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@jameshoty

There is a margin-top: 49px; being applied to your <header>

It appears it is being applied as an inline style which means it ‘could’ be in the template file itself, unless you have some level of style control for that element as part of your theme.

<header class="fl-page-header fl-page-header-primary fl-page-nav-right fl-page-nav-toggle-icon fl-page-nav-toggle-visible-mobile" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPHeader" role="banner" style="margin-top: 49px;">

@sdfw7 I can pretty much guarantee you need to clean out your .htaccess file. It’s likely some malware was added to it causing this issue when clicking on your link from a search engine result.

@maxloyd I agree with Steven in regard to making sure you set up an SPF record if you continue to use SMTP.

I’ve had an extremely high success rate using other 3rd party tools like Sendgrid and Mailgun. Both of these services act as a mailserver and do not use the php mail() function. This takes the load off your website and ensures that the messages will reach your users inbox.

Both services offer free options to get started.

@allgames

No that should not count as duplicate content.

This is how it might be seen depending on your permalink structure

However, if you have a single post in multiple categories, that could cause a problem.

I found the first answer in this article to be helpful: https://www.quora.com/Is-that-bad-for-SEO-if-I-post-my-one-article-in-more-than-one-categories-of-my-blog

@nesiacweb it is possible that even though your website is sending the email that would allow you to reset your password, it may not be making it to your inbox.

The short answer

Try disabling WordFence plugin through FTP. (Wordfence is throwing up that huge message about account being blocked and all that).

The long answer

Email is tricky when being sent directly from a website server.

For example, I’ve had issues where the website is sending the emails, but my Gmail account never received it. Not in spam, not in inbox, it never made it to my account. This is due to Gmail server rejecting it because of the way the website prepared and sent it.

There are a number of reasons that this happens, but it’s not uncommon.

I’ve found this article to be useful: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-not-sending-email-issue/

My recommendation would be to disable Wordfence for now and try to log in and use the default ‘lost password’ link that will show up.

Worst case, you can try to reset your password manually through MYSQL. (you may need to request assistance for this).

I’ve found this article to be useful: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin/

@nacinla

This is unfortunate to hear. I know how frustrating this can be.

“Today I got three comments.”

You are sure these comments came from the same page/comments box that the previous ones had?

A couple things I would try.

1. Make sure WordPress, Themes, and Plugins are all up to date with the most recent releases of each.

2. Temporarily disable all comments under Settings / Discussion

3. Turn on users must be registered and logged in to comment

If you can find a way to get funding from your church to cover Akismet, it’s hands down the best solution to stop spam comments through default WordPress comments system.

@asnex

You should be OK if you have access to the files via FTP.

The most important things are

/wp-content/ and all of it’s subdirectories
&
database dump

You’ll also likely need to access the wp-config.php and .htacces files located in the root directory of your install. These can often include code specific to your installation.

Your existing hosting provider should be able to provide you with a copy of your MYSQL database as well. .

Any hosting provider that supports WordPress should be able to get your website migrated with that.

I believe the answer to this question is subjective and really depends on what the goals are.

If WordPress is going to be used to build the entire website, it would be best suited in the root directory for that specific domain name.

If WordPress is going to be used specifically for a blog section of a website, it could be in a sub directory.

If you are hosting multiple domains/websites on a single hosting plan, then it would make sense that each domain point to a sub directory that has it’s own WordPress instance.

In regard to SEO, it shouldn’t make a difference where the instance lives as long as SEO best practices are used in Permalink structure, page content, and any specific Meta (description, title, etc).

@llanaa5 can you give more insight into what your intentions are?

For example, are you wanting to go live with this WordPress website so that others can access it, or are you wanting to load it up so that only you can access it?

Downloading WordPress from www.ads-software.com will still require loading WordPress into a space/hosting environment. That can happen locally, but more likely you’ll want to get the files in this .zip to a hosting provider. Most hosting providers support techs will help unpack it and get it working if you have a domain name and hosting plan already.

You can do it two ways

1. Quick Edit while viewing the list of all your posts, there is a dropdown for Author

2. Edit Post screen, go to the top of your screen and click Screen Options.

Make sure “Author” is checked

In regard to FTP, you should be able to use the following information in FileZilla to access your server

ftp server: https://ftp.yourdomainname.com
username: your godaddy username
password: your godaddy password

That should take you to the root directory of your hosting.

Once there, you can find your way to /wp-admin/themes/ and upload the entire folder that your theme files are in.

Alternatively, as mentioned above, you should be able to upload the original .ZIP file that you downloaded from the Themes website by going to

Appearance / Themes / Add New / Upload

Click Browse, find the .zip file that was downloaded from the Theme website, and upload it.

WordPress will unzip and install it.

Try changing your permalinks settings, then changing it back.

Settings / Permalinks

Change it to anything else, and update

Then change it back to Post Name and update

Then try to access your pages again

Here is an extensive look at creating CSS buttons, there are also ‘CSS button generators’ available online.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/18/designing-css-buttons-techniques-and-resources/

I think it would be easiest to just use an image and link it.

If you are on PC, you can use Ctrl + F5 in most browsers to clear the cache on the page that you are viewing.

Where are you trying to add the image on your home page?

I do not see anything stretched to full size as you mentioned.