Odai Athamneh

Hi Skeletonkeyz,

WordPress is merely software, that runs on a server. You can download the software freely from www.ads-software.com, but they have no control over what you do with it.

Someone installed WordPress onto your server, it sounds like without your permission? You may need to investigate if your server security has been compromised.

There is meta data, but you don’t need to write it yourself. Using that plugin, you can specify the meta data from the post editor, and the plugin generates the code and inserts it into the header.

Just to be clear, you’re running a blog, right? If you’re designing a WordPress theme, that’s a different subject.

Hi Ian,

This blog post explains how to manually add code to do that. Is that something you feel comfortable doing? I can walk you through it if needed.

Hi mutecht,

I looked at the source code for the page, specifically the social widgets. Usually plugins have some sort of reference to their own name in the HTML or CSS, but these widgets don’t, they may have been hand-developed for the site.

I did find the Child Theme’s CSS page though, which has info about the authors of the theme.

Hi George,

Do you mean you want to ask other website owners to link to you? I would recommend you just e-mail them and ask.

Hi BillieN,

Go into the file system for your server, in the place where you installed WordPress. Find a folder called “wp-content”, and enter it.

In there, find a folder called “plugins”. Inside of that folder, you need to find the folder that contains Advanced Page Manager, probably called “advanced-page-manager” or similar. Go ahead and delete, since I imagine you don’t want it anymore.

Try getting into your Admin area now, if the plugin was the problem that should fix it. And you probably want to report this bug to the author of the plugin, so he/she can try to fix it.

Hi Akev,

Have you the WordPress SEO by Yoast plug-in? It will allow you to set meta data from within the post editor.

Or are you asking this from the POV of a theme designer?

Hi XnMeX,

Does this article help you? https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

Hi Dmahsiri

You can do this easily using a Child Theme, no need for a plug-in! Here’s a mock-up I did in 2 minutes:

https://odai.me/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-from-2013-01-24-204113.png

Notice the black lines around your widgets. Is that the look you’re going for? If so, I’ll tell you how to do this.

Hi Ken,

What theme are you using? You may be able to edit your theme (or rather, a Child of your theme) to disable this behavior.

Hi Andy,

What’s the URL for the website? It’ll help if we can see it for ourselves.

Hi Dseg,

Did you try updating Akismet again, just to see what happens?

Oh right! My mistake.

Hi Richard,

I’m glad to help you, but could you go into more detail about the problem? And also tell me the URL of your website?

Hi Hanna,

Yes, that’s possible. Log in to your WP Dashboard. Hover your mouse over “Settings” on the menu to the left, and another menu should appear.

On that menu, click “Discussion”, and it’ll take you to a new page. Look for an option checkbox that says “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” (it’s 5th from the top).

Uncheck it, then go to the bottom of the page and hit the “Save Changes” button. Log out, then see if you can leave comments without being logged in.

You should be able to, but let me know if you have any problems.