Website Rob

Maybe I’m not seeing what you are as the two images look almost identical.

One suggestion I can make is the image size of 4654 × 3469 pixels and a file size of 193KB definitely requires some optimization.

Contact your Hoster and ask if they can restore a Server backup. First try to remember on what date your site was working correctly. Tell them that date or earlier.

2, what do you mean by placing the line outside wordpress?

Yes, that is what they meant. So it would look like:

# END WordPress

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

A better suggestion though is to not to use the E= line at all and change file permissions for .htaccess to 444. If anything trys to make changes in the future they will not be able to–not even you. You would first have to change file permissions back to 644 before any changes could be made.

It is a fact that a higher PHP version can cause problems with some plugins although upgrading WordPress & Plugins with an older version of PHP will cause few, if any, problems.

I know this because I’ve run into this same problem with other sites. Perhaps chatting more with this other person you mention, they can help/guide you with doing what needs to be done.

It has to do with a CSS property called Specificity, which is basically Order of Priority.

No space between classes has a higher Specificity than those that do because it’s treated as a separate class–a Super Class if you will.

section.wp-block-uagb-section.uagb-section__wrap.uagb-section__background-image.uagb-block-4fa9dbdc.desktop.aboutCover

Has a higher priority because the classes have been chained together (no space between them). So the “.destop.aboutCover” is not (in this case) a stand-alone class. Because it is chained to 1 Element (section) and 4 Classes you have to include them all when wanting to make a change.

If you had a space before .desktop:
section.wp-block-uagb-section.uagb-section__wrap.uagb-section__background-image.uagb-block-4fa9dbdc .desktop.aboutCover

then you could do something with it.

Here is a more thorough explanation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

Can you state how you were “told” you need to update PHP? If your site is working fine at the moment then the PHP version you are using is fine. Yes, updating at some point will have to be done but if it’s not a problem at the moment then leave it till later. Updating it now may cause problems as some Plugins do not work correctly with newer PHP versions.

Greetings and Welcome

Unfortunately you have been presented with errors that will take some digging, troubleshooting and time to resolve. This could require doing a lot of hands-on investigating.

Yes, you could continue to ask questions at this Forum although the answers might confuse you more. Someone, like me for example, could say to Disable all Plugins and see if the error msgs. go away. If they do then Active the Plugins one at time until you get an error msg. Then Disable the one just Enabled and continue this process until all Plugins have been checked. Once the trouble Plugins are known you decide what to do–remove them or figure out what the problem is with them. Do they need updating, is there a conflict with another Plugin, etc.

If you don’t know how to do these things already, you will need to learn as Adding / Removing / Troubleshooting Plugins is a requirement to using WordPress. There are other things you need to start learning about as well, on your own, as Replies in this Forum might be over a longer period of time than you would prefer.

If the front-side is currently working correctly it will give you some time to find
someone who can help. Or you can do the Reply – Answer method for as long as it takes. Most people do the latter although they are not usually thrown into a situation such as yours.

Glad to hear you got it sorted. Also a nice touch to update with what you did to solve the problem. That might help someone else in the future.

Be well.

Now as I’m getting a database connection error. Not sure why but you should check the ‘wp-config.php’ to make sure the settings are correct.

Looks like your site has been hacked. Best to contact your Hoster for advice ASAP.

I say that because the ‘index.php’ file (which is the first page to load) has been renamed to ‘index.php.bak’ by somebody or something.

The way you have the code in your .htaccess file is correct. I forgot to mention about the ‘RewriteEngine On’ having to come first–good catch.

As to what the URL was before is no matter. Now is the time to decide what you want it to be and as stated already, there are only 2 places where you want to make those changes. Your mention of “clearing the cache” is a good one and should be done if you are using any cache plugins.

Aslam, the problem is that your site can be accessed with ‘www’ and without it. This can get very confusing as your problem is directly related to this.

First, you need decide if you want to use ‘www’ in your URL. I would say NO and so would many others. For that reason I will presume you also agree as it looks like WordPress is already setup that way.

Now you need to check in Admin -> Settings: General
Makes sure your WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) do not have ‘www’ before your Domain name, it would read:
Next you need to edit a file in your Hosting account. It is found in the ‘public_html’ dir. of your site and named ‘.htaccess’. In your Hosting Control Panel should be a link to File Mgr. — use that to find and open the file.

Copy & Paste the following at the very top of the .htaccess file.

#############################
##  General Settings

Options  +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch -FollowSymlinks -Indexes

RewriteEngine ON

# Define the default Character Set for Browsers
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

## if a URL is used with www then redirect to an https URL that does not use www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.the925millionaire.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://the925millionaire.com/$1 [R=301,L]

#############################

Contact your Hoster if you are not sure about how to use your Hosting Control Panel.

Finally, edit the ‘private-group-access’ page in WordPress to remove ‘www’ from any links in the page.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

First, it looks like you have an SSL Cert mismatch as the Cert is issued to ‘example.com’ (not webbick.com) so my Browser won’t load your site–security violation. You need to talk to your Hoster to fix that.

Second, use your Hosting Control Panel to access your File Mgr. and view the page from there. You can then search for a .dms file and remove the code for it.

Forgot to mention that ‘www.example.com’ needs to be replaced with your Domain name.

First, stop making all those changes. Put things back the way they were. I understand your frustration but to continue making changes will just cause more problems.

I’m not sure why you cannot see your site as I can and so can GTMetrix:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.kanekuo.com/QyvIMWIC

There are only two places where you should change the URL:
Admin -> Settings: General

And in your .htaccess file.
— copy below this line —
# If an https URL is not being used then redirect to use https
# This is mostly for when other sites have links to your site
# but didn’t use https:// or sometimes types only Domain name into their Browser
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
— do not copy this line —

You copy & paste the above code into the very top of .htaccess file as you want it to be the first thing to happen.

Sometimes propagation can take awhile for a URL change to kick in, especially with GoDaddy for some reason. You may have to have to wait between 1 & 6 hours. Or it could be something else, I’m just guessing here. ??