Ted Thompson

YES!! You da man! I deactivated all the plugs and was left with a string as you describe. tmp and a string of alphanumeric characters behind it.

a:1:{i:0;s:117:"../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp/tmplT9kBo/sess_afbd2f9514b1a50a6bd000997bb7d78c";}

I simply deleted the string, leaving the entry in the table.

reactivated the plug-ins on my admin panel and all is right now.

Thankee!! ^_^

Strangly I also had a table entry labeled deactivated_plugins or something like that.

It contained a:11:{i:0;s:117:"../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp/tmplT9kBo/sess_afbd2f9514b1a50a6bd000997bb7d78c";i:1;s:48:"../../wp-content/themes/paper/screenshot_old.jpg";i:2;s:36:"MODDED random-posts/random-posts.php";i:3;s:19:"akismet/akismet.php";i:4;s:36:"contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php";i:5;s:43:"google-analyticator/google-analyticator.php";i:6;s:36:"google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php";i:7;s:24:"headspace2/headspace.php";i:8;s:39:"search-everything/search_everything.php";i:9;s:21:"wordtube/wordtube.php";i:10;s:27:"wp-wetfloor/wp-wetfloor.php";}

Believing it didn’t belong there I totally deleted the entry. It didn’t seem to return (yes I cycled activation of some plugins to see if it triggered a “regeneration” of the entry. Jury is out on that one…)

Just found too, that this second plug in post referenced a file added to my theme directory – looks like a compiled PHP file – I deleted it too.

Might be a conflict with WP – now a days you can set what page shows as the “first page” in the options, er, settings part of the admin.

Maybe the plugin and the core are butting heads?

I’m still hunting. Here’s what I’ve found so far..

I chased the variables all over the code – so I know that get_bloginfo(‘version’); is going to report the value of $wp_version, which is SUPPOSED to be defined in the wp-includes/version.php file.

I manually defined $wp_version to be 2.5.1 in the check version function, and the box went away – dashboard said I had 2.5.1. However, if I removed that line, it went back to “update now” and version 2.5 – even tho version.php clearly said 2.5.1

Last thing I did was edit version.php so that $wp_version = ‘ABCDEFG-2.5.1’. The damn thing says 2.5, so $wp_version is being redefined somewhere, but so far I can’t find it.

I even removed the “;” so that the version.php file would cause a crash, this was to be SURE it was being accessed, and it was.

So somewhere after version.php is included, it’s being redefined as 2.5 – another hack issue I’d wager…

Update_core also says 2.5 – I even deleted it and when it was re-written, 2.5 was among the string, not 2.5.1

Thanks. I’m still hunting for what makes it think it’s still 2.5 when it’s 2.5.1

So far the only (unacceptable) thing that I’ve done that worked is export – reinstall making a blank database – then import.

I could load a backup, as I use a plugin that auto-dumps and email the database every week, but this seems to be related to the site being hacked (I think they are calling it the wp-info hack?) and I don’t know when the corruption occured.

I deleted and reinstalled all but wp-content and I scoured that manually so the “NEW” files are gone. I deleted the phantom users from the database. So I think the hacks are gone, but I still get the “update nag”

Back to hunting…

Nasty piece of work that… If they felt that “most people don’t use it, and it’s cluttering the interface” I can see that – but then make it an OPTION don’t delete it!

>_<

Anywho – nice pluggie, thanks for making it.

Ditto – in fact a few of them have, even ones that appeared OK.

Is there a mailing list to get alerts to this sort of thing? Had it not been for your link, I’d have never known about this…

O_O

While that’s good to know, as a “plugin” it doesn’t address my “gripe” since I feel it should be native to wordpress. This is my “feedback”, my 2 cents….

Actually, I did a clean install last night and after going though the script to generator a config.php the admin backend came up as an empty page. I checked the config.php directly via FTP and it had a white space after the ?> and an extra carrage return too.

I don’t exclude that it’s the fault of my ISPs server tho.

Well then I guess it IS up for debate eh?

So it was a matter of the template being incompatible – good to keep in mind – I too had that happen when 2.5 first came out, but that template was practically a program of it’s own – very complex.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/171849?replies=5#post-743662

Seems to cover this? I had an error revolving around the file mentioned in that thread too, when I checked it wasn’t there. I uploaded it alone via FTP and that problem went away.

SoundTrip I have to same thing here. 5 sites no problem, 6th one keeps telling me it’s 2.5.

On the 5 that went off without a hitch, I uploaded the zip and then unzipped using a php script. I didn’t delete anything, just overwrote originals.

They are all ok.

I did the 6th one that way too – kept saying 2.5. Did the deletions ala “Step 7 and 8” kept saying 2.5… files have the correct dates/times, cleared the browser cache, version.php says 2.5.1 dunno what else to check.

(PS – whooami, to paraphrase from another post where you also employed your unique tact – you’re an ass, and don’t bother coming back and telling us you’re not, you are, it’s not open for debate.)

I’ve got the same thing.

Site address gives me the normal front page, but if I use “https://www.blogaddress.com/foobar&#8221; which isn’t actual content, instead of the themes 404 page, I get every “page” on the site as one long run-on page.

I’ve deleted and reinstalled, I’ve disabled all plug ins, changed to the default theme – none of these things have worked.

The only thing that does stop it is changing your permalinks to the default.

It doesn’t like the following in “funtions.php” of your applied theme either…

<?php

Php code

?>
<!-- html comment -->
<?php

Php code

?>

It wants you to do this:

<?php

Php code

/* php comment */

Php code

?>

Doesn’t seem to matter *if* you use HTML code, but if it’s only a comment between ?> and <?php it gets pissy…

Sounds like your on your way to putting a “spin” on this. Which is your only real defense.

I think I’d make a big deal about it by basically pointing out what he’s doing based on a “I must be on to somthing to rate this kind of attention” angle.

What ever you do, take the high road. Anyone who would be on your side will be able to figure out for themselves what kind of person he/she is, you don’t have to tell them.

At that point, you’ll be “the bigger man” so to speak, and will have taken the best steps you can toward any needed “damage control” as is related to your rep/identity.

Curious – I looked at it in Firefox and IE and it looks the same… Well as much the same as they ever do ??

I think the original poster is suffering from there being a “position:absolute;” in his CSS for the footer DIV.

IE His footer has <div class=”credits”> and in his CSS he has .credits { position:absolute; /blah blah/ }

I think that position attribute is the problem, but I may be wrong.

As to the Illusive Life site, it looks fine both ways. I do notice that the header image is missing. Looks like there should be a “lemony.jpg” in the “images” sub-directory under the theme directory. I get a 404 error when I try to fetch it.