Odai Athamneh

Hi Gail,

I fixed this problem and created a new version of the plugin, 1.0.1 – you should be getting a notice to upgrade in your WordPress dashboard.

Hey Squirrel, sorry, I forgot to reply to your other post.

I’m not clear on what your questions are though, because it looks like you edited the post a few times.

Rachel,

That wasn’t what I was trying to say. Let me give you an example of what I mean (sorry for how long it is):

Imagine you make a Twenty Ten Child Theme that is just a style.css file with some custom CSS. While building a page, WordPress asks your theme for a file called index.php – since your theme doesn’t have this file, it points WordPress to it’s parent (in this case, Twenty Ten), and WordPress uses the index.php from it.

This is the benefit of Child Themes: You can apply (mainly cosmetic) changes on top of a theme, while leaving it’s core functionality untouched.

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Now, imagine the Child Theme you’re describing: an exact copy of Twenty Ten. Whenever WordPress requests a file (like index.php), it’s always available – there’s never any need to revert back to Twenty Ten for a file, because for all intents and purposes, your theme is Twenty Ten.

But what if a security hole is found in Twenty Ten’s index.php? Automattic sends out an update fixing it, and that’s that. But since your Child Theme is just a copy of Twenty Ten, it never receives the update, and you’re running code with a known bug.

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This creates a security risk, and there are hacker programs out there that just go around looking for known bugs in WordPress sites (according to my server logs, my site gets attacked by these bots at least once a week). So, doing this will put your site at risk of being hacked (how likely it is depends on what bugs are found and how popular your site is, but the risk is there).

Since you made a database backup, I’m assuming you have access to phpMyAdmin and understand how to use it? This Codex article explains things better than I could.

What theme were you using on the old site? You could always download a new copy, or your backup of the www folder should have it. Once you restore the database and theme, I think you should be good to go.

You can probably do it, but if you can’t, feel free to keep replying in this thread. I’ll try to help you to the best of my ability.

Oh wow, you did an excellent job on that sprite! That article you linked explains things better than I did.

Hi marbadik,

As a WP admin, you should already be able to see and edit other user’s profiles. What happens when you go the the “Users” page in the Dashboard? Are you able to click on other users?

Hi steveashton,

Cross-domain logins are actually disabled on purpose, for security reasons. It would be very easy for a malicious website to take advantage of cross-domain logins to gain unauthorized access to your site, so it’s generally considered a no-no.

That said, I did find a plugin that might help (although again, cross-domain logins are a bad idea): SSO Cross Cookie.

As for your need of a freelancer, I’m not sure if we’re allowed to discuss that here, but I am one. E-mail me at [email protected] and we can discuss what you need and if I can help you.

Hi cartu73,

I can see your website. I’m seeing what looks like a fresh WP install, with only one post, an About page, and using the Twenty Thirteen theme. Was your site a fresh install, or was there content that’s missing now?

EDIT: I can also see your favicon.

Ah, that’s interesting. I didn’t know the GPL could apply to images, but reading through it, I don’t see why not.

The Twenty Thirteen theme is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, which allows you a great degree of freedom in what you do with the code. Creating a political campaign website would definitely be allowed.

As for the header images, I was unable to find legal information on them, although I would assume they’re licensed under the Creative Commons. You would probably be okay to use them for printed pamphlets being given out for free, but you might get into trouble if you tried to use the images for commercial projects.

I’m not aware of an exact copy, but The Bootstrap has a similar feel.

Hiring someone to create a custom theme will generally cost a few hundred dollars, unless you can find someone to do it cheaper as a favor.

Hi odotjdot

WordPress has this function built-in. Under the “Tools” menu, choose “Export”, which will allow you to save all the site’s posts (and other content) as a file on your computer.

Then, in the new blog, choose “Import” from the “Tools” menu, upload your content file, and you should be good to go.

Ah! The problem is that your Pinterest image is 1000 x 1000 pixels. It is being displayed, but just the tiniest upper corner, which is invisible. The following CSS re-sizes it, but you might want to find a smaller Pinterest logo (one that big will take longer to load, though since it’s at the bottom of the page, people probably won’t notice).

li.Pinterest a {
background: url('https://adaclubs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pinterest_badge_red.png') no-repeat;
background-size: 29px 30px;
text-indent: -999em;
margin-right: 0 !important;
}

A bigger problem I noticed is that the logo disappears when you move the mouse over it. I understand why, but it’s hard to explain… look at the Pinterest logo you uploaded, and the YouTube logo they’re using.

As far as I can tell, they’ve got some Javascript on the page that switches to the lower, transparent logo when you mouse over it (if you’re wondering why it’s a single image, combining multiple images into one is a popular way of speeding up page loads). Your options for fixing it are:

• Contact the original author and ask them to fix it.
• Make a similar Pinterest logo with transparent bottom.
• Accept is as good enough, for a footer link.

I see. I can think of a few things that could be wrong, although it’s tough to say without seeing the full site code.

First, try putting single quote marks around the URL path, like so:
url('https://Domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pinterest_badge_red.png')

Second, try copying-and-pasting the URL into your address bar and going there, to make sure that the image actually exists, and that you didn’t accidentally alter the URL path.

To be clear, have you seen this code work with a different image? I’m trying to figure out if the issue is with the image, or another part of the code. I don’t think you can specify things like no-repeat on the background-iamge property – if so, changing background-image to just background may fix things.