sammymaudlin

It was active. I deactivated it in order to try other plugins that might work. It did get Andora Lightbox to work on the homepage https://voiceguymatt.com/vgm

Viewing password=

rocketj

the word “STUDIO” at the bottom. But it took some CSS to get there and this is actually an image, not text.

I would like it to only be text.

I reactivated [LBS] here https://voiceguymatt.com/vgm/gallery

Can that be just a text link?

It is that tiny image that I want to be larger.

The plugin is installed and active and working. The tiny image at the bottom of the homepage is the image that opens the gallery. It is only one image as I am using the single-image lightbox.

I hear ya!

Hi mbrsolution. I had it locked down to prevent visitors from seeing while it was messed up.

I finally solved. For anyone in a similar boat (hope not), there may have been an easier way but after almost 2 days of trying easier ways I did this:

Via phpadmin (cPanel) I searched thru the database tables and changed the prefix back to “wp_”. There is a search-and-replace function in here that works on, at least, a table by table basis. I deleted the plugin via ftp. I deleted all table columns (?) that were related to the plugin (had aio… in it). I downloaded the version of WP that the site was using (which was the most current) and replaced all the folders/files via ftp except the content folder. I then, to be overly safe, created a new user for the database and added in the missing info in the wp-config.php file. You can search for the how-to on that. Not hard.

That restored the site back to the way it was with the exception of still not allowing me to access the WP dashboard. I could login via a homepage plugin that I had, but got a permission error when trying to access /wp-admin.

At this point, I threw in the towel, hired a pro via freelancer.com and for $25, he fixed the rest in about 40 minutes. Though the first fix didn’t give me Administrative privileges though it acknowledge me a an admin. He fixed that too.

So the biggest mistake I made was not backing everything up, as the plugin strongly suggests.

Let me extra clear for anyone thinking about this plugin: It is beyond amazing. It does everything that it promises to do and more. It has so many options that it is mind boggling and if you only understand a fraction of them, your site will still be far more secure. I have used every function at one time or another on another site with ZERO issues. This is incident, though unfortunate, was an anomaly and likely due to something specific about the site I was implementing it on.

donhoward: I truly do appreciate any and all help/advice that I have received here and elsewhere. The web-community at large is like an evolution of the hippy movement, though probably better groomed.

I have used the AIO Security (the one that sparked the issue) on other sites to change the login page but that wasn’t the issue here. BTW: It has worked wonderfully on other sites, so there was just something hinky on this site.

The problem was that I had the plugin in change all of the database table prefixes from “wp_” to some random 6 character prefix. That, for some unknown reason, unleashed havoc.

Endlyss Member: Thank you for that script suggestion. I have finally fixed my situation so I don’t need it now, though it would’ve come in handy! I do though move site frequently and have been doing more and more WP based sites for clients so this will likely come in handy down the line.

For anyone wondering what I did: Via phpadmin (cPanel) I searched thru the database tables and changed the prefix back to “wp_”. There is a search-and-replace function in here that works on, at least, a table by table basis. I deleted the plugin via ftp. I deleted all table columns (?) that were related to the plugin (had aios… in it). I downloaded the version of WP the site was using (which was the most current) and replaced all the folders/files via ftp except the content folder. I then, to be overly safe, created a new user for the database and added in the missing info in the wp-config.php file.

That restored the site back to the way it was with the exception of still not allowing me to access the WP dashboard. I could login via a homepage plugin but got a permission error when trying to access /wp-admin.

At this point, I threw in the towel, hired a pro via freelancer.com and for $25, he fixed the rest in about 40 minutes.

I did not post any sensitive UN/PW information and would never. I appreciate your concern and the concern of the mod but at a 14 year plus professional web designer, I know better but you couldn’t have known that.

Although if you had gone to the site you have seen that the UN/PW were simply to deal with controlling access to viewing the site. It gets a lot of traffic and we didn’t want the masses to view it until we fixed it. It was simply a password protected folder.

I included the UN/PW so that anyone who might be able to help me could view the issue.

That UN/PW in no way could provide anyone any more access to the site than to simply view it as a visitor.

I appreciate the rec for the plugin but as mentioned above I cannot login to the dashboard to install it if I wanted to.

Your advice is sound and appreciated. Sorry to be defensive but…Mercury is only now leaving retrograde. Ha!

Well, the site is better and at least no content was lost. I finished the above, tried everything in that link you provided but am still falling short. Hoping you can still help.

https://rocktownhall.com/blogs

UN= rock
PW= townhall

Remaining issues:

I can login via the sidebar plugin that I have but I can’t access the dashboard via the dropdown “dashboard” link under the “Rock Town Hall ? Rock Music Discussion” menu in the upper left nor by going to https://rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-admin. Either way I get “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

The only other issue, I think, is that all of the post images are looking for them to me at https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads… when they are actually at https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads

Can you help with either of those?

Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I do appreciate your follow-up.

I have renamed the plugin folder and that didn’t help. I downloaded the plugin folder (for restoration later) and deleted online. That didn’t help.

My issue came after I had the plugin change the prefix for my databases to a random 6 character one. So I figure that the issue is with my databases. Via phpadmin I have renamed and all tables back to wp_ and have “drop”ped all tables related to the plugin and deleted the plugin from my plugins folder via ftp.

None of that did the trick. So now I’m reinstalling all core WP files, except wp-content which I am now uploading.

Well it must, in some way, be related to this plugin. Everything worked fine. I activated the plugin, started making some settings in the plugin’s settings area and my site collapsed. So I understand that you don’t want your plugin to get a bad rap and of the many times I have used it on other sites it worked great, but in this case it did not.

There may be a conflict with another plugin in which case it may be an issue with the other plugin. As I can’t login, I can’t find out. All I know for sure is that this plugin triggered a site meltdown.

Actually the site is all messed up. Please help?

Spoke too soon. The site is back but the header is gone and I can’t login

Error 403 – Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access the requested resource. Please contact the web site owner for further assistance.

Help?

Fixed it. Had to rewrite my wp-config file via the cPanel file editor as the DW version wasn’t working. Have no idea how/why but the site is back at least.

Worked for me but not without making a major error. I deleted an entry that had a name very similar to “aio_wp_security_configs” but wasn’t exact. My bad. Oooof.

After I resolved that, I followed the above to the letter and it worked. Thank you Plugin Author. This plugin is beyond great.

Thanks for the response. Very much appreciated. How do I get the Showcase Header on every page?