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htaccess123 was the problem, I suspect it was some tech guy at my host who renamed it to see if that was the source of the problem and then never “un-named” it back to just .htaccess.

At least now everything seems to be working, and it was actually really simple to fix in the DB, but I had just never messed around with databases before so it was a little unnerving.

I hope I have caught everything and it all goes smoothly from here.

Edit: It could have been any number of themes I had installed, but the theme that I really want to use is called newslayer from FThemes.com. Is that website reputable enough to use themes from?

I think it is probably a theme or a plugin that made a change to the DB and then stayed once it was deactivated. I had downloaded a lot of themes from different places to try them out without knowing the dangers. Now they are all deleted.

I did have a small victory, I searched the DB and found the above mentioned code in the posts table, and deleted it. I do not know why it was not showing up in WP backend. This did remove the ads, but I am still left with the 404 problem.

I did check the websites above and I did some snooping in my DB and filesystem and didn’t find anything unusual, although I may have missed something unknowingly. I did clean up all unneeded DB tables, all unneeded plugins, and templates. I also checked the uploads folder and the wp-config for anything suspicious and again didn’t find anything.

I did, however notice that my .htaccess file was renamed to .htaccess123 but I do not know if this is something my host has done while they were looking at my site or if this may be the cause of the problem.

Thanks for your help, what would cause 404’s like that when the data clearly still exists?

I have not figured out the problem, and it has actually gotten worse. I never looked anywhere but the main page of my site, and I just recently tried to click a category and noticed it led me to a 404. Every internal link on the site I have clicked has led me to a 404.

I guess that would explain the drop-off in traffic I have seen.

My god I just want to solve this, but I now have no clue what to do, my host will not do anything about it. I have deleted all of my templates and that has not helped.

I am thinking about doing a new clean WP install and reusing my DB and media folder. That should solve the problem right? Is this easy to do?

thanks for the reply.

No I do not know what that is, and i definitely did not put it in there.

I went to the html part of that post and could not find it in the wordpress backend, which menas something else is putting it in there…

How can I go about telling what this is and possibly removing it if I have no idea where it is coming from?

no luck. I am running out of ideas, I don’t know why all my machines would be showing it

Ok it is now on all browsers on my windows machine as well. Note that I have not installed anything new on the machines at all. It has to be coming from inside wordpress somewhere, but how do I chase it down?

sorry, my site is http://www.radbrains.com

Thanks for the response, I was playing around with the backend settings, and I switched the dimensions to absolute instead of relative, and that seemed to fix the problem. And absolute dimensions are ok with me.

Thanks for the reply though