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aha. It was a plugin breaking it.

I deactivated all my plugins and re-activated them one by one. When I reactivated “WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.0” the problem came back.

Fixed.

What are your file perms set for?

Also, verify you have nothing set to 777. Use 755 for dirs. Check the contents of any dirs you have previously set to 777- you will likely find a ton of spammers’ files stored there.

I got hacked the same way.

Check your file permissions. WordPress wants 666 so you can use the built-in theme editor. This makes the theme files world writable.

I have change my perms to 644 unless editing. 664 while editing then change back to 644 immediately on completion. Alternative is to edit locally with Notepad etc and upload with FTP while keeping perms 644.

aha.

Akismet management appears at a different place in 2.1.3.

[ /wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin ]

My bookmark for the Akismet admin point for the 2.0.5 version

[ wp-admin/edit.php?page=akismet/akismet.php ]

was causing the error.

I think Akismet may still be working, but I can’t view nor delete the trapped spam messages.

No linked text regarding Akismet appears when opening

wp-admin/edit.php?page=akismet/akismet.php

In a working installation, I see links for the following:

* Posts
* Pages
* Categories
* Comments
* Awaiting Moderation (33)
* Files
* Akismet Spam (47)
* Subscriptions
* Email Notification
* Backup

When trying to open that page, this error comes up:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare akismet_init() (previously declared in /home/machineg/public_html/shao/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php:15) in /home/machineg/public_html/shao/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php on line 14

I do use it and don’t find it evil.

Anyone know how to fix this problem?

OK, then how do I fix the non-appearance of the “tinymce” buttons?

rudolf, sorry, that’s not correct. The box is labelled “use visual rich-text editor” by virtue of ticking the box.

I have several WP installations and they all work properly- except one. They all display the quicktag buttons for WYSIWYG formatting when the box is ticked.

Are we talking about the same buttons?

not yet- I’ll post that later if I can’t fix it. ??

Brilliant, thanks for that. Was investigating another problem (post would not appear despite published status) and ran across this anomaly in the SQL records.

Much appreciate your help.

Thanks for the reply, HS.

I’m wondering why the posts prior to 11 Mar 2006 are all sequentially numbered and don’t have ‘attachments,’ but those after that date do have attachments which occupy a post ID number.

One more observation. This problem started on a specific date. I have gone looking for any settings which the blog’s owner may have changed, but I can’t find any that would apparently cause this problem.

I’ve also noticed that in those records where only the image filename appears, the POST_STATUS field, instead of reading ‘published,’ ‘draft,’ etc. reads ‘attachment.’

One of the WP blogs I’m adminning has been skipping IDs. When I looked in the SQLdb, I found image filenames in the TITLE field in SQLMyAdmin in otherwise blank SQL records.

In example, the image “https://site.com/images/joe1.jpg” is used in post ID #1. All the fields in the SQL record for post ID #2 are totally blank, except for the filename “joe1.jpg” in the TITLE field of post ID #2.

If post #1 contains joe1.jpg, joe2.jpg and joe3.jpg, those filenames will appear in the TITLE field for the SQL records which SHOULD be for post IDs #2, #3 and #4.

When a new post is published, the post ID will resume at the next blank record.

Anyone got a fix for this?