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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t edit post, no error messagesok. I was having the exact same problem. the post by naijaecash did not help.
After lot of debugging, found that the problem was due to multiple revisions (which are created from v2.6+ of wordpress).
Here is what I did to solve the problem…
1. Backed up the database
2. Opened the wp_posts table –> via phpMyAdmin
3. deleted all the “Inherited” posts (or revisions) of the Post that was problematic. (in my case, i had 4 revisions + the current revision). So, deleted 4 revision rows. (you can search posts by the name of post – select * from wp_post where post_title=’problem post title’)Thats it. Now, I am able to edit the post normally.
Hope this helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to prevent google from indexing trackback urls?Done. Added red=”nofollow”
from google help :
When Google sees the attribute rel=”nofollow” on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results.
Now, its not very clear. They dont say anything if the linked page is indexed or not. They only say that the ranking wont be effected.
From :
http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html#wwwAm i correct ?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to prevent google from indexing trackback urls?Offcourse, i want my posts to be indexed. I just want to exclude the trackback links from being indexed.
BTW, no follow only does NOT give weightage to links. It does not prevent a page from getting indexed. Correct me if i am wrong.
Ideally, when i do this search :
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:arjunprabhu.com+inurl:trackback it should not list any links. Thats what i am looking for.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adsense targetingFor some of my pages, the Ads that are displayed are not relevant at all! No matter what the content is, the Ad’s displayed are about ‘blogging’ etc, which are not at all relevant to the topic or the content of the page. That too after filtering lot of blog related site!
Let me explain with and example.
Say URL #1:
http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/virus-hits-instant-messengers/URL #2:
http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/Basically both #1 and #2 have the same content.
#1 is the permalink to the posting, and #2 is the archive for the day.If you notice, the Ads for URL #2 are very relevant but not for URL #1. The content is pretty old, and the google-bot has visited it for sometime now. I also did a google search, and URL #1 has a PR 2, and URL #2 has a PR 0. So, that would mean that #1 is known by google much better then #2.
I was wondering about this, and posted this question on one of the google adsense forums(@digitalpoint), but still haven’t got a satisfactory answer. Further, from one of the replies that i got on the forum, I figured out that the Ad’s would be relevant if we append a querystring to the URL as shown below
<A href=http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/
virus-hits-instant-messengers/?t=1
“>http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/
virus-hits-instant-messengers/?t=1Isn’t it strange ? Its clear that google mediabot indexes the page based on the URL. But what about the content?
Does it depend on the template used ?….or the permalinks….? i am zapped.
I think the /blog/ in my URL is the culprit. Can it be removed ? using some rewrite rules?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..ok. Finally came to know how exactly they broke in!… , and how wp 1.5.1.2 prevents it!
Mostly some one executed a handy readymade script to break in.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..Thanks for the input IanD -> Installed bad-behaviour.
Beer, …… no static IP. So, might not able to do that.
Would be a good idea to make wp-admin a secure area (password protected ?), using .htaccessForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..Thanks for the info David. I have already added that extra line of code to wp-includes/template-functions-category.php file. Hope that should be fine enough.
Thanks again. Now some relief!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..Thx David.
But are you sure about 1.5.1.2 will fix it for sure?
I did a manual fix. (as mentioned, added a line of code to the file mentioned). Is that fine?Are you sure that the hackers were able to add more users and gain admin access because of the security problem in 1.5.1.1 ? sure..? Or is it some new security issue ???
I just need confirmation….
Thanks in advance.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..Thanks for the info mdawaffe. I have changed my admin password now.
I also deleted the additional users created by the hackers.
BTW, i am NOT running the default theme. (so 1.5.1.2 wont make major difference right?)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Got hacked..can anyone explained how the managed to get in?
I did further ananlysis and found they they were somehow able to loginto the system. ie, get pass the wordpress security, and only then upload the file.
ie, my upload file feature was disabled.
They managed to login, create users, promote the user to level 10, and enable file upload.
and then ..uploaded the files…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I upgrade?cool. no hurry. i am ready to wait!