Claverhouse

Hi

At the time, I was using Firefox ( and other browsers ) on Mint Linux, on a desktop PC. It seemed to be constant over the months.

Thank you very much for replying, and I wish you well with your plugins.

Best wishes.

Thanks. I was using Yoast’s plugin for Google Analytics, and although going to the Google webpage showed all the information was being recorded, in my site I just had this error. Despite accepting the UA identifier in the plugin page.

At first I thought it was due to the original javascript Google supplied from long ago still being in the footer, and thus double-reporting, but I eliminated that code, and the site continued to report data to Google whilst still giving the GDatainsufficientPermissionsUser error on the site…

Yours was the only practical solution on the internet.

Inside the message, usually in the overt link created on the name of the poster, is an url leading to a pretend site of the spamming outfit. The more links they spread about the the web the greater their karma.

The words they spew are meaningless — even more so than the majority of words on the internet, whether on unlovely presidential candidates or other vapid celebrities, or the collected thoughts of deranged drug addicts or libertarians — it’s the scattering of links that satisfies their dreadful trade.

Thing is, although there are much wicker people, I can’t see one redeeming thing in spammers, nor any possible value created: it’s like going around scattering small shreds of plastic along a countryside at random.

Look up 301 www htaccess redirects and alter your .htaccess file ( if doing so via ftp make sure all files are not hidden, as the ‘.’ makes a file invisible ) to direct all https://~~ to https://www/~~.

If you had two sites one with and one without www, both with the same content, that would hurt SEO since one might be considered a duplicate: having one site with either, does not; provided only one way is the entry as above.

Well, not being a coder, I can’t help; but it definitely seems worthwhile. Very long-term purpose is an admirable goal — yet it conflicts with frequent ( even yearly in this case ) updates, except for sudden ultra-security ones, and certainly with those useless UI changes: boring stability is the key: I’m sure the Vatican Archives aren’t changed much on designers’ whims, and they seem the most successful long-term project.

So, well done. Forks are an essential part of Open Source ( and only Open Source can provide such a universal, safe and long-lasting tool — providing, as said, it is locked down from the start to a Long-Term Support version ).

Wouldn’t it be easier to put in the image as large as it gets, but then indent the text on either side so the image overlaps ?

The suggestion is a good one. People who’ve got accustomed to a product through long use generally don’t consider those who use it infrequently or who are completely new. Most people don’t immediately grasp everything, nor wish to read a help manual for each element.

Whilst those with a longer, but scarcely intense, experience just get used to odd elements without ever considering exploring them. I once asked here how to go back to a full display on the Plugins page, rather than having it split up into many pages. A few weeks later, by luck, I found this could be set by ‘Screen Options’, which before and since, I had no need to explore.

Just a thought: if you can get someone to download the database of the blog, you could install WordPress 2.5.1 elsewhere on your own hosting ( buying a domain name ), import the database to the new install; then update it and run the blog according to your own control…

Or even, were you willing to accept the lack of control of using a hosting platform, you might make an export file on the old blog and import it into a new wordpress.com blog as mentioned here.

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-import-wordpress-database-from-personal-host-to-this-wordpresscom-accoun?replies=11

You may be able to find the version number from your browser for any WP site; there are various methods — but as an unmodified WP site holds the information in the META, the simple way is to load the site then chose /tools/Page Info in Firefox ( other browsers will have something similar ). I just did it for my site and the first information was WordPress 3.2.1.

Use this to find out which hosting company serves your site:

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/

Or this one:

https://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph

Someone at the host may be able to help, if you can prove ownership — although the last is not always necessary with gullible companies.

Add Edit: the domain extension ( tld ) has no difference in any way: they merely exist to get more money for namesellers for selling the same name a dozen ways.

[ FTP stuff removed as irrelevant following above posts ]

if you are paying for hosting, consider asking your host to reset the WP admin password for you: it would be trivial for them as a free service to keep a customer.

I don’t get that ‘linked to another site’ bit. Who is paying for the hosting ? Or paying for the domain ? If all fails and you own the domain you can install a new blog elsewhere, copy the posts if not too many, then repoint the domain to the new host and for all purposes it will be the same blog; whilst the old files for the original site wither on the vine.

As for the age of the install, if it worked then it will work now; code may be comparatively less efficient than later code, but it doesn’t degrade. And if it hasn’t been hacked, all’s well.

You might put the url into https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ to make sure it hasn’t been hacked.

@esmi

>You can add the same image to a thousand different Posts if you upload it to the Media Library.<

Perhaps; then again the links are stored in the database along with any meta data ( with the images in /includes ) swelling the database and giving more chance of Things That Go Wrong With Databases. Slimmer databases are happier databases.

Should a WordPress go west, then obviously the post and links therein will be useless either way; yet reconstruction might be easier if the images were not stored in the install itself. And that they are handily already up there in their own little directory.

The Old Ways are the safest.

Your WordPress site will be more efficient if you ftp images and files to directories on the server external to the WP installation.

Then you can use <img> to add the same image a thousand times.

<center> is pretty nice too.

That’s a very pretty blog, in a parchmenty way: as a University blog they probably won’t mind telling you their secrets, if they bother to reply.

The only trouble is I can’t see any menu navigation at all on any part of the page, not even next/previous; although the standard Archives List ( maybe that’s what you mean ) indicates posts several years back: the page finishes for me at July 4.

However the fact that the site is written in .asp ( one of Microsoft’s odd projects ) and not php makes me question whether it has much to do with WordPress.

Not that it matters, but I like this navi plugin by Olly Benson.

If you have the same content available in several sites, search engines may regard this as Duplicated, and therefore will hurt any of your sites’ ranking in SEO, if that matters.

https://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical

Other than that there is no harm, except confusion among readers as to which is the primary site.

Personally in that situation I would, say, select sureshjonna.in as the major site and redirect the other domains to that site on my host’s panel ( if they offer this ) — in the case of the ~~~.wordpress.com it may be possible to redirect it from WordPress.com’s admin panel for all I know — or use 301 redirects in .htaccess.

It is fine to have any number of domains pointing to the same site; but not ideal to maintain the same site mirrored among many domains.
( Although no-one can stop you. )

No particular point either.

If — assuming you are referring to a website hosted on paid hosting using www.ads-software.com — you own the domain name ( e.g. have rented it from a registrar ) then you can complain they are using your domain name. If they just got the domain name ahead of you, they have no obligation to give it up or to ‘do anything with it’.

If — assuming you are referring to a WordPress.com blog — they got it before you the same applies.

If — and I suspect this is what you mean, you own a domain name for hosting yourself, and a WordPress.com blog shares almost the same name — I can’t imagine that WordPress.com can/would take the latter away from any person because someone else wants it. Their ( legal ) use is not determined by whether they actually exercise that use.

I’d just choose another domain name, which won’t be confused with any other.

Although some people complain about a shortage of names, in practise there are so many combinations of English ( and other ) words it can’t be difficult to create thousands of unique websites.

[ The difficulty with urls is not the www prefix, which is a red herring; but the mere useless existence of extensions which no doubt was a cool and stupid idea at the time of fewer websites , but now merely serves to enable crooked people to copy other domain names simply registering xxx.org instead of xxx.com; and to richly line the pockets of registrars for selling the same name in a dozen different extensions. ]