Matt

Hi Rob,

Actually, I forgot to post here that I resolved the issue myself. Just had to backtrack a little. So win-win for both of us: I’m still using your plugin and you don’t have to help me anymore! haha

Thanks for the response!
Matt

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas about this?

Hey,

I’m jealous! lol That was easy for you. Unfortunately, I’m kind of on my own. We use Media Temple, which is more self-managed and I’ve been through this a couple times with them already and they offer some suggestions but don’t really offer to give me the full scan and assistance treatment.

Do let me know if there are any files from your Dreamhost list that need to be removed in maybe Akismet or another plugin that could give me some ideas as to where I might find mine.

Thanks!
Matt

Hey Alex,

All good questions I don’t know the answer to. ?? I haven’t found any suspicious looking files yet either, but since I did find one of those database entries, it gave me a little hope that I was on the right path. But yes, the article could be dated since it was from 2010, I think.

I haven’t gotten back to that site yet (other sites to work on too), but if I find anymore I’ll happily share.

Thanks!

Hey Alex,

Looks like the only one we really have in common is Akismet. I was using Platinum SEO Pack, but I disabled it with the idea of upgrading to WordPress SEO by Yoast soon (started changing all my sites to that this past spring).

I came across this article about the Pharma Hack and it seems to be something I had, having found one of the database mods. I’m still looking for the file mods:
https://www.pearsonified.com/2010/04/wordpress-pharma-hack.php

Also plan on adding some of these as well (in addition to what songdogtech recommended above): https://www.wptavern.com/top-5-wordpress-security-tips-you-most-likely-dont-follow

If you figure out a solution, let me know. I’ll do the same. Thanks!

I’m having this same problem with one of my sites right now as well. I’m investigating the plugins I have installed to see if one of those have been compromised. Do you have a list of plugins you’re using? I’d like to compare and try and narrow it down.

Sounds good, thanks! ??

Nevermind, I got it ??

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your help. It turned out I needed more flexibility with the content being used in the pages I was setting up, so I just went with custom fields and customized an area of how I use WordPress pages instead of the plugin.

Know that I do use Connections for another client and it works great. But I won’t be able to use it for this application.

Thanks again for your help, and great plugin! ??
Matt

Hi Steven,

Sorry, I mistyped that. I just wrote that path name from memory. The folders were created correctly during the installation, so the path name is fine. Permissions at 755 (current), 767, and 777 also do not work.

Any other thoughts? Thanks!

Hey guys,

I’m actually having this same problem. The only difference (and reason why the solution here doesn’t work) is that my get_post_meta() is located inside a loop. Both get_the_ID() and $post->ID do not work in either case. Everything was working prior to upgrading to 3.4. The template that contains this code is very custom to build out a list of available classes and course topics. Here’s a sample, hopefully it’s enough to try and help me:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

    	             $ClassroomDates = get_post_meta($post->ID, "classroom_date", false); 

    		         foreach($ClassroomDates as $individual_classroom_date) {

    		             $first_date = substr($individual_classroom_date, 0, 10);

    		             echo "<tr>";

    			             echo "<td>CLASSROOM</td><td>"; ?>

    			             <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

    			         <?php
    			             echo "</td>";

    		                 echo '<td>'.$first_date.'</td>';

    		                 echo '<td>';

    		                 echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "duration", true);

    		                 echo '</td>';

    		                 echo '<td class="price-cell">'; ?>

    		                 <?php echo '$'; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', true); ?>

    		                 <?php 

    		                 echo '</td><td>';

    		                echo '<form class="foxycart" action="https://envision.foxycart.com/cart" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">

<input type="hidden" name="name" value="'; ?>

                            <?php the_title(); echo " - $individual_classroom_date - Classroom"; ?>

                            <?php echo '" />
<input type="hidden" name="price" value="'; ?>

                            <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', true); ?>

                            <?php echo '" />

<input type="submit" value="Register" class="submit" />
</form>';

    	                 echo "</td></tr>";
    	             }

If you can help me shed any light on this, that would be great. It’s for a client that needs it working, thank you!