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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Polylang] Can’t add language switcher to header menu in 5.5.3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-add-language-switcher-to-header-menu-in-5-5-3/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-add-language-switcher-to-header-menu-in-5-5-3/#post-13611922)
 * Sorry but could I ask you to look at this again? While I concede I hadn’t operated
   the admin bar’s language filter, the only effect of doing that is to limit the
   pages / posts available with the visible menu item types; it makes no difference
   to which types appear in the first place. In every other respect I have followed
   the procedure that you outline. Might WP have introduced a bug of which you were
   previously unaware? I can reproduce or eliminate the fault reliably by using 
   either 5.5.3 or 5.5.1, but clearly that is not a sane longterm strategy for creating
   a useful menu!
 * I am inclined to think that WordPress itself and not the plugin may well be the
   source of the problem. in which cases your assistance might be useful: indeed
   it may be in both our interests for you to share this finding with WordPress:
 * After setting to “on” the Language Switcher via Appearance->Customiser->Menus
   I have established by opening wp-admin a second concurrent tab that, as you’d
   expect in the absence of an enabled “Publish” button, there is no write-back.
   Accordingly the option to add the switcher to a menu is not presently made available.
   This applies across the 3 themes I have tried, which FYI are Cyberchimps Responsive,
   Attesa, and Lovecraft. In all three cases this problem arises in 5.5.3 but not
   in 5.5.1
 * Thanks
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/).
      Reason: typos
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Visual appearance issues 4.1.6 and new customizer issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/#post-12591688)
 * You said that already.
 * My question is how do I do that without a paid account? Your support page assumes
   I have a login already and gives no option that I see do create one. My people
   are using the free version. Do they have to buy something?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Visual appearance issues 4.1.6 and new customizer issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/#post-12589194)
 * Can I do that for free theme and without a premium account? If so, how?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Visual appearance issues 4.1.6 and new customizer issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-appearance-issues-4-1-6-and-new-customizer-issues/#post-12548169)
 * Okay, so today I see there is a 4.1.8, last updated 26 February, despite your
   having encouraged me to downoad the “latest” 4.1.6 on 11 March. I am confused!
 * I’ll not update to 4.1.8 until I hear your views on my 4.1.6 findings, in case
   you need to look at the page as indicated under 4.1.6.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Help with colorization please?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-colorization-please/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-colorization-please/#post-12534280)
 * (marking this resolved)
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Help with colorization please?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-colorization-please/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-colorization-please/#post-12534278)
 * Thank you [@manishverma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manishverma/)
 * Version 4.1.6 has indeed resolved those issues but seems to have lost some other
   options regarding text colors on sidebar and introduced a typography related 
   issue also on sidebar. I shall raise a new ticket regarding that presently, and
   another about a separate query.
 * Kind regards
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Change container size of header image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-container-size-of-header-image/)
 *  [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-container-size-of-header-image/#post-12434372)
 * I found this too, but a lateral think fixed the issue. Setting Header Layout 
   to “Logo Center” does it right, while reverting to Logo Left will reintroduce
   the problem. Since it’s full width the alignment L vs R vs Center doesn’t matter.
 * My concern is … if the design team thinks the small size is in some way “right”,
   might a future release break our sites? Please Mr/Ms Cyberchimp let it not be
   so!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Recent FB Posts] Facebook App Review?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-app-review-6/)
 *  [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-app-review-6/#post-12023498)
 * Well, fair play to you [@dvankooten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvankooten/)
   for having the good grace to come tell us in person. That matters!
 * Meanwhile, regarding reverting to 2.0.13, I had anticipated that the fix would
   be temporary, and indeed after a few days it also perished.
 * There are alternatives out there but so far I haven’t summoned the mental energy
   to look at them. Real life gets in the way, you know??
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Recent FB Posts] Facebook App Review?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-app-review-6/)
 *  [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-app-review-6/#post-11983711)
 * Well it doesn’t look like the plugin is abandoned as-such, given an update to
   2.0.14 late September. I have found that deploying that update invalidates the
   credentials in some way, but happily rolling back to 2.0.13 AND restoring the
   database – which may be the bad news if you’ve added much other content to your
   site in the meantime – did get it working again.
 * So, can I please add my voice to the chorus, Danny can you help please??
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Responsive] Header menu going wrong with Responsive 2.7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-menu-going-wrong-with-responsive-2-7/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-menu-going-wrong-with-responsive-2-7/#post-9263642)
 * That appears to have worked, but not before throwing this at me:
 * _Update Failed: .addon-count { display: inline-block; z-index: 26; margin: 1px
   0 0 2px; margin-top: 1px; margin-left: 5px; padding: 0 6px; border-radius: 10px;
   color: #fff; background-color: #d54e21; font-size: 9px; font-weight: 600; line-
   height: 17px; vertical-align: top; } {“success”:true,”data”:{“update”:”theme”,”
   slug”:”responsive”,”newVersion”:”2.7.2″}}_
 * I took no remedial action, but the sane appearance is restored
 * **What are the implications of this, if any? **
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Scan hangs scanning contents additional files](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-hangs-scanning-contents-additional-files/)
 *  [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-hangs-scanning-contents-additional-files/#post-9191058)
 * Regarding the page [https://docs.wordfence.com/en/My_scans_don’t_finish._What_would_cause_that%3F](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/My_scans_don’t_finish._What_would_cause_that%3F)
   
   O finding hangup today I set the max execution time to 15 s suggested and found
   that after the said 15 seconds (well 13 actually) the scan was terminated with
   an error bearing the legend “scan interrupted”. Setting 40 seconds had a similar
   result after 31 seconds/ So I cranked it up (arbitrariliy just guessing) to 300(
   ie 5 minutes) and got a good result.
 * I don’t have problem with any particular numeric setting but FYI:-
 * Two issues here, one quite serious the other less so but still wrong:
    (1)Your
   page suggests that the scan resumes. It doesn’t; it dies. And if you meant “after
   the user or cron job resumes” then I have to query then the statement “we pause
   the scan and launch another process and pick up where we left off” appears to
   be untrue. (2) Might it be worth your adding the rider “timings are approximate”?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Wordfence “Problem” with time.ly calendar plugin: False positive?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/#post-9039083)
 * First – thank you once more for attention, clues and pointers.
 * There is a long version below of my latest outcome in which you may find some
   of the asides to be noteworthy, but the punchline is this:
    Following an update
   of the PHP version which was at end-of-life and an update to the calendar plugin(
   not in that order unfortunately which would have been better diagnostic path)
   there are no differences for WordFence to fail to find. So I guess that’s the
   end of that.
 * While I don’t know for a fact that it didn’t contribute, I can say that it wasn’t
   MULTISITE alone. I removed the MULTISITE statement from wp-config.php first of
   all, because as you quite rightly detected I wasn’t seeking to create a WP network.
   It seems that the WP install inserted that code because it was going into a subdomain.
   When that didn’t make any difference and I logged into my ISP account to remove
   the code for that its dashboard flagged the PHP issue, and so after checking 
   that the WP/WF problem persisted I pursued that. And then – there was the curveball
   of Calendar 2.5.19 which I will own up to having mismanaged as regards diagnostic
   purposes in my fatigue/haste.
 * The long version:-
 * Re. Multisite: I presume that because I set the thing up in a conventionally 
   externally hosted subdomain, WordPress set that parameter to true. It wasn’t 
   ever my intention to be multisite. In fact I have an old and curently inactive
   Joomla implementation of something entirely different as the main domain’s site
   content which I opted to leave in place for the time being. By way of proving
   the assumption about the subdomain, I had a look at the wp-config.php on a copy
   of the site running locally under wampserver but in a main domain setting, and
   sure enough the code for that parameter was absent, and so (I presume!) false.
 * However, I couldn’t activate Wordfence in the virtual server environment to test
   the change locally, as my attempt to do so broke the copy site (“connection reset”)
   This was fixed easily enough by renaming the wordfence folder. I thought you 
   might like some intelligence of that if you don’t have it already.
 * So, next I edited the wp-config.php on the externally hosted subdomain and ran
   a scan. The error persisted.
 * Now, I mentioned that old Joomla site not for the fun of it but because my main
   hosting was still on PHP 5.3 and I see that WordPress recommends PHP7.0. The 
   Joomla release o n that site is out of date and not compatible with that; it 
   can’t go beyond 5.6. I need to update the Joomla version – but not right now!
   Like I say it’s inactive anyway and the subject of a business related rethink.
 * So, was PHP5.3 the source of the problem? Well, I updated to 5.6 and no it wasn’t.
   What then of 5.6? I went to 7.0 temporarily, but before scanning again I was 
   surprised by an update to the calendar plugin from 2.5.18 to 2.5.19 which inadvertently
   I agreed to before re-test – and when I did run the scan again there were no 
   issues raised at all about the calendar plugin, and thus no changes to look for!
   Apologies for failing to have a cast-iron iterative process here.
 * You asked for a list of problems detected. Prior to this there were 66, of which
   63 related to the calendar and of those 63 most were related to language files–
   and as it happens not the one in which I have an interest! After the 2.5.19 /
   PHP7.0 update there were only the other 3 “issues” and those related to:
    wp-
   admin/includes/upgrade.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-includes/load.php I can
   see the differences in those cases and there is nothing dramatic or scary – just
   some changes to exit logic in error handling e.g. die→ exit. So, I’m okay with
   that.
 * I have since reverted to PHP5.6. And the issues didn’t come back. I intend to
   stay on 5.6 for the time being, until either I can address that Joomla update
   or WordPress stops recommending 7.0 and starts to insist on it.
 * The ISP self service console won’t take me back any earlier than PHP5.6 since
   5.3 thru 5.5 are at end of life. Accordingly, it seems likely there was some 
   conflict between Calendar 2.5.18 and WordFence, but there is a chance too that
   PHP5.3 was all or part of the annoyance. My money would be on the calendar plugin,
   but I guess we may never know!
 * No point in reinstating the MULTISITE parameter given the final outcome – at 
   this point I’ll gamble on our not needing to know.
 * Thanks for everything w
    Kind regards Danny L.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Wordfence “Problem” with time.ly calendar plugin: False positive?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/#post-9020725)
 * Have done that now Sorry for delay.
    In fact I did it twice because no sooner
   had I turned my back than a polylang update appeared! Since I’m not party to 
   exactly where you are looking or what for (or whether it’s for my specific benefit
   or the community as a whole) I thought I’d send you a before and an after just
   in case – unlikely though it might be – the polylang update provided a fix. Of
   course the polylang update made no difference, and the issue persists. Accordingly
   the first one timed around 2151BST I guess you can disregard, and the one timed
   around 2157BST is the one currently of interest.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Wordfence “Problem” with time.ly calendar plugin: False positive?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/#post-9018982)
 * Updates? Oh yes. It was up to date yesterday at the time of reporting, and after
   the Tuesday Morning Edition of that theme (2.5) it s up to date again. Every 
   Plugin, the transations, the theme, and WordPress itself. The issue persists.
 * Re the diagnostis:
    http and https connecting both report “OK”, and indeed I 
   do get the daily email, which rather suggests that the site is indeed in touch.
 * Eerything else presents a catalogue of OKs too, however a couple of things did
   catch my eye which don’t strke me as germaine to the matter in hand. Even so,
   I ought to give you the chance to say “that’s it!” if indeed it is.
 * 1. “Warning: posix_getpwuid() has been disabled for security reasons in […]/wp-
   content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfDiagnostic.php on line 196” But I don’t imagine
   that user IDs or passwords are part of the problem?
    2. “Enable SSL connectivity”
   is checked as per default. Since this will be running in a non-SSL environment(
   yes – I know!!) I mention it for completeness.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Wordfence “Problem” with time.ly calendar plugin: False positive?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/)
 *  Thread Starter [dannyletham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyletham/)
 * (@dannyletham)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-problem-with-time-ly-calendar-plugin-false-positive/#post-9015792)
 * Yes wfalaa, it’s still there. Today’s WF scan altered me to a couple of other
   uodates – jetpack and the CyberChimps response theme, plus the alleged issue 
   on calendar.js. As before the link to show differences failed to find the WordPress
   core API file. So in order to be as up to date as possible I have updated the
   other two and the problem persists.
 * I am quite relaxed about it btw, and don’t perceive the problem as a real one.
   Thank you for having the patience to stay in touch over this; I hope that you
   are at least gaining some info about what’s going on elsewhere in the eco-system.
   I think that while WordFence is a desirable enough product for what it DOES in
   fact do, I don’t feel knowledgable enough to scold it for crying wolf which every
   instinct I possess is telling me is the case.
    Thak *you*

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