dave-p

You could look at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/toolbox

In the Header tab in Customize Theme, check hide title by CSS alongside the Hidden title item.

Then use the Images tab to add a Header Image.

There is a strange <strike /> tag and a load of closing </font> tags in the page source at the point where the strike-through starts. I suspect it’s because you appear to be copying and pasting straight from MS Office, which can put all sorts of garbage markup into your posts.

What you are talking about is custom taxonomies, I think.

Have a look at Yourls.

Looks like you might have been hacked.

Can you see what the php files referred above might do?

Have a look at https://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/ – it might help, but you will need some technical expertise.

I had the same problem with WP Events Calendar and also with FancyBox for WordPress not working. Changing JS minify settings to ‘only combine’ solves both issues and both plugins now work.

Sexy bookmarks

There is a ‘Text’ widget that you could put a link in, and add to your sidebar.

I recommend Google XML Sitemaps – not social bookmarking, but it does help the search engines to be aware of your posts.

You can code it into your sidebar – see https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags.

https://www.devlounge.net/design/aligning-images-the-right-way-using-css

Try the WordPress Exploit Scanner plugin. It might help, but you need a certain amount of technical expertise to decide whether its findings are a problem or not.

Take a look at WP-RelativeDate.

It sounds like you have installed WP in the root directory when you already have files there. If you have an existing site, the best and easiest way is to install the blog in a folder (/blog/ for example) so installation will not overwrite any existing files and there should be no file name conflicts.