kbrackson

I looked at that plugin however I don’t see in the demo where you can edit the CSS for the rollover.

Are you hosted by bytehost or is it just the domain? Why is the DNS pointed to them?
I only ask because hosts and domain registars can be different. For example a site could be hosted by bluehost but the domain might be registered with GoDaddy.

So if your site is hosted on bytehost, then you are going to have to fork over the money to pay for their hosting if you want to prevent this from happening, as far as I know.

What host do you use? Are you using a free host?

I know that some use this as a bot detection service to prevent unwanted bots.

As far as your accounts stuck in limbo,
I know you can edit your database through phpmyadmin if you need to.

You can find wp_users table and manually change the password of users.

There is a full tutorial on how to do that here.

By the way, only edit your database if you are comfortable doing so.

What version of wp are you using?

Thanks for the replies…I have never used Amazon’s service before either. I have tried to contact them and they couldn’t help.

I still haven’t been able to fix this so I am very worried.

I wouldn’t reduce it to begin with, because you are making your site more vulnerable by doing so. Also it includes editing core wordpress files which may be overwritten as soon as you update your site again.

It’s hard to say without a little more details.

From your categories or from your menu? or from somewhere else?

There are posts, pages, and categories in wordpress.

Categories= categories posts might live(e.g. all posts about “surfing” might live in a “surf” category)
Posts= can vary, but in general on a blog might be daily/weekly/monthly like “Hello world!” is a post
Pages= also can vary, might be “about us” or “privacy policy”

If you want to delete a category, you would go in through the admin area in wordpress, and you would click Posts–>Categories and there should be a list of categories there for you to edit. Or click posts–> and delete posts

If you want to delete the pages, click Pages in wordpress admin

If you don’t want to delete the pages, but you want to delete them from your menu, you could go to appearance–>menus and remove it from the menu you are trying to edit.

Have you tried using (s)ftp to re-upload the theme functions to your theme folder?

I would try to upload functions.php (the new one or the last one that worked) into /wp-content/themes/restored316-darling/functions.php

or use filezilla to access theme functions.php and edit it there?

I am a super user but I don’t have a login to file manager, they gave me an SSH key, and wordpress had already been installed.

I found wordpress and the files in var/www/html/ (not under ec-2 user)

I got into the theme directory but when I tried to rename the folder or even just edit the file with the text editor in the terminal I am using, it says permission denied.

How is that even possible that I cannot write over a file I was able to edit via wp-admin? The wp content folder has 775 permissions.

Thank you!
but
I don’t have access to file manager other than command line.

Would you know commands that will get me to a standard install of wp on an amazon instance?

Fixed this issue by replacing my htaccess with the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Oh,and the server is godaddy,subdirectory setup,and the error is a 500 Internal Server Error