Title: etcbbu's Replies | WordPress.org --- # etcbbu [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 91 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/3/?output_format=md)… [5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/5/?output_format=md) [6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/7/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [What is the most basic plugin for Meta Descriptions?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/#post-10121247) * Thank you so much! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [What is the most basic plugin for Meta Descriptions?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/#post-10121213) * Before I have done the wizard, I went to my individual “Edit Post” itself, scrolled down to where it seems to be the Yoast plugin stuff, clicked “Edit snippet”, and it then seemed to expand out a new field called “Meta description”, where I went ahead and put in what I wanted the description to be, and then clicked“ Update” on the WordPress blog Post. * Now, when I open the live website, and look at the page source, it is giving me a line of code, saying * ” `` ” * Should I take that to mean it is done? That my Blog Post now has its own Meta description that I wanted it to be? - This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/). * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [What is the most basic plugin for Meta Descriptions?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-basic-plugin-for-meta-descriptions/#post-10121200) * I have installed it and activated it into my WordPress. Do I need to go through its “Yoast SEO for WordPress installation wizard” in order to define Meta Description for an individual post? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [How do you put a “Share” module on Posts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-put-a-share-module-on-posts/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-put-a-share-module-on-posts/#post-9958499) * Thank you so much for the insights, [@sterndata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/), you were most helpful! * –etcbbu * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [How do you put a “Share” module on Posts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-put-a-share-module-on-posts/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-put-a-share-module-on-posts/#post-9958308) * Is “Jetpack” free? - This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Really want to use “Extended Protection”, but scared about .htaccess file..](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/#post-9629731) * [@wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/) , it would appear I am good-to-go with enabling the Firewall on my WordFence plugin on my WordPress site! It says it was successfully enabled and everything. * Thank y’all for helping talk me through it. * –etcbbu * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Really want to use “Extended Protection”, but scared about .htaccess file..](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/#post-9629665) * **EDIT: I enabled “Show hidden files” in Filezilla, and found it** * ..because, I am logged into my site on FileZilla, and I cannot see the .htaccess file sitting *anywhere* ..? * **EDIT: I enabled “Show hidden files” in Filezilla, and found it** - This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/). - This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Really want to use “Extended Protection”, but scared about .htaccess file..](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/#post-9629639) * [@wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/) , Thank you so much for your insight. * I did not do anything described in that guide, because, no, I do not want to do what the beginning of that guide says: * `Some people want their WordPress URL to coincide with their website's root ( e.g. http://example.com) but they don't want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory.` * I really just want the entire blog site to be handled from * /mywebsite/subdirectory/ * And that’s just fine. * So is it the .htaccess file in * /subdirectory/ * that WordFence will make me back-up, and that I will replace with that backed- up version, in case the Firewall thing makes a change that throws off my site? * –etcbbu - This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Really want to use “Extended Protection”, but scared about .htaccess file..](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/#post-9627953) * See, this is what I mean, because now one person says * “The .htaccess file should be in the same directory as wp-config.php.” * BUT another person says, * “..should be the same directory where you have WordPress files uploaded (like: wp-admin, wp-includes, wp-content, wp-config.php, etc…).” * And so, this is why I say I am not sure? These are not the same directory for me. One would be * /mywebsite/subdirectory/ * And another would be * /mywebsite/subdirectory/wp-config/ * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Really want to use “Extended Protection”, but scared about .htaccess file..](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-want-to-use-extended-protection-but-scared-about-htaccess-file/#post-9627334) * Ok, so it will be in the same folder as where the three main WordPress folders are contained? Like, in the exact same folder alongside of * wp-admin wp-content wp-includes index.php license.txt readme.html etc. etc. … * ? * Because on *my* WordPress site, it is not installed on my PRIMARY root folder of my entire website, but is installed in a sub-folder called * [http://www.mywebsite.com/subfolder/](http://www.mywebsite.com/subfolder/) * So, I would only be dealing with the .htaccess file that is in that * /subfolder/ * correct? This is the place where * wp-admin wp-content wp-includes index.php license.txt readme.html etc. etc. … * are, for my site. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Best way to back-up *BASIC* WP site?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/#post-9624493) * I’m very interested in running the “Extended Protection” option of this “WordFence” security plugin. But I am a little scared of allowing it to manipulate my .htaccess file of my entire web-space. I know that it says it forces you to download your web-space’s current .htaccess file before it lets you enable its “Extended Protection” mode which then updates the .htaccess file, but I am not confident that I would know the exact spot on my web-space to put up the previously-version, before- WordFence-manipulated .htaccess file, in case this plugin just completely wreaked havoc on our web-space and something crashed after it manipulated the .htaccesss file. * Would I just use an FTP client to put the previously-version, before-WordFence- manipulated .htaccess file on the public root top-level directory, if something did go awry after letting WordFence manipulate my .htaccess file to enable its“ Extended Protection” mode? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Best way to back-up *BASIC* WP site?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/#post-9621297) * Ok, since I don’t trust that whatever hacked my site won’t be somehow left in the code if I were to do a backup and restore, I’m just gonna obliterate the MySQL database on my web-server, delete every single file in my entire * /blog/ * sub-directory; start a new MySQL database, open a new sub-folder on my web-space, install a new WordPress Theme, re-edit the Theme to look a certain way, and re- publish all 27 Posts. * Can anyone recommend the best Virus/Protection/Firewall/Hacker-protection I could install that would be most helpful in the future, to help protect against being hacked? * I don’t see how it happened. I used the default Password that WP automatically generated for the main Admin account whenever I first installed this WP installation; those passwords are ridiculously long with many different types of characters, and I always kept my WP version up-to-date, and I had Akismet installed and kept* it* up-to-date, too. * Thanks for helping me think through this. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Best way to back-up *BASIC* WP site?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/#post-9621163) * Because since I only have 27 Posts, I am ok with just manually re-doing those 28 Posts, that doeesn’t bother me. All I do is copy/paste some text from some Microsoft Word documents. * Will doing JUST the backup of the WordPress side of things keep my “look”, my Theme settings, my “Category settings”, my top-menu settings and all of that jazz, or no? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Best way to back-up *BASIC* WP site?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/#post-9621154) * I don’t intend to back-up the MySQL database…I was going to obliterate it. Is that not possible? I definitely would have to backup the MySQL database too? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Best way to back-up *BASIC* WP site?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/) * Thread Starter [etcbbu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etcbbu/) * (@etcbbu) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-way-to-back-up-basic-wp-site/#post-9621149) * Am I able to use either of these two methods even though I am going to obliterate this current MySQL database on my server that I have set up right now, start a completely new MySQL database, install a new fresh installation of WP that is going then interface with this new MySQL database? * Will using either this “BackWPup” or the built-in “WordPress Backups” method be able to restore everything, in this way? 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