Site acting up…. Help please?

  • Someone with little knowledge of HTML recently fooled around with my website (cosnturcted using WordPress, naturally). I’ve tried to figure out what code they changed but have as of yet not been able to fix it.

    The changes have produced two problems:

    1)

    My front page blog posts are “spilling into” my sidebar. Check out https://www.publicforumzone.com and you will see what I’m talking about. Specifically, the dashed line underneath the title of each post extends into the sidebar.

    2)

    On some of my pages, the content is being dupilcated. Check out https://publicforumzone.com/?page_id=6 to see what I am talking about.

    Any insight into the resolution of these two probelms would be incredibly appreciated. I have been pulling my hair out trying to fix them.

    Best,

    Rick

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  • Hey pub,

    You’ve got some errors in your code. Try validating your site at:
    https://validator.w3.org/ and fixing all errors you find.

    You have two opening tags for sidebar divs, for example.

    I’m also concerned that you have an avalanche of spam advertising links in your code at the bottom to gore-mtn-ski-chalet and other sites. You may have been hacked, unless you’re doing this purposefully.

    Either way, it’s a very bad scene and should be cleaned up immediately.

    Also, for security, you may want to upgrade to a more secure, current version of WordPress.

    Thread Starter publicforumzone

    (@publicforumzone)

    sewmyheadon,

    Thanks so much for your reply.

    I know very little about this process. I clicked the link and am not sure what to use or how to use it.

    I would appreciate anything you can do to dumb this down to my level. For the record, the advetrtising links you spoke about were not intentional.

    Copy / paste your url into the the input from the link sewmyheadon gave you. And the validator will tell you what errors you’ve got. Probably some divs haven’t been closed. The repeting of the comments must occur because of a second loop that does the same thing. Who messed around with your wordpress theme mate?

    Thread Starter publicforumzone

    (@publicforumzone)

    When I enter my URL, I get a failed validation error message.

    “Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 2528 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

    The error was: utf8 “\xC3″ does not map to Unicode”

    Thread Starter publicforumzone

    (@publicforumzone)

    bump.

    Hey pub,

    Yep, I see what you mean. I am using the HTML Validator extension to Firefox and it, eventually, will say there are ~77 errors. Some of these are JavaScript things that you wouldn’t be able to do much with. Others are things like incorrect closing of xhtml tags.

    But before I got into trying to fix validation issues, I’d hunt down and squash the overwhelming amount of spam links on your site.

    Seriously, there are thousands. There are 2214 lines of spam code on your home page – each one containing multiple links.

    I have a fast machine and it takes me maybe 30 seconds to view the source on one page.

    My guess is that your theme or WordPress install has been hacked and you need to fix this soon or it will cripple your site.

    If you downloaded this theme, you may check it for malicious code, but my guess is that this came after the fact. I’d check all of your theme files first.

    From what I can see they’re in your The NFL Nationals 2008 post and in your footer.

    Good Luck!

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