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In that it’s occurring with 3 separate blogs, and assuming they’re all on the same server you might want to check with your host. Maybe someone else here has another suggestion. Sounds like a strange problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Am I being used for spam?Hi Canned_Heat,
Generally the email addresses you see with the .ru are going to be spammers. They are not always looking to leave spam. Sometimes they’re looking for a potential door into your website to break your database, leave urls that go to their sites hidden in your template files or other files, use scripts to gain access etc. Who knows what all they are up to!You want to set up a line of defense to not only reduce the amount of time you’ll have to put into fighting them off manually, but especially to help protect your site from getting hacked. Not all of the people who register as a user are looking to leave spam. Some are looking for the opportunity to do far worse.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: AVH First Defense Against Spam CompatibilityAfter doing some further research, it appears that since I’m using BadBehavior, with a Project HoneyPot http:BL access key that AVH wouldn’t provide me with any additional benefits? Does anyone know?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Limit the Page Titles that Show in the Top – Motion ThemeHi haydenhancock,
Thanks for offering a hand. My site is linkandblog (a dot com).
Forgot to add this…
Is there supposed to be a mouse hover underline or something when someone hovers over a ‘tag’.Okay, there’s nothing wrong with me – lol.
In number 1 above, I meant to say ‘above’ the header, in reference to where the page links are. Thanks again.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploaded pg to FTP but doesn’t show on blog.The document I’m trying to upload is not an image it is a page that I want to show as to why I’m doing this blog.
If it’s only a text document, and if you don’t want the content as a blog post, then why not do it as a ‘page’? If it’s information as to why you’re doing the blog, it sounds like content for an ‘About’ page. You access ‘Pages’ to create them from the left menu in your admin panel.
It depends on what you’re using for cache. If you’re using a cache plugin like WP Supercache, you would need to click on “Settings” and then on the cache program. Then disable it from their. You might also find this helpful:
http://codex.wordpress.org/I_Make_Changes_and_Nothing_HappensForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Dashboard all FunnyDid you contact your host to determine if they were doing something, or did your site break?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Am I being used for spam?New users are registering all the time, but it seems obvious the names and email addresses are fake.
They probably are fake. If you determine a user is fake you want to delete those users profiles. Taking it a step further, you can also investigate their ip’s to see if their ip is linked to spamming, email harvesting, dictionary attacks etc by doing Google searches.
At a minimum defense, you should be using some plugins like Bad Behavior, Akismet, WP Spam free etc., even then it’s not a perfect solution to keep them all out. There’s also Ask Apache Password protect (you may need to check with your host to see if it’s compatible with their server configuration).
Simply requiring individuals to register in order to comment will not keep the spammers and hackers out! By requiring registration, you’ll probably discourage far more legit people and comments, than you will the spammers and potential hackers. Registration requirement is not meant to really protect your site much from potential threats.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Dashboard all FunnyYour host may be doing some work on the server. Other than that, are you running into any error messages?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to display a specific pageAssuming you’re speaking of a ‘page’ and not a ‘post’…
To have a link for a page show up on the front end, it may depend on your blog template as to where it will show up. Some templates may have a menu at the top with links to each page. Also, look in your ‘widget’ area for the ‘page’ widget. You may need to move that to the sidebar or other area to have the links to your pages show up. Hope that’s what you were needing!
When you go to make some changes you may need to disable your blog cache from the control panel, until you’re done testing your changes, and then enable the cache again when you’re done. Otherwise, you may not see the changes take place on the front end. Hope that’s all it is, since it’s an easy work-around.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image Linking. How did TechCrunch Solve this?I wonder if they’re using a plugin, or if it has to do with the way the theme is coded – that is if I understood what you are asking and referring to.
If you look at the source of one of the images, it reads like this:
http://www.theirsiteurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/header_feature_724_1269694311.jpgfrom an image on the front home page, and then when you click through the image has the normal file path you would see from the WP upload file, like this:
http://www.theirsiteurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image-620x362.jpgIt’s interesting, but not sure how they’re doing it other than a plugin or theme feature?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: current page item not workingMy first guess would be a theme issue. You might want to check with thesis. You could test it by selecting the default WordPress theme, and see if they show correctly. If they do with the default theme, but not with your other theme, then it’s probably a theme issue.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploaded pg to FTP but doesn’t show on blog.uploaded to public_html/wp-content/uploads/Freedom1clickaway.txt
An image shouldn’t have a .txt file extension. It would most likely either be a .gif or .jpg. So, the upload file path should look something like this:
http://www.yourblogurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/imagename.jpgIf you’re wanting the image to show up in a blog post, use the blog post text editor to select the image, which can be selected directly off your computer and loaded into your blog. Hope that helps to answer what you need.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Having blog posts appear on facebook page/feed.Although you wouldn’t be able to have it submit photos, you could consider Google Feedburner, and select the option to have your feed in Twitter and Facebook. Each time you write a new blog post it will automatically post onto Twitter and Facebook.