Rob Cubbon

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MAMP seems fine. I can open the Start page, I can do the PHPinfo page, I can create a database in PHPMyAdmin. 

But if I create a index.html with “hello” in it and put it into MAMP/htdocs/index.html I get: “The requested URL /MAMP/htdocs/ was not found on this server.”

Similarly WordPress doesn’t work.

I preferences for MAMP I have:
Apache port: 8888; MySQL port: 8889
Apache: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs

and the URL is localhost:8888/MAMP/htdocs

Well done, hopefully that’ll help somebody else. 🙂

SEO is simple, you need quality content and quality links. SEO companies make it complicated at a price! (my 2 cents)

Thank you so much, Esmi. I’d looked at Twenty Ten but not looked at Twenty Eleven but you still changed the code a little bit which I wouldn’t have been able to do.

Mercifully, I didn’t have to change the page titles as they already have running page numbers in them.

However, this works if you want to have a heading with a page number in it after page one.

<h1>My Blog<?php if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 ) echo ' | Page ' . sprintf( __( '%s'), max( $paged, $page ) ); ?><h1>

This spits out

My Blog
My Blog | Page 2
My Blog | Page 3
My Blog | Page 4
etc.

Thanks, esmi

You’re right, Patrick, the blacklisting has been lifted less than 24 hours after the request – I’m really impressed!

I have changed all passwords and hardened the site in every way I know, thank you 🙂

Hello Mickey, thanks again for all your help and I’d just like to tell you where I am.

I’ve copied all the files via FTP. And exported the DB with PHPMyAdmin (this was a new version of PHPMyAdmin so I’m not sure if I did this right but I have an SQL file.

As a matter of interest I’m not sure if it was the TimThumb vulnerability as I’ve checked the WP files and they are riddled with eval code and 1px by 1px iframes pointing to gogofly dot cjb dot net which is a “top domain distributing malware” according to Sucuri. And there wasn’t the tell-tale signs in the config.php of TimThumb vulnerability. But it may have been a combination of things. The passwords weren’t very good and it was WP 3.2.1.

Anyway, I’ve deleted all the files and the DB and created a new WP clean install (this was necessary as the person has lost the WP passwords and the email address that originally created it).

So what I’d like to do now is to import the information in the old DB into the new DB as it has all old text, pages and image paths.

How do you do this? I have tried importing it into the new DB via the Import function in PHPMyAdmin and it just stops WP working – you get a white screen of death. I presume because the usernames and passwords are different between the old and new DBs?

I’ve googled around about this but I haven’t come up with anything – I will keep at it though.

Thank you so much for this help, Mickey.

I might be being naive here. But can I copy all the text from the pages. Save the theme files, deleting the TimThumb script. Delete all the WP files and others on the server. Delete the DB. Set up a new WordPress install with a new DB. And re-install old theme with new TimThumb script.

Would this be sensible?

Thank you, deepbevel, that works.

But I don’t get it. How come that works and the widget doesn’t. Surely it’s the same php in the widget?

No… that didn’t work. I’ve reinstalled WordPress – the English version and still the CF7 forms in French work and in English they don’t work!