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Tarski’s site is back online.

Simple fix – check to see that you are running the latest version of Tarski (v 2.1.3). if not, upgrade.

The problem seems to have been caused because when you access a site admin page, it queries to see if a new version of Tarski is available. Normally that causes no problem. However, his site was down due to an unrelated issue, so it couldn’t connect with the server; hence the query didn’t time out and the page wouldn’t load.

My site is working fine now… Hope this helps you.

Tarski’s site is back online.

Simple fix – check to see that you are running the latest version of Tarski (v 2.1.3). if not, upgrade.

The problem seems to have been caused because when you access a site admin page, it queries to see if a new version of Tarski is available. Normally that causes no problem. However, his site was down due to an unrelated issue, so it couldn’t connect with the server; hence the query didn’t time out and the page wouldn’t load.

My site is working fine now… Hope this helps you.

Tarski site https://tarskitheme.com
is back up!

They use Tarski as the template for the theme’s site as well, so I suspect that they have fallen victim as well. The silver lining there is that they are probably frantically working on solving the issue.

I suspect it is a hacker-related event, because I’ve made no changes to WP or my theme for some time prior to this problem. Everything was working fine until a couple of days ago.

There had been buzz about a security vulnerability in WordPress that was supposedely fixed in WP 2.5.1, however on the upgrade installation instructions there was also mention of a new parameter SECRET_KEY to manually add in to wp_config.php

I haven’t pinned down the problem yet, but it does seem to be related to the theme. If you switch themes temporarily, you should see the site admin problems vanish. I’m currently checking my WP files with particular focus on the theme directory.

You might also want to check and see if any new users have been added to your site in the last few days. (cf. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/182823
for more info on that.)

I’m not sure what my site is really doing in the background while it’s loading the site admin pages so excruciatingly slowly.

I haven’t resolved the issue yet. I can only get into the full site admin intermittently, and then only if I am willing to wait several minutes for the page to load.

Tarski’s whole site is down, and I’ve noticed a few others that use the theme are down right now as well.

The person who writes & manages Tarski is fairly adept and even does coding for WordPress itself. He is usually very quick to respond to issues & questions on his forum, so I would imagine that he is working on the problem right now.

I’ll let you know if I figure any more out with my site.

I am using Tarski as well and had the exact same problem.
It began the day before yesterday. In addition to not being able to properly access the site admin area, it took an incredibly long time to load any pages within the admin areas.

I’m not sure if it’s related, but on June 13th I had a user register with the following information:

jacob73kolb
[email protected]

This appeared to be a spam-type registration, and it was immediately thereafter that the problem occurred.

Other websites have reported spam registration from this same user:
https://cubelodyte.com/
https://retno.sekarasri.com/archives/63/?user=jacob73kolp

If you discover the same user, I’d suggest you delete their user account on your blog and report them to Google at:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_spoofing

There may be a weakness in Tarski that has just been discovered & exploited. I haven’t found any info to confirm this as yet, but Tarski’s forum is down too.

What theme are you using?