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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site has been hacked I think?Once you get into your site via FTP then try first reinstalling WordPress from a fresh download. This should also clean up the ‘pluggable.php’ file.
If the problem still persists, then yes, your database would the next place to look. Personally, I’d re install the database using a backup prior to the time you noticed the hack.
We’d need to know which theme you are using in order to suggest a code change. Alternatively, look for a plugin that will add widgets to your theme at the place you want to have them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: space between Nav bar and body, opacitySure, Add the following CSS to your site:
.one-column #page {
background-color: transparent !important;
}#primary {
background-color: black !important;
}Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site has been hacked I think?Yes, that’s a hack.
From one other instance I’ve seen, the hackers usually change a WordPress file rather than database content – or perhaps your have been hacked via a trojan horse WP plugin.
The best solution I know off is:
(1) Deactivate ALL of your plugins
(2) Re-install WordPress.Re-activate only those plugins you trust.
That should get rid of it. Then change your FTP password with something stronger and try to use Secure FTP (SFTP) in the future – most host support this, but contact your hosting company.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: simple WordPress installation questionMy opinion: I don’t like working with 2 separate WordPress installations because there is so much messing around things up to date, and you lose the ability to bubble articles up from one WP install to another (for example, if you want to put ‘most popular posts’ on the home page of the root website.
Even if you edit the .htaccess file, you’re going to ruin the hard-coded paths to images and other resources.
I’d bite the bullet and install in root, then run search and replace ‘/blog/’ with ‘/’ in your database (I have done this process myself and it worked well).
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Fatal error – help needed!Assuming you uploaded this with the standard WordPress plug-in install screen, then it looks like the plugin has an error.
Try another star rating plugin and see if that works for you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Help WP Expert needed!These setting are likely to be in the WordPress database on your MAMP server. MAMP does have an application installed called phpMyAdmin which will allow you browse and edit the database tables. There is a table called wp_options that contains this info.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reset home page after change to permalinksYes the website is trying to serve pages from the /wordpress/ subdirectory. It sounds like this is not what you want to happen. This setting is controlled in the General settings Admin panel. Try removing /wordpress from the end of the website URL.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to I link .com to .com/homeSimple. Use a plugin that manages “redirects” such as
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/page-links-to/In the admin area for your home page, type “/home/” into the Page Links To box.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 301 Redirects Question…Google doesn’t ‘frown’ in redirects and 302 aren’t ‘bad’. A 301 redirect simply indicates that the redirect is a permanent one, while 302 is a temporary redirect that will be removed some time in the future.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Removing /author/ postsYou could try adding the following to your robots.txt file in the root directory of your website
User-agent: *
Disallow: /author/Or look for a plugin that dies the same thing. Example:
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading WordPress via FTPThe usual login URL for a WordPress site is (in your case):
https://websiteaddy.com/wp-login.php
Does the theme work if you try installing it using the Appearance control panel in your WP Admin area?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Fast import exportHave you seen this plugin?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: AnalyticsDo you mean Google Analytics, or Google Webmasters Tools?
I can’t see anywhere that Analytics asks to authenticate the domain, but I know that Webmasters Tools does.
If you do mean Webmasters tools, the I know that Google supplies you with a <meta> tag to place inside the <head> tag of your home page. There are plugins that will do this for you. But it doesn’t always w2ork.
Google provide an alternative method of authenticating your website, which is to download a file with your Webmasters Tool code in the file name. This should be uploaded to the root director of your website using FTP of the file manager in your CPanel. It should now authenticate instantly.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: RSS ErrorYou have two “https://” at the front of your domain name. You should only have one.
Clearly the place where you type this URL is already automatically adding “https://” to the front.
So, just type the address:
feeds.feedburner.com/wpsitesdotnet
without any https:// at all.
Hope that helps.