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If you have indeed deleted one or more of your wordpress files (such as your wp-login.php file), you can either:

a) try to figure out which ones have been deleted and re-upload those files only, or
b) do a complete re-install of your site.

If you go with option b), make sure you backup your database and all of the files in your wp-content directory first.

After you re-install the wordpress files to your site, you can re-enter the necessary values in your wp-config file (just like you did the first time), then re-upload your wp-content directory.

What happens if you type:

https://www.yoursitename.com/wp-login.php

Thanks, samboll. Is there some magic threshold number of posts or amount of time? Or is that knowledge kept secret from the teeming hordes?

From your WP admin page, go to the “Pages” page. It should show a list of all the pages you’ve created for your site. For each one, you can select “Edit” to edit different things about each page. Toward the bottom is an “Allow Comments” checkbox; uncheck it and comments will be disabled for that page.

What happens if you type the following into your browser address bar:

https://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/

I’m guessing you already followed the link in the below instructions, which are found near the bottom of the page you referenced:

If you’re the administrator of a site we’ve identified with this warning message, please visit the instructions found in our Webmaster Help Center to resolve the problem. Note that in some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

What were the results?

It might help to know a little about why you might want the site moved to a WordPress platform. Do you just want to add a blog page to your current site?

I’ve never tried it, but as far as I know you can insert any html into a text widget. It’s pretty all-purpose. Try it out and see if it works!

Could it be that the other blogger merely deleted the comment spam from his blog before you clicked over to it? Then you would have gotten the spam comments via email when they were posted, but when you went to the site, they had already been deleted.

I’m not sure what you mean by, “I also passed spam through his blog from my site.”

Do you have the Akismet plugin installed? Does your friend have it on his blog? Akismet is by far the best way of dealing with comment spam; I can’t imagine having a WP blog without it.

It’s essentially a 2-step process:

1. Upload the icon image(s) to your media library.
2. Add a “Text” widget to your sidebar and insert code similar to the following:

<a href="https://twitter.com/bledsoe"><img src="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tweeter_48x48.png" /></a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lancebledsoe"><img src="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/facebook_48.png" /></a>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"><img src="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/email_48x48.png" /></a>
<a href="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/feed/"><img src="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/rss_48x481.png" /></a>

Then just change the URLs so that they point to your icons and links. As you can see, I have four icons in my sidebar (twitter, facebook, email, and rss).

(Take a look at https://www.lancebledsoe.com , the Data Junkie and Tech Geek pages.)

I use the Thesis custom theme, which has this functionality, though it makes use of WP Categories rather than Tags. Say you have a Category called “Album Reviews” and every time you write a post that’s an album review, you assign the post in the Album Review category. Thesis allows you to create a page called “Album Reviews” which contains all of the posts in that category, with just a few clicks (no code changes needed).

There may be other themes which provide similar functionality as well.

If you just want to edit your sidebar.php file, go to Appearance->Editor and select sidebar.php and scroll down almost to the end of the file. Look for a line that looks like

<li><a href="https://www.ads-software.com/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>

or something similar for the “Entries RSS” and “Comments RSS” lines.

If you just add a <!-- before the <li> and a --> after the </li>, it will comment out the lines. You can also delete them if you like.

Note that some themes (and maybe some plugins?) provide nicer/easier ways to customize your sidebar(s).

Have you tried logging in to your gravatar.com account, deleting (one of) the offending email addresses, then adding them back?

Hi,

Not sure I understand your question. Note that meta-tags are different from “tags.” Meta-tags are words or phrases you add to the head section of an html page to provide info about the site to search engines. Tags, as used in wordpress blogs, are descriptive words that you add to your posts as a way of describing the content of the post.

For the Widget labeled “Tag Cloud,” when I add that widget to my sidebar, there’s nothing else (other than an optional title) to add to customize the widget; the tag cloud itself (which is just a way of displaying all of the tags that I have on all my posts) is created automatically and shows up in the sidebar on my site.

If your blog is new, and you have added meta-tags but haven’t added any tags to your posts, you’re not going to see any tags in your tag cloud.