Craig Hesser

P.S. When I reactivated the other plugins, the dots are still on their proper locations (without the hover function).

I am using the largest size embeded map in the latest version of Twenty Twelve (WP version 4.4.2) and the dots are definitely misplaced.

I deactivated all plugins except “Visitor Maps and Who’s Online” and the “Visitor Maps Geolocation Addon”, and the dots are still wrongly located.

With the plugins still deactivated, I cancelled all the check boxes in the Visitor Maps and Who’s Online options except “Enable geolocation” and “Enable visitor map on Visitor Map shortcode page” – The dots are now correctly placed, but I do not get the popup that shows the location.

When I activate “Enable hover labels for location pins on visitor map page”, the dots are misplaced. The same is true when I also activate “Disable text on geolocation maps (missing map background fix)”.

That should give you a place to start looking for solutions.

I used the Visitor Maps for many years in the past, and I seem to remember that there was a software fix that could be used, if it was felt to be important enough. Does this still exist, and does it still function?

Thew website is here: https://inrec.ch/blog/

Stephen, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!!

I had nothing in the second box, but I had the full path in the – “Store uploads in this folder” box. I changed that to the recommended setting “/wp-content/uploads” and the problem is resolved.

The interesting part is that after I made the change and saved it, those two fields are no longer visible!

I have seen this problem before, particularly when there are version updates to or new installs of the older WP themes – 2010, 2011, 2012. I tried a new WP 4.3.1 install, I tried a new theme install (delete the old theme that was automatically updated and install it a second time clean from WP), nothing made any difference prior to your change.

It MAY be that not checking the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” box would make a difference. But I am not willing to experiment at this point, I have lost too much time already. This is a 2010-vintage website that I am rebuilding completely.

Link: https://italyall.com/ (but you can’t get into the admin area.)

No, does not seem to be that old problem.

I agree with Joe E above – it appears that the fix-duplicates.php and maybe some other files are missing in the top level of the plugin file – where the four directories are now all alone.

Hello,

Just tried to replace the earlier version with the new one – I tried first with the WP install upgrade – no success “File does not exist”.
Then deleted the file with my FTP. WP acknowledged that there was no plugin. Then tried with a new plugin install and got the following report:

Installing Plugin: Fix Duplicates 1.0.2

Downloading install package from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/fix-duplicates.1.0.2.zip…

Unpacking the package…

Installing the plugin…

The package could not be installed. No valid plugins were found.

Plugin install failed.

Return to Plugin Installer

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I used to see this when there was an extra file level in the plugin (some years ago):

plugin.zip –> plugin –> plugin –> then the normal plugin files

I have not tried to check this yet, but will shortly.

https://trakehnertube.com/

Sorry, I forgot one thing. I also tried creating the file ../2015/01/ myself and that does not work either.

I just discovered that the plugins that I uploaded are present in the plugin directory, but WP 4.1 does not recognise them on the dashboard plugin list.

I have the same problem uploading plugin updates on a number of sites upgraded to 4.1 from 3.x. I changed the permissions to 777 all the way back to html_public and the problem was still there. It does not seem to be a permissions problem, regardless what the error notice says.

Everything works normally with plugins loaded directly from www.ads-software.com, but not with zipped plugins uploaded from my hard disk.

I went around the problem by extracting the zip file on my hard disk and uploading the plugin directly with FTP, but that can be a lot of unnecessary work.

One site example: https://tenuta.info/

For anyone who uses the antispam plugin (see @soybean above), when I updated a WP version, I started getting the registrations again. All I did to solve that was to reinstall the plugin, and that was the end of them.

@mc_dominic – sorry, believe it or not, I did not see that this was directed at MailChimp’s wordpress plugin users. I guess I was too busy trying to find a solution.

In any case, your solution for Scentedsoybean at https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-stop-spam-registrations-on-your-wordpress-membership-site/ was just what the doctor ordered! Since I installed it, there have been no more spam registrations! Wunderbar!!

The latest development – I found an unexpected “register” button hidden away in the theme header – I took that out but that did not stop the flood.

Then I used the new ithemes security plugin (used to be “better WP security”) to change the access rights. The latest version does not have the registration link change like the older ones but I changed the admin user name and password and hoped that would help.

Surprise! That didn’t work either!

I am stumped, except I may install an older version of the BWPS plugin where I can change the access to the registration entrance.

Same link as before: https://ilianasblog.com/

Note: if you look at the site in detail, there are two WP instances functioning – one on the home directory and a second one on a subdirectory. The one on the subdirectory does not have a problem (this is an upsell area), but the one in the base directory does…

Craig

Thanks for the comments above. The Wang plugin was my first effort to stop the stream of subscribers without any subscription plugin at all. I just took down the Wang and installed the “Subscribe To “Double-Opt-In” Comments” but I realise now that that is also not going to cure the problem since it is not generated through any plugin.

What I also did was to change the settings in the Discussion Settings to check the box “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” to see if that will stop the flood. That had always seemed counter-productive to me in the past, but maybe that is my answer.

I suspect however that I will have to go to Better WP Security (but with the new name) to block out these people.

In one respect I am lucky – I’m only getting 3-5 spam signups per day (so far).

Thanks again for the comments and I will keep you posted.

Craig

BTW – there are no comments, only signups with a WordPress mail announcing their signup (and they show up in the Users list as subscribers).

I have a similar problem – I am working with WP 3.9 but the problem does not seem to be version-related. I have about 2-5 new subscribers every day – mostly from Russia – and this is even though the box “Anyone can register” is NOT checked. I suspect that this is a security item, but I would like to clear it without any of the bulky security systems.

I have a number of blogs, but only this one is receiving these spam subscriptions.

Any help would be appreciated.
https://www.ilianasblog.com

Thanks – I can confirm the fix also – I have one post and one page (still no time to finish this up) but I tried the fix and it works, click on and the warnings come, click off and they disappear (in both cases after a page reload).

Status Report: I scrapped everything and started from scratch = new WP installation, new (obviously) Decode install. I have been too busy with other things to put some pages in, but up to now, no problems. We will see…

Status Report.
I completely removed the theme and re-installed with a fresh download. Same problem. Looks like a problem with the installation, will look at decode on another site where there is a new WP install, and also make everything on this site new. Frustrating! Luckily, there is very little work to date here.