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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [AdPush] [Plugin: Google AdSense Plugin] Ads won't displayI have my Id entered correctly in the plugin (just the numeric part, not pub-) but ads still do not display above the footer, I just get a yellow box.
I also have a widget where I pasted an ad from Adsense, and this has the full “ca-pub-” whereas your plugin only shows “pub-“.
Could this be the problem?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: eval and base64_decode found! Is my website hacked?It definitely sounds like you were hacked.
Manually editing the infected php scripts several times on my site resulted in them being re-infected within 30 minutes.
I recommend taking full database backups, as well as taking screen shots and making lists of your plugins etc.
Try exporting the posts/pages etc as well – you might need multiple forms of backup to restore.
Be sure to disable all users as well, except Admin, so nobody else can log in.
When you have saved everything, take your site(s) offline, clean up the database (there are posts on how to do this – sorry I don’t have them handy), and try a fresh install from scratch.
Change your passwords too!!!
Good Luck.I had that message the other day when adding a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. I had the url incorrect for the sitemap, so Google got the 404 page and read that, hence the “HTML not XML” error.
Might be the answer to the problem.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How To Identify Changes To TwentyEleven Theme In Latest UpdateSounds like a good idea, about time I installed an offline version of WordPress.
Last thing you want to do is to upset a live site.
I am pretty confident when I get WordPress updates, but theme updates, well that could upset anything.
Google Webmaster Tools is still flagging these pages, frustrating but I assume it’s not a problem.
Bing however has one of my sites flagged as containing Malware, when Google doesn’t, neither does Sucuri, and I can’t see anything.
Wish I could sort both of these issues out. Meantime, the sitemap generator is great.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Media Library Rebuild After Site MoveThat works, because you are taking the complete SQL database from your old domain to the new one.
I did that on the last of my sites that I transferred from one domain to the other, and wish I had done it for all of them.
Unfortunately by exporting only the Pages/Posts etc and importing them to your new host, you lose a lot of information.
Pros and cons… If your old site got hacked, the database might contain malware, so exporting only the posts etc is probably safer. Still need to check everything though. However losing a large media library is frustrating, especially as you still have the images.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Media Library Rebuild After Site MoveThe data ought to still be in the database, that’s the frustrating thing. You would think that to rebuild the Media Library would not be such a hard task. I wish I knew how it was structured and was a bit more knowledgeable in PHP programming because it would be a good project to work on.
Problem identified, it’s a tracking image that is used on a link on one of my pages. You can’t see it on the page, but the sitemap generator picks it up.
I removed the image from the page, need to update the link in any case.
I agree, and I can’t see them in there either.
Off to do some more detailed checking.“Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt.”
I am getting the same warnings showing up from my sitemaps, and unfortunately Webmaster Tools does not show the url that the error appears on.
It does however show the first part of the blocked urls, which all appear to be affiliate links (Commission Junction etc).
Examples as follows:
http://www.tqlkg.com/6s79nswkqo9DAGFGFE9BADIHHBG
http://www.awltovhc.com/55108wquiom7B8EDEDC798BGFF9EI don’t have anything in my Robots.txt that excludes these, as far as I can see, so not sure what is causing the messages.
— Edited to add —
WOT (http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tqlkg.com) does have reports on tqlkg.com (part of Commission Junction) that say it’s listed on Spamcop and hpHosts. Could be that as part of the new Panda updates, Google is blocking certain sites from being indexed, so the warning message is erroneous. Just a theory…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Media Library Rebuild After Site MoveThanks David.
Just reading up on Add From Server, it sounds like this allows you to add files to the media library from the server, in which case the files are added again right?
My files are already in the media library folders, but not in the database tables. So, the images still load for existing posts and pages, becauee the links are still ok, however the images don’t appear in the media library if you search for them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Media libraryIt seems Larry that all attempts to try and determine how and where the media links are stored in the database results in people telling you that the files are not stored there, which we know!!!
I moved my site to a new host, have the Uploads folder and images, and they all appear in the posts/pages, but not in the Media library. It would be nice to rebuild it, and I have the original database, so I can extract the data – if only I know where it is.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Error Trying To Change Fullscreen BG ImageI changed the Bulletproof Security settings so I was unprotected, and could then get into the option without the 500 error, however instead of showing me a list of images, or an option to upload, inside the small window the site main home page was displaying.
I am thinking that between WP Super Cache and Bulletproof Security there is a problem, not sure what.
Thanks for the help, I think this is going to take me a while to figure out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problems After 3.1.4 Update – Sites DownA late add on…
My domains all got hacked on this host in the last month and a nasty bot was installed.
I tried multiple times to remove it and within hours it was back.
In the end I had to delete all the WordPress code for all sites, and re-install one by one.
I am wondering if these problems 6+ months ago were when the base64 scripts were injected and the problems did not become evident immediately.
So a warning to anyone who reads this – if your site begins to act strangely all of a sudden, try right clicking and view Page Source. make sure there are no strange scripts showing up, especially in Index.php files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My site is hacked with MW JS Depack?I have a very similar problem, and this code has infected all my sites on the host, even changing .html files. It’s in the Theme and Plugin files, even Akismet, and in some of the .php files it occurs up to 50 times!
I changed the passwords (on the host manually), removed all users except the 3 necessary ones in the WP database, deleted the Theme, installed a basic theme, re-installed WordPress, removed the malicious code from all the files, checked for backdoors, changed the WP security keys etc etc etc. Within hours everything was infected yet again.
I have looked under TimThumb as it sounds similar, but I don’t use this plugin, and the code looks different to the examples. I am seeing more sites on Google with the signature of this code, just search for “v532b5” and see how many come up!
I would love to know how to get rid of this, and hope my database isn’t infected too, as I don’t want to lose 3 years worth of blogging.