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In further testing, I set a post to be published at 11 PM tonight (5 hours from now), uploaded from Write, and it Scheduled.

I updated it for midnight (12 AM) 6 hours from now, uploaded, and it Published. I updated it in the admin interface and it switched to scheduled.

I set it for 1 AM (7 hours from now) and uploaded and this time the admin status in the All Posts list was “missed schedule,” but “Scheduled” in the Edit post. I clicked update in Edit Post and went back to the posts list and it changed from “missed schedule” to “scheduled.”

This may be an AM/PM thing or something. Everybody knows 12 AM is midnight, right?

Apparently I didn’t disable all the plug-ins correctly. I did it again and was able to post without logging in. The culprit is OpenID.

I also tried disabling all the plug-ins, and that didn’t work either.

So I got a couple more complaints to day from long-time site users, and I see allow requests from several more regulars. I was reminded that these folks have accounts on the site and are logged in at the time that they get the spam challenge. If someone is logged in, I wouldn’t ever want them challenged.

https://www.obamaconspiracy.org

I had two reports from regular commenters today, saying they were blocked. Both of them had their email address already in the Allow list.

I use a Woo theme (Canvas), but not Woo Commerce.

I have resolved the issue in that I no longer use W3 Total Cache. I installed the WordFence plug-in (great security plug-in BTW) and since I had it installed I tried turning on its Falcon caching engine. Falcon is very aggressive in cleaning up old pages and its disk footprint is minimal.

I have in the past tried WP SuperCache and W3 Total Cache, and I have found that Falcon is the only one of those that works well for me, both in compatibility with the WP Touch (mobile theme) plug-in and in not going crazy with disk utilization.

I fetched the Cache Stats and it showed that there were 46 pages in the cache with the oldest 29 minutes. I added a comment and re-fetched the Cache Stats and it said that there were 2 pages in the cache with the oldest page at 8 seconds.

So it appears that adding a comment clears everything in the cache.

I personally like this behavior because it keeps the cache small.

I had read the documentation, but I don’t know, not being a WordPress developer, when some of those things happen. I also noted the comment that said: “If a comment is posted the whole page cache is cleared.” I take “whole page cache” to mean the entire cache. My blog gets around 5 comments per hour. Does this mean on average the whole cache gets cleared every 12 minutes?

There is an issue with the LightSpeed server, and Wordfence publishes a change to make to your .htaccess file that fixes it.

I hear ya. There were all sorts of little nasties scattered around in extra files, including an .htaccess file that made scripts in the includes/images directory executable.

Basically it is a one-page site, so I can just trash it and put the page back.

I did find the bad spot. It was an addition to functions.php in the Twenty Ten theme directory. That means the hack had to have been done after April 24, 2015, when the Twenty Ten theme was last updated.

I’ll follow up on your site hardening links. Thanks.

Disk filled up again. I give up. Deleting the plug-in.

I tried emptying the cache, but that just renamed the files to “.old”.

PS: The plug-in malware scan found two malicious files that have been sitting on my site since 2011. Hooray!