John H

Yes. It’ll be in my sidebar and also a page.

I have Google Analytics hooked up and have tried in the past to use it to track a file download, but I’ve had very little success.

I know I must be doing it wrong or missing something. If there’s just a quick plug and play option that would be awesome… or a really good tutorial on how to do this with GA.

Thanks zoonini.

How important is your blog to you?

If it’s really important then I’d simply hire someone to fix it for you as it appears you are not qualified for it. Then once you get it patched up and as good as new, install the WordPress File Monitor plugin.

It’ll tell you if any of your files change and which files they were, that way next time you’ll know exactly where you need to go to fix the problem.

Also, install the Login Lockdown plugin and the WordPress Firewall or Firewall 2 plugin.

You said, specifically, the WYSIWYG editor (which IS the GUI/Visual editor) ?? But the open in a new tab will be there for HTML in WP 3.2 (it’s already there on my beta test site).

My bad, you’re right. Thanks.

As for the nofollow, my point really is this: Why are you linking to something, in a blog post, if you’re not feeding it link juice intentionally? If you have an affiliate link in a blog post, that’s something YOU are promoting, so you SHOULD allow the follow to go as normal.

That’s a good point. There’s just been a lot of talk lately with Google and sites built to sell a product so it was an idea which has been on my mind lately.

Thanks for your time.

Hey Ipstenu,

I had to go check my blog because I didn’t remember ever seeing the “open in a new tab” button. I guess it’s an option available in the Visual Editor and not the HTML.

Any chance of getting that on the HTML part? I know we’re suppose to be doing more coding here, but if the link button is there, why not make use of it.

As for the nofollow on affiliate links, it’s mostly because of Google.

Google seems very “iffy” when it comes to websites which are either just a squeeze page or is a site set up simply to sell a product or service.

In this case, whenever I link out to an affiliate page which is not a typical blog or website, I hate leaving it in Google and the site owner’s hands on how “happy” Google will be to see that link on my site.

The product might be solid, but the site might appear of no real value to Google.

It’s not really written in stone, but it’s nice to have that option.

Matt Cutts (the guy over at Google) talks about this subject on his YouTube channel:

Be careful about doing that.

Yeah I just installed this plugin on one of my niche websites and while browsing through the pages to make sure everything worked ok, I found the Chikita box in ONLY my Disclaimer page.

That’s kind of sneaky if you ask me, I don’t care if it’s disclosed in some readme file somewhere.

On top of that, the plugin has a pop up in the settings area asking me to donate.

Choice is yours if you want to use this plugin.

But just imagine for a moment if you hired a web designer to design a site and they inserted their affiliate links somewhere hidden on your site (i.e. one page you might not check), how would that make you feel?

Here’s a video on how to change your Username and Password in your database (phpMyAdmin).

Problem is, you don’t know for sure what this person has done to your website while they’ve had control.

The best thing to do is like someone mentioned above, contact your web host and ask them if they have a full backup (files and database) of your website from a time when you knew your site wasn’t hacked.

Once your site is back up and running, do this:
– install the WordPress Firewall plugin
– make sure wp is up to date as are all the plugins you use
– make sure your theme is up to date
– install security upgrades found in this book
– if you use FTP, make sure you’re using FTPS, FTPES, or SFTP
– make sure you do continual backups of your database and files

Hey vegasgeek… I live in the North West end of the valley.

Funny meeting you here! What is your Twitter ID so we can stay in touch.

Turns out we just deleted it all and contacted WishList to help with a new product key.

Thanks…

And no worries about the English ??

Thank you Curtiss for such a detailed response.

Curious that why WordPress suggests the 750 setting?

Just curious if anyone else might know which permission is better for the wp-config file.

Thanks.

It’s all good. Thanks for trying to figure it out with me.

Hi ClaytonJames.

Yep… that’s the rule of thumb I go by and preach. But then one of my customers brought that WordPress note in the Codex to my attention and I had to question it.

The notable difference is that 644 has World Read while 750 does not and in the Codex WordPress says:

It means that no other user will be able to read your database username and password.

Just wondering if there’s a relation there.