kmp2
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Wait! It’s happening again. You think I’m crazy.
It’s happening NOW to the English version of the site.
I just went over there to consult a couple of footnotes, and the PAGE would not scroll down, it was frozen, the whole site was frozen, nothing would scroll, but THIS time, the DewDrop designed scrollbars were visible. Hit page-down all you like, nothing moved.
I then went into plugins and deactivated DewDrop. I also deactivated Lightspeed cache.
Came back out, hit page down, nothing doing. No default scrollbars anywhere. But I had already accessed the English site an hour ago to check something, and it was not frozen. I did not touch the design or the plugins, I just verified some text of mine. And now, an hour later, the whole site is frozen, and has no default scrollbars. This has to be hacking.
Ok, let me try to straighten this mess out.
When I logged in on 29 March, I found no scrollbars on the site, and Dewdrop had been deleted from the “installed plugins” page. I was worried it might be hacking, that’s why I asked, ‘where do scrollbars come from?’
I spent 5-6 hours trying to figure out how Dewdrop could have been deleted, and whether code had been injected somewhere to shut the scrollbars off.
Then, suddenly, after a lot of reuploads of the site and other backups, the defaukt scrollbars reappeared. By then, I had reinstalled Dewdrop, so I now activated it, and the default scrollbars seemed to disappear again.
I just had another look. It seems that Dewdrop defaulted to a style with a tiny scrollbar that was hidden behind the web site header was invisible in the margin, and it looked like the scrollbars were gone, but in fact they had been restyled to the point they disappeared.
I have just now restyled the scrollbars back to the way they were before I found Dewdrop deleted, so they match the English site, and they are showing up again.
Conclusion: how did Dewdrop get deleted in the first place, I didn’t do it. I had no reason to do it, I wasn’t working on the site design at the time, I’d been working on the translation. So, we’re back to my worry that it’s a hacker. I changed the admin pass when I migrated the site to this host. Nobody had the password but me. Nobody could get into the site but me… and the host. So now I’m worried that the host deleted the DewDrop plugin. I’ve had a previous host delete a wp-avatar plugin in another site which eliminated the profile pic (I don’t use gravatar). So, now, do I have another invader and do I have to move my sites again?
Sorry, way past my bed time, here’s the url:
Answering @mdshak from https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-scrollbars-come-from/
I’ve reactivated Dewdrop plugin and the site scrollbars have disappeared again. I presume the plugin has to be active to be debugged. Thanks very much.
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In reply to: Where do scrollbars come from?Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
I just left a long forum question over at Support for Dewdrop Scrollbar plugin.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dewdrop-plugin-deletes-itself-and-scrollbars-gone-from-site/
After 4-5 hours of testing of all kinds, the default scrollbars suddenly reappeared, but only as long as Dewdrop is deactivated. It’s deactivated right now. But when I first found the problem, the scrollbars were gone, and the plugin was gone, as if it had deleted itself!
UPDATE:
I have just discovered that by deactivating BuddyBoss Platform free plugin (obtained from the BuddyBoss web site), Advanced File Manager starts to work again. I’m using BuddyBoss Version 2.5.40. I would really hate to lose my File Manager. Is there a work-around for this? Thanks in advance.
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In reply to: [Web Fonts Loader] Web Fonts Loader eliminates all text decorationYes, Montserrat does have regular, italics, bold, etc. I knew that from a theme I tested out which has Montserrat as an option with all available modes of text decoration. I didn’t keep that theme, but the font looks good in other themes; so I installed your web font loader in order to have it elsewhere.
As mentioned in my original support post, however, your web fonts loader eliminates the text decoration. Here’s Montserrat at google fonts with all the variations:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat
What’s the point of the “Pro” version? I don’t need “guidance”, I need Montserrat as provided by google.
Alrighty. I installed one, now I’m afraid to activate because it says smart crop. I don’t want to crop my images. Will it auto-crop everything the minute I turn it on? Thank you.
Hi, thanks for your reply. But I don’t want my images replaced with WebP/AVIF.
Hi.
Thanks for your quick reply.
I’ve just installed it in my Peepso site (in development) and it occurs to me that it may alter all my headers, which have to be wide to conform to my theme. This is my second site where I’ve installed it; so now I hope I haven’t shrunk all my headers in my first site.
I would strongly suggest adding two options to this plugin, to be safe:
1. Reset back to original image sizes
2. Exclude specified images (headers in particular that must be very wide, and backgrounds for another ).
Thanks for your time.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by kmp2.
You know, I just realized that something weird is going on with my website. I have others with lots of images, the attachment pages don’t show up in a search on these other sites, nor do the images themselves.
Perhaps the fact they’re showing up (unwanted) in this one site is due to another plugin or an earlier version of wordpress. I seem to have a headache ahead of me to try to test and solve this problem.
Thank you for your time, I appreciate it.
Hello. They are images I uploaded the normal way into the media folder directly in the wordpress dashboard, or by adding an image into a post while editing in code mode.
The images all have attachment pages.
Some images are necessarily duplicates, because I use them with captions in some posts or galleries and without captions in others. But they all have titles. And the titles appear on the attachment pages, and their titles are often similar to post titles. Search is picking them all up along with the posts, which is confusing as you can’t easily tell an image from a post in a search result, and you have to sort through half a dozen similar results to find the post. Really a waste of time.
I found some kind of plugin, I can’t even remember what it is at this point, to suppress the attachment pages. But that didn’t work, the search now just picks up the images all by themselves and gives them titles in the search results!
I wish there was a way to globally remove images from search. Or even better, have a separate search just for images.Thanks for your time.
Let me answer my question myself. I found the answer at the Max Mega Menu web site (though I had to squint to read the pale grey font over there).
https://www.megamenu.com/documentation/menu-item-limit/
That page explains why there is a limit of about 90 items on a wordpress menu, and installing the max mega menu plugin won’t change that. The page goes on to kindly explain how to increase the limit by adding bits of code here and there. Thank you. I’ll try it after a good sleep.
Especially since I’ve realized that I have another web site that I had better do it to, which also has a big menu that may explode any minute.
Too bad someone doesn’t invent a plugin to fix this by auto-adding the necessary snippets.
Thank you for the advice, though. Much appreciated. The lack of this information actually caused me to change web hosts a few months ago when the menu on the same site blew up the first time. Too bad web hosts won’t just tell the truth about it, might save them a loss of business, as it looks like they have poor servers, or vandalism, and the truth would spare you from moving out, and them from losing a customer.
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In reply to: Top menu – half of it suddenly ripped out & goneA further note. If PHP version is 7.4 or higher (but less than 8.0), and it suddenly is changed to a lower version, like 7.2.34, could that rip up the menu?
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In reply to: Top menu – half of it suddenly ripped out & goneThe host has told me on this point: “The cpanel php memory limit is set to 256MB ram.” However, I wonder if the RAM had been suddenly reduced temporarily, and that blew the menu to bits.
Fact is, it’s not the first time the menu of this site has been blown to bits. A few months ago, the site was on a different host. I activated PHP 8.0 on that host because there’s a companion site (Peepso) that needs it. However, the PHP change affected the other site, too, and shortly afterward, my menu tore itself up and disappeared over there; a huge chunk of the footer menu also disappeared. I move out of there to the current host, repaired my site, and months later, surprise, surprise, the menu is ripped up again. So, you mentioned it likely has to do with PHP. What other aspect of PHP could cause menus to be destroyed?
I showed the current host the big list of “ID” items in the Menus dashboard, no comment from the host. The host will not suggest what might have happened. So, if I now have to spend days repairing my site, it can blow up again without warning, which is very frustrating. I’m just trying to find out what went wrong, to avoid the problem in future, including the prospect of PHP RAM suddenly dropping even temporarily.
Thanks for your time.