jfinnis

More flexibility over post-ordering in next version would be great. Eg: ability to order posts by popularity and/or to force sticky posts to top of tag and category pages (except latest post pages). Unless site is a news site ordering by publication date isn’t very meaningful.

Thanks for your reply. For simplicity I decided to host open.php on another domain as it is used to redirect to multiple other domains.

Thanks, but I am non-technical and do not understand how to edit this code, eg is: (blogger|picasa|blogspot|tsunami|petapolitik|photobucket|imgur|imageshack|wordpress\.com|img\.youtube|tinypic\.com|upload\.wikimedia|kkc|start-thegame) necessary just to whitelist one file (open.php) on my domain?

log code below, I changed real domains for mydomain.com, otherdomain.com

[403 GET / HEAD Request: September 17, 2014 – 1:24 pm]
Event Code: BFHS – Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer
Solution: N/A – Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden
REMOTE_ADDR: 86.160.192.206
Host Name: host86-160-192-206.range86-160.btcentralplus.com
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
HTTP_FORWARDED:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER: https://mydomain.com/test.php
REQUEST_URI: /open.php?url=https://otherdomain.com/form.html
QUERY_STRING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36

open.php works if I move it to another (non-BPS protected) domain, so if no simple solution I will go with that.

Here is reply from hostgator: “Our system scans for anything that is overtly spamlike, and marks it so that we can ensure that little to no spam comes through our system. When sending an email through a plugin in wordpress, or any other script, it is strongly suggested to use smtp instead of sendmail, as this will allow the script to send through the mail servers, instead of being sent directly from the server itself, which can cause issues later down the road.”

Thanks, it sends the email now. Do you know what is triggering the filter or should I contact hostgator?

I removed the plug-in and re-installed it. Then went through and re-configured everything back to defaults as it still remembered my settings even after being removed. Again tried to register an e-mail, nothing sent. Again sent the test emails, received all 4 almost instantly. I set up the log file and checked it, it said: “17-08-2014 10:33:19 – INFO – 28.4 MB – New email address”

I just changed the words to be used for the email. Nothing technical.

My blog is: https://selfhelpsanctum.com/ (signup from blue box at right of screen).

I just tried again, ie:
signed up with test email
browsers displays confirmation web page
signed into blog as admin
test email shown in newsletter subscribers (NOT CONFIRMED)
sent test emails from Diagnostic page
checked email – 4 test emails received (3 from blog, 1 from WordPress), sign-up confirmation e-mail not received
checked admin email – nothing received

Many thanks for your help

hostgator

With some effort I have been able to customize the theme hashi.