bogski

I’ve never seen that message before, but if you are getting login attempts for admin and such i would suggest looking at the access logs on your server, see if the file ‘xmlrpc.php’ is being access. People can use that file to flood you with incorrect logins, until they find one that works. It works because it goes around WordPress’s built in ‘failed login’ time out.

I dont know about securi, i use wordfence and it has a live traffic feature so i can see them trying to access it as it happens.

If you dont have that, and you can access your server (via putty/SSH) you could run

sudo tail -f /apache2/logs/access_logs

That will show you if someone is trying to exploit something on your site.

I might be completely wrong, I’m just basing this on my past experience with a website i look after. The failed login attempts using admin and site name suggest to me something sinister is going on.

Phil

EDIT:

I took a look at your website and i didnt get the error message. Do you use a custom font? because looking through the CSS file in your theme, i cant see any reference to a custom font.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by bogski.

I have noticed that some plugin authors are slow to reply. Its difficult to judge sometimes there are that many out there, i’m glad you got it sorted. I’ll take a look at that plugin, might come in handy at some point.

Phil

/**
 * Filter the except length to 20 characters.
 *
 * @param int $length Excerpt length.
 * @return int (Maybe) modified excerpt length.
 */
function wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

WP Codex

The codex recommends this. I havent tried it though

You should just need to set the post type to ‘posts’ and then choose the categories you want.

That worked for me anyway

do you have any reCAPTCHA code embedded in your template files? or do you have a plugin installed for it for another forms plugin? contact form 7 has its own built in so if thats set up it would appear on your forms, if you were using contact forms 7.

T’is about all i can think of if im honest. Im in the process of setting it up myself.

regards

Bogski