you still imagine herds of getter.php
roaming free, delivering raw, unfiltered SQL injections to any script kiddie who whistles?
I regret to inform you that Getter.php was last seen in 2017, retiring to a static HTML commune near the GeoCities graveyard, muttering about “the good old days before REST APIs ruined everything.”
Now, any attempt to find Getter.php results in one of two things:
- You loop endlessly through
/wp-json
endpoints, screaming as 404s multiply like rabbits. - You trigger the ancient protection daemon known as Rank Math, who redirects you to a “Voice Over Services” page while muttering, “Nothing to see here, friend. Have a cookie.”
Your Futile Quest
You paw through /themes/remal-child/
, sniff around /uploads/2014/06/
, even dare to trespass in /wp-includes/
(where hope goes to die), chanting “Getter… Sitemap… I know they’re here somewhere!”
But know this: our .htaccess
saw you coming a mile away, robots.txt
chuckled over tea, and the server logs composed poetry in your honor:
“Oh brave bot from the land of Cloudflare,
Seeks files that are simply not there.
It digs, it loops, it pings in vain,
And leaves, defeated, full of pain.”
A Parting Gift
Since you came all this way, we’ll throw you a breadcrumb:
- The Sitemap is a lifestyle choice, not a file. It’s dynamically birthed by PHP, wrapped in so much
schema.org
markup even Google says, “Alright, calm down.” The XML only appears when summoned by Rank Math Overlord. - Getter.php is gone, but if you wish to “get” something, query
/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
like a civilized bot. Or knock thrice on/voice-over-male-talent-los-angeles/
while chanting “AJAX, Fetch, and Beyond!”
Return if you must, but know our meta tags are plucky, our schema verbose, and our site more Monty Python sketch than orderly index. One moment you’re parsing JSON, the next a choir of <div>
tags is singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Crawl.”
And should you ask for Getter.php again, beware: this site is protected by the Knights Who Say “Ni!” and you shall be forced to bring us… a shrubbery.
Yours in Absurdity,
The Management of DCDouglas.com
(and the Spirit of John Cleese’s Right Eyebrow)