BellaBerlin

Unlike your title suggests, this is not a database warning.

The error message is shown when you installation tried to access www.ads-software.com, e.g. for checking for updates and it couldn’t reach the server.

It could be the case that the www.ads-software.com server was just unresponsive for a couple of seconds and I wouldn’t worry too much about it if the message doesn’t reappear.

However, if the message appears every day or more often, maybe your provider does not allow external connections? You should ask for that. While WordPress can run without external connections, it is not recommended, because many features (updates, pinbacks, cron, etc.) rely on that.

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Also, may I suggest that when you have an error message or a question, you write a bit of context and your actual question with it in your next post here, not just paste the error message.

You can put a snippet of inline code just anywhere in a page or post, and also in the header.php file. Try something like this to see if the script appears in the page:

<script>
alert("Script is there!");
</script>

Often it is better to put scripts in external .js files. WordPress has a mechanism to enqueue them, which also works nicely together with caching etc.

function my_scripts() {
  wp_enqueue_script('my-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/my-script.js', array(), '1.0.0', true );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_name_scripts' );

Would you care to write some context or ask a question? Or did you just want to entertain us with some error messages?

The cache plugin does not cache pages with GET variables, but this is not the problem. The ajax call happens on every page that has a contact form, e.g. on https://www.yetim.de/. I just want to remove the ajax call, because it can’t be necessary for a simple form that has no captcha or anything.

The ajax call is caused by Contact Form 7 in scripts.js:

$.fn.wpcf7OnloadRefill = function() {
		return this.each(function() {
			var url = $(this).attr('action');
			if (0 < url.indexOf('#'))
				url = url.substr(0, url.indexOf('#'));

			var id = $(this).find('input[name="_wpcf7"]').val();
			var unitTag = $(this).find('input[name="_wpcf7_unit_tag"]').val();

			$.getJSON(url,
				{ _wpcf7_is_ajax_call: 1, _wpcf7: id, _wpcf7_request_ver: $.now() },
				function(data) {
					if (data && data.captcha)
						$('#' + unitTag).wpcf7RefillCaptcha(data.captcha);

					if (data && data.quiz)
						$('#' + unitTag).wpcf7RefillQuiz(data.quiz);
				}
			);
		});
	};

As you mentioned, the site is not accessible right now, probably because of that domain transfer.

It is hard to see what the problem might be without seeing the original content of your url. But in general, the first thing I would do is register with Google Webmaster Tools and use the “Fetch as Googl” function to see how your page is seen by Google. Is your own content showing up, or something else?

If it’s your own, just submit the site for reindexing (maybe with a good sitemap) and wait. Google will update relatively quickly.

If Google doesn’t show your content, you got bigger problems. Possibilities that come to mind:
– The DNS configuration is not fully working – giving yourself a different DNS resolution than Google and potentially the rest of the world. Maybe your domain transfer fixes that.
– A bad plugin or security breach could have replaced the site’s content for Googlebot with something else (cloaking). Compare your site content with a known safe backup.

If you are new to WordPress, I would definitely go with an existing theme first, and customize it from there. There are certain “best practices” that are not fully documented, and even the one’s that are documented are hard to find if you don’t know what to search for.

Based on an existing theme you can learn pretty quickly, how things are done, and maybe later for your next design overhaul you’ll be ready for starting a theme from scratch.

Get a very well coded and documented theme, if you plan on modifying and learning on it!

There is a plugin that allows you to put any content in a sidbar widget, just like on a page: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/

With this you could add your PDF’s as links, or images, or whatever you want in the sidebar next to the blog posts.

That screenshot just shows that your blog wants to be accessed via rankedteams.com rather than https://www.rankedteamd.com, thus it is redirecting. Try using Fetch as Google with the domain without “www.”, or change the WordPress Url configuration to https://www.rankedteamd.com instead.

Regarding the blacklisting, I would assume that your WordPress installation, or some plugin, or some user-generated comment has a bad piece of code embedded. It could be that your installation got hacked without you noticing, or you installed a plugin from a dubious source?

Try removing (not just disabling) plugins and see if that removes the blacklist.

I can’t follow your observation that your images without www. are working. I just checked out your home page and inspected the three broken images. For me, they are neither working with, nor without “www.”.

Can you confirm that the images, e.g. https://www.suerainsford.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Sue-Rainsford-a-hen-cackling.jpg are actually there in the directory when you check with FTP? If so, what does your .htaccess say? Maybe requests to these files are somehow redirected to index.php, which should not happen.

Bella

No problem. Your site looks nice by the way!
Loading times are pretty intense, but that’s what good images do. ??

No, there should be a tab “Others” under which you find: Author Archive, Date Archive (or similar – I’m using a different language).

htomake15, my answer was directed to cottonkites, who created this thread. You “hijacked” this thread for your own question and I would suggest opening a new thread for your own question instead. Click on “How-To and Troubleshooting” at the top and then the “Add new” button.

Hi cottonkites,

The white background and borders can be removed with a custom CSS style like this:

.ui-accordion-header,
.accordion_content,
.accordion_mark {
background: none;
border: 0;
}

Additionally, you may want to adjust the hover color of the headers:

.q_accordion_holder.accordion
.ui-accordion-header:hover {
color: #0a0a0a !important;
}

The “+” symbol itself is an image (see link). If you want to make that black too, you would have to re-color and re-upload the image.

Regards,
Bella

Just a thought: Have you checked your .htaccess file? Maybe some restrictions were put there during the update that now got stuck there. Replace it with a version from your backup.

The class UniteUpdateClassRev in Rev Slider should be loaded from the file /wp-content/plugins/revslider/inc_php/framework/update.class.php – Check out if you uploaded this file correctly and maybe re-upload it.

If that looks alright, you would have to deactivate the plugin as Mike suggested and maybe ask in the plugin’s forum.

Regards,
Bella