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I think it is because the new version of WordPress now thinks characters are words. So, if your theme is/was set to truncate the post summary at 600 characters it is now showing 600 words. I had this problem with my site and I went and looked for the following in my theme:

php truncate_post(100);

The original coding was 600 and I changed that to 100 and now everything works.

You’ll have to search your theme coding for the exact files containing the code.

Howdy,

I had the same problem. Chameleon uses special coding to truncate the text and it is based on the number of characters. The new version of WordPress apparently considers the number of characters to be the number of words. So, if Chameleon is set for 280 characters, it is now rendered as 280 words.

Do you know how to change the theme code?

Go to your Chameleon theme files or use the editor function in WordPress:

1. includes/featured.php line 85, I changed 280 to 70
2. includes/entry.php line 24, I changed 600 to 100

That worked for me.

I know the vulnerability may have been “fixed”, however, I have had two sites affected by this vulnerability. In the plugin page an ad for a different forms plugin appeared. All my forms and submitted entries had vanished.

Also, a new user with administrator privileges was added. If your forms have disappeared make sure you check your users directory and look for any suspicious or unknown users.

I have not yet found any other problems.

I have had two sites hacked. In the plugin page an ad for a different forms plugin appeared. All my forms and submitted entries had vanished.

Also, a new user with administrator privileges was added. If your forms have disappeared make sure you check your users directory and look for any suspicious or unknown users.

I have not yet found any other problems.

When fixing your site also make sure you look for fake admin users and passwords. I don’t make wordpress logins with a user id of “admin” and I have been finding new “admin” users and deleting them.

So far all affected sites that I know of are on hostpapa and not all of them have older versions of wordpress.

Never mind, I found the correct options in the advanced section.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look.

I was having the same problem. I checked my ftp settings and found that png was listed as an ascii file type. I removed it from the ascii group so png files would upload as binary. I deleted then re-uploaded all my graphics and then everything worked