joyh

Once WP SpamShield was deactivated the comments stopped going to bin.

Think I’ll have to leave it at that as I’ve run out of time to try and fix this ??

Thanks anyway, Joy

Hi Alexandre

Sorry for delay in replying – I completely lost access to my site for some unknown reason, but I’m back in there again (having deactivated a plugin).

I can’t duplicate any of the errors myself (trying from a different IP or my own IP).

The two comment plugins I’m using (to try and reduce spam) are WP SpamShield and CommentLuv.

Anyway, I’ve deactivated WP SpamShield and asked a friend whose comments consistently go to bin to try again. Let’s see what happens.

Joy

Great, thanks very much and I’ll wait for the new version and check it out then.

Happy New Year, and thanks for a great plugin.

Joy

Hi again

Just got the perfect example….

https://joyhealey.com/changing-wordpress-themes/

From 100+ posts, the only one it thinks it’s related to is the post itself ?? Which may be true, but I’d rather it was blank than showing itself.

I chose Tags and Category as the criterion for being related. Not the best probably, but I’m leaving it like that so you can see what the problem is.

Thanks, Joy

Hi,

Not quite what I;m looking for ??

It’s not a SPECIFIC post I want to exclude, I don’t want it to display as a related post the main post that is being shown.

Thanks

Hi iLen

I want it to exclude the same post that is actually showing the Related posts.

So – if there are posts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc

If post 3 is the one showing related posts, it mustn’t show post 3 itself in the posts it is displaying as Related.

Hope you can help.

Thanks, Joy

I would LOVE for you also to exclude the post itself from the related posts ??

I’ve read the other post on the same topic but those suggestions weren’t very good for me – I have 134 published posts but unless I set to Random (in which case the posts are no longer Related!) it’s surprising how many times the same post shows.

Like Phil above, I have tried many other Related Posts plugins and this is the best I’ve found so far, with this one minor glitch of showing the post itself ??

Hope you can include that in your January 1st release and get my 2015 off to a great start!

Joy

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated. (Sorry for late reply – partner got taken into hospital, so chaos has descended!)

I also have this problem. I cloned blog B from blog A and everything is fine EXCEPT that blog A has taken on blog B’s stats.

Any ideas, please?

Sorry – I’ve read what I can, but it’s just all too much for me.

When I started with WordPress I was led to believe it was simple. For some people, this may be simple, but for me – doing it part-time – it is not.

I have put HOURS into all this, it’s been a HUGE learning curve even to get this far and frankly I wish I had never started.

I am truly grateful to these forums for the help I have found here on the simple topics, but some of it is beyond me. What was supposed to be a way to earn a pleasant retirement income has turned into an absolute nightmare.

OK, thanks – I may have to go down that route, but in the meantime I’ve had more help from Hostica.

I’d made a backup with a WP plugin but couldn’t figure out what to do with it myself.

Hostica support people have recovered that for me and I can login and see that the right number of posts is there, but the blog isn’t displaying at all, and the display when logged in as administrator is workable but wrong. (The options on LHS are there, but what should be on the RHS is right at the bottom of the screen.)

I’ve done an export while I could get logged in, but the layout is all lost. So if I just ftp the theme and uploads folder from the old to the new host, will everything reappear?

I have three hosting companies. Two have been helpful. One has not!

So I am moving my sites from the unhelpful one to one of the helpful ones. (Hostgator and Hostica HAVE been helpful.)

However, even that has turned into a nightmare. I have empty blogs set up on the new hosting company and assumed I would then just ftp my files from the old company to the new, via my PC. But I gather this can’t happen, so it looks as if I may have lost those 2 sites entirely.

Hi

Thanks for all help, been a bit quiet as I’ve been implementing what I could, although some of it is “beyond me”! At the moment, all seems working again, thank goodness.

When you say “carefully check pages for hacked script”, I’m not entirely sure how to do this – it’s all jibberish to me! I saw something that I thought was suspicious, pointed it out to the Hosting company and they told me it was absolutely fine.

Thanks to both of you for the advice. I’ll work through the suggested urls. (I only do this part-time!)

To answer the other points:

1) Local copies have been fine, just on hosting.

2) Will ask hosting company about SFTP, that’s a new one on me ??

3) Linux hosting

4) I have only found problems in index.php personally, although the hosting company did the first few cleanups for me, until I got embarrassed about asking them so many times.

I have reset both ftp and WP admin passwords, and sites hacked even AFTER that. However I store them locally in Roboform. Is that secure enough? (I have several blogs so the thought of trying to remember them all is mind-boggling.)