Then I started being barraged with all sorts of spam attacks. I had been getting them consistently for a couple of weeks from the same persistent I.P.s – I KNEW I had a problem, I just figured no one else was noticing, so I reached out to Akismet to ask for additional help to monitor and stop the attacks.

Beyond the initial BOT generic response to my plea for assistance, I reached a human who took my concerns seriously, worked quickly to assure me the attacks were being seen, monitored, and that many *more* than I had realized had already been caught and stopped. They began at once to remedy the situation and through a few steps on my end, have quickly and abruptly ended the attacks from being a menace.

Persistence was key in this situation on my part. Knowing what to do and how to do it came from the experts at Akismet. In this instance, having no spam plugin would have been tantamount to suicide for my wordpress blog. Having a blog with spam protection built-in was so seamless, I had assumed it wasn’t really doing anything.

How wrong I was.

we’d like to have the next/previous post links show up underneath each single post.

i tried adding this bit of code near the bottom of the single post template.

<div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link(); ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link(); ?></div>
</div><!-- #nav-below -->

here is the whole template so you can see where i inserted it.

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
			<div class="post-header">
				<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
				<div id="single-date" class="date"><span><?php the_time( 'Y' ); ?></span> <?php the_time( __( 'F j', 'vigilance' )); ?></div>
			</div><!--end post header-->
			<div class="meta clear">
				<div class="tags"><?php the_tags( 'tags: ', ', ', '' ); ?></div>
				<div class="author"><?php printf( __( 'by %s', 'vigilance' ), get_the_author()); ?></div>
			</div><!--end meta-->
			<div class="entry clear">
				<?php if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) the_post_thumbnail( array(250,9999), array( 'class' => 'alignleft' ) ); ?>
				<?php the_content(); ?>
				<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit this', 'vigilance' ), '<p>', '</p>' ); ?>
				<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
			</div><!--end entry-->
			<div class="post-footer">
				<p><?php _e( 'from &rarr;', 'vigilance' ); ?> <?php the_category( ', ' ); ?></p>
			</div><!--end post footer-->
		</div><!--end post-->
	<?php endwhile; /* rewind or continue if all posts have been fetched */ ?>
<div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link(); ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link(); ?></div>
</div><!-- #nav-below -->
	<?php comments_template( '', true); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
	<?php endif; ?>
</div><!--end content-->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

when the links appear, they overlap with the comments area… i’m sure this is an easy fix but i am still pretty new at this. thanks for any help!

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/vigilance/

I have found conflicting information as to whether this theme (Vigilance) supports excerpts, can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

At the risk of looking dim (Ok I admit it!) how do I do this?

Thanks

PS. I run a Mac.

I have customized almost everything the way I want to for this simple site, here:
https://catskillstime.hardpanfarm.com/what-it-is/

I wanted to further customize the post meta links, which are still using the theme’s default color scheme instead of the .link and .hover font colors I’ve specified in my child style sheet.

I thought that if I enabled Custom Colors, it would do the trick. Instead, the entire background color of the site changed (background color is not one of the options on the customize color Theme Option menu). I cannot figure out how to remove the custom color except by reverting to the Default theme colors (which have been overridden by my style sheet, except in the case of the post meta tag).

I’m new to CSS and PHP so still learning my way around. Any help for the following would be appreciated:

— Where might I look to change the default background color (other than the style sheet, where I have controlled all of the color tags)

— Where can I change the post meta style (other than the style sheet, where the styles I have chosen are being overwritten)

Thank you!

I am using a simple child derivation of Vigilance, with no custom post.php or page.php. I saw a reference to known issues with the thematic themes that pointed to co-authors not returning a value.

I also tried testing it on my local multi-site instal to ensure that it is not something in my child theme. Same issue applies with Vigilance itself.

Any ideas ?

Many thanks in advance.
Alice

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/

I can see in the source code that there is a Recent Articles widget. How can I move this down below my Mail Chimp widget (I’d like the first thing people see to be their oppty to register for the email list)… when Recent Articles is not showing in my side bar of widgets?

https://august.mostlymidwest.com/

I have a background image already (the wood) but I am interested in changing the white area to a background image or pattern. I am using the free version of the Vigilance theme.

Thanks!