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Did you create a blank home.php. If so, that would explain why out of no where you are seeing this issue. Drop us a link to the site so we can see what you are talking about.

Personally, the fonts are way too small and the mix of faux caps and regular is kinda jarring.

Just check your loop and remove it. It will look like this: the_date();

For your specific example you will remove code that looks similar to this:

on <?php the_date(); ?>

Your theme is listing both pages and categories in your header. You will need to edit that part of your theme, most likely header.php, to not include categories.

Sure thing.

/var holds a lot of important information on a unix/linux based system. In var, you will find things such as logs, mail, crons, lockfiles, pidfiles, etc, etc. Each one of these files has a specific owner/group and file permissions that are needed for the program to work.

What you did, made every file now be owned by root. That’s not a good thing. Then you made every folder inside /var writable by anyone, including malicious users. Not only did you leave a huge location on disk for malicious users to store their own goodies, since /var/log/ can now be written to by anyone, they can also alter the logs on their way out.

In my professional opinion, I would backup your data, and reinstall. It would be much faster than trying to analyze all of the files that you have modified.

chown root -R /var/*
chmod 777 /var/*

Unfortunately, you likely broke a lot more that you could have ever hoped to fix with those commands.

You should make a backup of your wordpress installation and your database and look to reinstalling you server soon.