Michelle Panulla

Hi!

There are two possible questions you’re asking and I’m not quite sure which. The first is just making the links show as black text. The second is removing the link altogether and leaving the titles as text-only.

I’ll assume the first and if I’m wrong, please say so.

This is a CSS edit. Using FTP or similar, open your CSS file in an editor. I took the liberty of using the Firebug plugin for Firefox (highly recommended for debugging) and see that your CSS file is located at http://www.michaelgaither.com/home/wp-content/themes/michaelgaither/michaelgaither/style.css .

Because line 36 has the color for links listed as “a:link” it is overruling the later style on line 66 for links in the h2 to be black. You should be able to fix this by removing the “:link” on line 36, so that your style reads

a {
color:#435F97;
text-decoration:underline;
}

This will allow the later style rule. You could also add the “:link” to line 66 if you wanted to go that way instead.

If you want the underline to go away, too, you can add a rule after this that reads

h2 a {
text-decoration: none;
}

Good luck!

I’ve done the same thing in the past. I had to access my database directly on my hosting server to change the URL in the database. If you go to your hosting company’s control center, you should be able to log in to your database and will likely be able to access it via phpMyAdmin.

If you have phpMyAdmin available, log in with the username and password in your wp-config.php file. On the left nav bar, click on your database to select it. Once it loads, click on your options table (the default name for this is “wp_options”. Once your table info loads, click the “Browse” tab at the top. You should see your url near the top of the listings.

Click the pencil icon to edit it to the correct URL and you should be all set.

I’ve had the same issue, and believe there is a back door somewhere in my client’s WordPress installation. I installed the WordPress File Monitor plugin after the initial hacking, and it alerted me today that more malicious files were added yesterday, despite removing all malicious code previously.

I also discovered that two plugins were installed and activated that I did not put there: “Redirect” for redirecting via custom fields and “Search & Replace” for replacing strings in the database.

I’m biting the bullet and doing a fresh WordPress installation, along with repeating all the password changes, etc. I’ve already done.