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Thank you for clarifying. I’ve upgraded my rating from 1-star to 3.

I was in shock that ads were appearing on the mobile version of my site, without my consent! This is crazy. I don’t always read the change log for each new release. So seeing the ads was a shocking surprise. I thought my site had been hacked.

I think the idea is fine, but I strongly suggest that you disable this feature by default. Otherwise, unsuspecting individuals like myself may see ads on their sites and freak out like I did.

Thanks again for your help, Clayton. Very much appreciated.

1)
When I browse to /wp/wp-login.php , I am shown the WordPress login page. Not sure if it matters or not, but I’ll mention it. The password field is auto-populated when I visit the page, but When I try to log in by simply clicking on the login button, I get the error message that the password field was empty — which it’s not! It’s full of dots (hidden characters). When I click on the username field, and the username pops down, I click on it, nothing seemingly happens, but when I click on the login button after that, the system goes to log me in, but I get the same HTTP 500 error page again. I’m using the latest Chrome browser. Out of curiosity, I also tried in FireFox, just to see what would happen. The password problem doesn’t happen, but I do end up with a blank page.

Note that with both browsers, I am redirected to this page upon successfully logging in:
https://islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp%2Fwp-admin%2F

And it’s on this page that I get the HTTP 500 error in Chrome.

2) I did try disabling all of the plugins. Since I don’t have access to the Dashboard, I followed some instructions to modify the wp_options table in the database directly, setting the value in the ‘active_plugins’ field to disable all plugins. This lead to some error_log errors and the homepage no longer loading properly. The error_log had the following:

[05-Jan-2017 17:48:43 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error:  require() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '/home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-includes/load.php' (include_path='.:/opt/php53/lib/php') in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-settings.php on line 19
[06-Jan-2017 00:12:32 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function putRevSlider() in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-content/themes/bluediamond-v1_03/page.php on line 19
[06-Jan-2017 03:10:10 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function putRevSlider() in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-content/themes/bluediamond-v1_03/page.php on line 19
[06-Jan-2017 16:46:01 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function putRevSlider() in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-content/themes/bluediamond-v1_03/page.php on line 19

And…

[04-Jan-2017 02:51:14 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function is_plugin_active() in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/includes/class-compatibility-plugins.php on line 116
[04-Jan-2017 02:53:14 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare register_setting() (previously declared in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-includes/option.php:1871) in /home3/REMOVED/public_html/_websites/islandlifefinancial.com/wp/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1795

3) I also tried renaming my current theme directory name. When I do this, the homepage no longer loads, and I get a blank page with this error message:

The theme directory “bluediamond-v1_03” does not exist.

4)
As for the .htaccess contents, I don’t believe this is the problem. It seems unlikely that the upgrade process would change the .htacess file, and the admin dashboard was working fine before I started the upgrade. Also, I checked the modified timestamp, and the .htacess file was last changed in 2015. If you think it’s important, I can post the contents. Let me know.

5)
My shared hosting provider is Hostgator. I’m not entirely sure where to look for the server logs you’re referring to. In the cpanel there’s a “Logs” section. In that section, I clicked on the “Error Log” icon. I didn’t see anything relevent to my WordPress site in there. There’s also a Raw Access Log icon. Not sure about that one. Where should I be looking?

Thank you!

Thanks for the tip. I have followed the instructions you linked to (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update). When I reach Step 2 of the manual upgrade (accessing the admin Dashboard), I get the same error: HTTP ERROR 500

Any other suggestions?

Let me see…

Using the latest version of your plugin and WordPress.

I’m using a large number of other plugins. These are the active ones:
Askimet
All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
Broken Link Checker
CSS & JavaScript Toolbox
Events Manager
Flexible Map
Floating Social Media Links
Google Analytics by MonsterInsights
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
Google Author Link
Google XML Sitemaps
NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
OH Add Script Header Footer
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
PHP Text Widget
Raw HTML
Revolution Slider (Share on buzzgfx.com)
Shortcodes Ultimate
Simple Share Buttons Adder
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
Ultimate TinyMCE
Visual Form Builder
W3 Total Cache
Widgets on Pages
Yoast SEO

Damn, I should probably remove some of these…

That fixed the time problem! I guess I never set the timezone before and it was set to UTC+0, so that explains it! Thank you!!

Now, is there any way to strip out the HTML tags for the description in Google calendar?

I’m seeing the same behavior. My site is configured to show the share buttons on all pages and posts, but it only shows up on some.

e.g.
https://islandlifefinancial.com/mortgage-pension-retirement-planning/
https://islandlifefinancial.com/rrsp-tfsa-riff-eligible-investments-for-your-retirement/current-investments/

Also, on my blog page (articles), the share buttons appear at the top instead of the bottom of the page (as they are configured to do):
https://islandlifefinancial.com/articles/

Using HTML in the description does not appear to make any difference.

That said, I have discovered something that should help to track down the problem. The time that is being used in the Google calendar entry is exactly 7 hours early. So, if I set the event for 6:30pm, the Google calendar entry tries to set it for 11:30am; 7:30pm becomes 12:30pm, etc.

So, is this a timezone or server problem? What do you think?

And WordPress Version 4.4.2

Version 5.6.2

I disabled all plugins except the Events Manager plugin, and tested with the Twenty-Fifteen, Twenty-Fourteen, and Twenty-Thirteen themes. I still get the same results each time.

Doy! How did I miss that? Thanks!

Wrong plugin! Oops!

Thanks for the suggestions/tips so far. Please keep them coming…

I need all the help I can get!

Thanks for the suggestion. Apparently the theme developer is not in business anymore. I purchased the theme from ThemeForest, but it’s not available anymore, and the support page for the theme that I used before is no longer there.

Any other ideas?

Well, here’s the thing…
I don’t see this warning message when I browse ANY legit sites. I’ve only ever come across it a couple of times, and they were on sketchy sites that I wouldn’t trust ever. So, if the activity is so legitimate, why are there no sites out there where I see this?

Also, this is a new development with the plugin. I’ve been using this plugin for several months and have never encountered this problem before. Now I’m seeing it. I think it’s just been in the last two versions. Why the change? What’s it needed for?