Lance Howell

Have you checked the Anyone Can Register box in the Settings–>General menu in your admin dashboard?

I would do a security audit with iThemes Security or another site like Securi to make sure no other vulnerabilities are hidden on your site. I would then take a look at Hardening WordPress in the Codex to make sure your .htacces file and website permissions are set optimally. Hardening WordPress

I would also check with the hosting provider to make sure they didn’t do a backup. Some hosts do backups for you sometimes. But take this as a learning lesson to perform backups before something like this happens. Once it does there is nothing you can really do unless you take some prevention steps before it happens.

try going into the menus section. Create a menu that you want and setting it as the Primary Menu Location. Then the menu should appear. If you do not want a menu at all then Create a new menu with a name that you want such as “BlankMenu”. And just save it and let that be your Primary Menu. WordPress usually just puts a list of pages as a default menu if you do not specify a menu to use. I hope that helps.

you can probably get the wpconfig.php file back by logging into your Control panel and in the File Manager there should be a .trash folder in the sidebar. The file is probably in there. That file should also give you you information on your database.

Here are a few suggestions to allow your web team to add news items to the news section or a news widget by using a shortcode. Such for WP News and Scrolling, SimpleNews, and News Announcement Scroll.

The way I back up my WordPress site both to transfer for local development and for archival purposes as a backup in case I need to restore it is by using a Backup plug-in. I use Duplicator. It is pretty reliable and can backup the site along with the database into a file. Once backed up you can download either one or both into a zip file.

There are others such as Back up Buddy, and UpDraft Plus. Just such for “Backup” or “Clone” in the plug-in directory.

But Duplicator is very simple to use. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help.

i use Desktop Server from serverpress.com. they have an easy to install version of a local development environment. It is based on XAMPP. They install all of the pieces of XAMPP and get you up and running. I use it on Windows 10. I have had no problems. And it seems to stay up-to-date. They have a free version and a paid version. The free version is great for a small number of sites.

that is a common error within wordPress. If a plug-in causes an issue you will get a White Screen. But it is an easy fix by just disabling it if you have access to the C-Panel just go into your Plug-in directory in the file manager and change the directory of the offending plugin and see if you can get in after that.

what theme are you using? Are you talking about the Page title such as “Your Blog Page” with all of your posts on your page or are you talking about when you read the post the headings of each post such as “This is my First Post”.

how are you accessing the website? are you able to access other files from outside of the network. You may want to check firewall settings to make sure it isn’t blocking port 80 or 8080 (your web server) If you can provide additional information maybe i can help you. I do not have any experience running WordPress on QNap, but I will be happy to try to help.

WordPress is an excellent solution for your club website. You can use basic roles out of the box, but I would use something like Buddypress to have more role administration to your site after you get the basic design underway. And if you need more advance features you can search for membership sites in the plug-in directory. I hope that helps.

There are also other plug-ins to add achievements and keeps track of that information that you would have to search for, but it can be done.

in c-panel go to File Manager, and you should be taken to a screen that looks like a Windows Explorer window with all of your web files. Go into wp-content and there should be a plug-in directory. That is where the folder for the facebook plug-in should be. You can rename that plug-in to something like “like-box-old” and that should allow you to log in to the website to make changes or to try a new plug-in or reinstall the plug-in. I hope that helps.