Grant Mangham

Great, thanks a lot.

Guest authors only exist as taxonomy terms, so

$is_guest = is_null( username_exists( $user_login ) );

should give you your answer (where $user_login is your author).

I am – North.

Thanks for the quick responses Brady.

I’m going to investigate this further, and I’ll let you know if I find anything awry.

Just to be clear, aside from this (potential) issue, this is an excellent plugin.

Reports have not specified, unfortunately, but it’s unlikely to involve quick or bulk edits.

I’m probably being dense here, but I cannot find the edit sidebar screen. Where would I find that?

That did work, thanks. I was under the impression just visiting the permalinks page would refresh them.

admin-functions.php is inside the wp-admin directory. That’s not where you want to be. Go up a level, and you’ll see the wp-content directory. Inside that is themes, inside that is twentyeleven, and inside that is the correct functions.php file.

You need to undo the changes you made to functions.php – which is in your theme directory. The error message indicates where to find it:
/home/content/77/10036877/html/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/functions.php

So, use FTP to access your site and locate themes/twentyeleven/functions.php. This is where you made your initial changes that caused the issue. Remove them.

For what it’s worth, what you describe sounds like the old pharma hack:

https://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/four-malware-infections-wordpress/#pharma-hack

Loads fine for me.

https://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/https://graduatecareertips.co.uk

If you view the source of your site (when it eventually loads) you’ll see a comment at the bottom:
WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory.

That said, something else is probably awry. I would turn off the caching plugin so as not to cloud the issue.

If your site is still slow, I would do the usual first debug steps: try a standard theme (twentysomething). If that makes no difference, disable all you plugins and reactivate one by one, checking everytime.

My guess right now would be that something is doing a massive DB query.

Your home page loading time is clocking in at 3-4 seconds for me. Not good but not that terrible. Looking at your GTmetrix report, there is no single point of failure – just lots of smaller things, many of which could be remedied with W3TC.

Google doesn’t care what directory is used for caching. The plugin should be using get_temp_dir() to establish the path to a viable temporary directory, rather than sys_get_temp_dir() (in google-api-php-client/src/config.php). sys_get_temp_dir is not reliable in shared environments.

Hi Paul,

It’s more a case of waiting for WordPress to be updated to work with the latest jQuery UI version, as the plugin just uses the UI library that’s bundled with WP. Until then, as far as custom theming goes, the plugin is in limbo I’m afraid.

Thanks for drawing this to my attention.

jQuery UI changed its CSS as of version 1.9. WordPress currently comes with jQuery 1.8.20. So, unfortunately, the latest versions of the themes will not work with the latest version of WordPress.

If you wish, you can still download older versions of the themes, here:
https://blog.jqueryui.com/2012/04/jquery-ui-1-8-20/

It looks like you should be safe with versions up to and including 1.8.24.