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  • Thread Starter dmkizer

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    I am using additional compression in the server. We recently moved to a virtual private server as well. I don’t know if that affected the configuration or not. Since I posted, I also upgraded the plugin once again.

    The plugin is working now (and working well). The previous update did not fix the issue, but this one did. Thank you for replying. I wish I knew exactly what was wrong. Hopefully it will not happen to anyone else, and this topic can stay closed.

    Thread Starter dmkizer

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    For me, this turned out to be a conflict with my theme: Cyberchimps iFeature Pro version 5.1.0.6. I reverted back to an older version of the theme, and that solved the problem.

    dmkizer

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    Go to this YOUR DOMAIN NAME/wp-admin/ to access your dashboard, FYI.

    Rather than a blank page, I get a page filled with random code characters. It is somewhat intermittent; it was fine after I updated, then the site was down later. I have verified on two machines and three browser types that deactivating the W3 Total Cache plugin is the correct fix for this.

    I intend to try downgrading. To export the settings, I will need to reactive the current version though, which (of course) will mean breaking the site temporarily. I will do this at some time of day when I anticipate minimum traffic.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: How to use $wpdb in plugin

    I am trying to do something that falls very much within this discussion. I am not at all literate with PHP though.
    I have two WP sites. I want to reach from one of them, into the other, and retrieve specific featured images for posts, and display them with a link to that post.

    I am using this line (with the correct info for my target database):
    $mydb = new wpdb(‘username’,’password’,’database’,’localhost’);

    What would I follow that with to retrieve and display a post thumbnail?

    I am tinkering with a line of code I found elsewhere that looks like this:

    $result = $mydb->get_results(“select * from wp_posts where ID=’1885′”);

    where ‘1885’ is a sample post ID number.

    In an ideal world, I would develop this to the point where it functions as a widget. The client could simply enter a post ID number from the external WP site, and the widget would retrieve the appropriate thumbnail, and display it as a link back to the appropriate post on the other site.

    I would like to have the option for permanent bans after a certain number of attempts, particularly if the username “Admin” is being attempted.

    On some sites I administer, I currently have the numbers set to 9999 minutes and then 9999 hours. This forces them to wait for a week to try again, and then they get banned for a little over a year. Not bad. I do this on sites that are not supposed to have non-admin users logging in in the first place.

    If we could have a special rule for the Admin user name, it would help a lot in weeding out the awful bots that assault wordpress sites continuously.

    Thread Starter dmkizer

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    Update: I worked around the issue by installing a plugin called Simple 301 Redirects. I listed every link (just under 40) and redirected to the correct post.

    Thread Starter dmkizer

    (@dmkizer)

    Update: I worked around the issue by installing a plugin called Simple 301 Redirects. I listed every link (just under 40) and redirected to the correct post.

    Thread Starter dmkizer

    (@dmkizer)

    More information: I believe that all of the posts being affected were originally created as pages. I converted them into posts using a plugin called pTypeConverter.

    Somehow, this plugin believes they are still pages rather than posts. How might I correct this?

    Thread Starter dmkizer

    (@dmkizer)

    [google-map-v3 width=”100%” height=”600″ zoom=”12″ maptype=”roadmap” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashup=”true” addmarkermashupbubble=”true” addmarkermashupbubble=”true” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”]

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