tluskie

Yeah for sure use those caching plugins mentioned by Jan. That will save you the uptime. Also, in WP Super Cache, there is a function that will let you lock down your entire site in cache or specific pages (if you know what is going to get hit most). That way you are serving almost 100% from cached resources instead of slamming your database.

And for security, here’s some all around WP security tips: https://blogcraving.com/wordpress-blog-security/.

Good luck dude.

Once you get it cleaned up, you should sign up for Vaultpress. Read a review of the service https://blogcraving.com/wordpress-backups-disaster-plan/

https://vaultpress.com/

What is your url?

Try 775. If that doesnt work, try 777. If neither work, there is something else going on that is beyond a permissions issue.

Check your SPAM folder. I thought the exact same thing. Actually tried a bunch of times. Then I looked in my spam folder and saw like 8 of my recovery attempts!

Here’s some step by step instructions to convert PSD into your standard WordPress Theme: https://blogcraving.com/free-psd-wordpress-conversion-tutorial

If you are looking to do it yourself, practice and understanding the basic WP core is really all you need. You’ll gradually be able to add more layers and features once you know the basics.

First, I’d have you check out this documentation to make sure you set your settings correctly:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Settings_Reading_SubPanel

Make sure your files are not named one of the banned file names:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development#Theme_Template_Files_List

To get rid of that extra image, you could just do a quick/dirty CSS hack.

Add this to your style sheet:

.attachment-medium{display:none}

Yeah it will probably be a LONG time before you get any traction out of that site. The major problem is you have ZERO searchable text on your site!

All of the text on the site are really just big images with text in them. There is no way for Google to index that stuff or those pages. So you are not going to get results for those pages. Including your homepage.

Go thru your site and get rid of all the stuff like this:
https://www.hamiltoneastgueststay.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/inforbar.jpg

Convert it to REAL text on the page.

Yes, that font is fun and fancy, but it is not worth losing all your search engine traffic over.

Also, setup a robots.txt file in your root directory, and tag all of your pages/post with index,follow tags.

Mark your category, tag, archive, search pages as noindex.

Yeah it is pretty easy. Just make a post and stick it in a category of your choice.

The URL would then look like this:

yourwebsite.com/category/pizza

That would pull up all the blog posts about Pizza.

yourwebsite.com/category/specials

All the specials, etc.

Each Category then creates an RSS feed.

Then the RSS feed is available at:

yourwebsite.com/category/specials/feed

Did you check out the Answers section and User Guide on DIYThemes? I know there is a step by step tutorial on how to use your own custom header image in Thesis.

I uses Thesis with a custom header on my site, BlogCraving.com

What version of WordPress did you install? Did you use one of those “Auto Install” features from your host? Sometimes those are not the most current versions of WP.

What’s the site URL?

Dangerous idea if you are not careful.

Try this plugin:

https://alkivia.org/wordpress/capsman/

You can create a custom user type (call it whatever you want). You can then set specific things you want that type of user to be able to do…inclusing uploading and deleting.

You have to actually open up the post (as if you were going to edit it further) and click the PUBLISH button from there.