davejp

My hosting service resolved the problem for me as follows:

“We have disabled the offending mod security rule for the domain.”

I asked for an explanation and whether this would leave the site more open to hacking/viruses as the header.php of my theme was recently replaced by “you have been attacked by Hmei7”. I didn’t understand the reply but it was basically reassuring me while pointing me in the direction of the “Hardening WordPress” article in the Codex.

Having looked up modsecurity I found this explanation: others may find it useful:

https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2011/05/wordpress-mod-security-2/

I haven’t pursued this any further with my host. While I would like more explanation I have been very impressed with their speed of response and abiilty to provide accurate advice and resolutions on the few occasions I’ve needed support. Host is WebHosting UK.

Thanks to anyone who’s looked at this post.

Dave.

DragonFlyEye,

I did change the colour of links to prove that was the problem. But it ruins the style. Not much looks good against both dark red & white. It’s improtant to maintain the colour scheme. It’s also a design that was agreed by a committee. That means almost anything is easier than changing the design!

There are no other places where the colour scheme creates a problem.

Thanks for your suggestion anyway.

Dave.