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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Bad Bluehost.com experience>why does WordPress promote such a miserable company?
It’s partly because of affiliate money, I suppose (I suppose).
We’ve switched hosting companies 4 to 5 times. We only pay $94.50 or whatever a year. There is no best web hosting company for that price. You just have to know how to take care of things because not many web hosting support representatives are knowledgeable. Bluehost/HostMonster… Oh, boy… They are definitely not the best one according to my experience. I can tell you some bad stories about them. But the thing is none of them is perfect. Neither am I. It’s like teaching. I used to teach statistics to college students at Big XII school. No matter how enthusiastic you are and make efforts, there are always students who go against you. If some people say Bluehost is the best, there is always another group of people who disagree.
So my advice is stick to the current one. Whichever the web hosting company is, it won’t make much difference. We were fed up with HostMonster, so we moved to Lunarpages. Lunarpages does drive me crazy as well. Again, I can tell you really bad stories about them. In the end, the only person you can rely on is YOU. No matter how Lunarpages drives us crazy, we are unlikely to move again because switching takes too much trouble. Midphase… They did drive us crazy before as well.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: how to restore my deleted comments>it would be great if we could undelete them!!!
I suppose that your best chance is to contact your web host and ask them to retrieve data from a backup tape. It’ll probably cost you around $100 with no warrantee.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..It won’t be very difficult to achieve the goal, depending on where and how to display the total hours. Since it cannot be difficult, it will be better if you learn how to write basic PHP programs for yourself.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..Ahh… You mean, 3½h, 5h like that?
You definitely need to create a custom field or a separate table. There can be no common WP plug-in for that for sure.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HACKED! – HELP!>What else do I need to do so it doesn’t happen again?
Search forums for ‘hack.’ The only person you can rely on is yourself.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..Ask Google about ‘WordPress Plugin: WP Relative Post Time 1.0.’
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..Never mind. I’ve made a simple plugin. I’ll release it within 24 hours.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..1. Convert the current time and the comment time into time stamps.
2. Calculate the difference.
3. Convert the difference back into time.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Building log hour counter..‘comment_date’ or ‘comment_date_gmt’ field under ‘wp_comments’ table
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Domain Name Expired – Unable to renew>Terrible advice (“Talk to the old domain registrar.”)
Ohh… What is your suggestion, then? His or her old registrar holds the domain and will continue to hold it. In order to transfer the domain, he or she still needs an Auth Code from them.
>Automattic
What are you talking about?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comments Word-WrapIt’s not the matter of WP. If you have a continuous string of something like 200 letters, since it’ll be considered as a single word, you cannot break it without using ‘chunk_split’ or similar.
That is not going to be done easily at all. Accessing WP database with PHP will be easy to extract usernames. But passwords are encrypted with an MD5 scheme with salt. SMF also saves passwords with an MD5 scheme and a field called ‘passwordSalt.’ That is, you have decode passwords from WP at first and then encrypt them for SMF to finally save them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Malware Installed on WP sites>Your files should NOT be writable by the webserver user.
With all due respect, most major web hosting companies like LunarP and HMonster don’t allow shared server users to set the CHMOD to lower than 644 or 600. I don’t know for small ones, though.
Do you still have a config file?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Lost username AND passwordUse phpMyAdmin or equivalent to edit the table named wp_users. Find an administrative account. Then manually change its e-mail address to yours. And use those administrative username and e-mail address to have a new password issued.