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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] Mail not being sentI’m having the same problem. The form works, and provides the proper confirmation message on submit, but the email never arrives. I’ve checked the email configuration in CF7. I ran the validation and it says all forms are working. I installed Flamingo to save messages, and the submitted message is appearing in Flamingo, but the email is nowhere to be found.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strategy for Changing Domains w/o Losing Traffic?Thanks jleuze.
I’m trying to rebrand my current blog, while minimizing the SEO damage. If I just redirect the domain, I’ll kill my SEO ranking. I’ll also lose ranking if I make them totally separate blogs, as the legacy blog will no longer have fresh content. I don’t think there’s any way to totally avoid taking a hit, I’m just trying to figure out a strategy to minimize it.
1) I need to make sure my old legacy links still resolve to the archive pages.
2) I’d like to keep it in one install of WordPress, for the reasons you state.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorRESOLVED.
Thanks for the suggestions. The concern about someone hacking into my system to disrupt it didn’t seem to fit, given the exact regularity of the problem, but it did lead me to change all my passwords, which led to the culprit. SyncBackSE.
I was correct that we weren’t using a database backup plug-in. What I didn’t realize is that we were using SyncBack to back up the site and database, and it was misconfigured to back up from, rather than to, a set of backup files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorOkay, this is odd and disturbing.
Yesterday I upgraded to 2.1.2. Upgrade went fine, everything came across. Hunky-dory. I changed the admin password, locked down the .htaccess file and reset permissions across all directories.
This morning, my site is blown up again. This time, more seemingly random files are simply missing. In the root directory, cache.php, functions.php, users.php, and a handful of others… simply gone. Same scenario in the admin folder.
I’m waiting for my sys-admin to come in on Monday to start going through the log files, but in each of the folders, I can see that many files were modified at exactly the same time, at 2:06 am. I’m not running any automated chron job for backup on this site. Is there any other chron function within WP, or are there any hacks anyone knows of that revisit and attack daily?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorIt’s not one of the compromised versions–but I’m upgrading today anyway.
Can someone point me to a concise instruction on how file permissions should be set across the install?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorHappened again. This time, not only was the site blown up, but the .css file and the homepage file were totally missing from my theme directory, and the theme was “deselected”.
The two blogs are not related. Both are running at the same level, on individual instances of WP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorHappened again tonight. The site was fine when I left it at about 10pm. I checked back at 3am (sleepless night) and low and behold, the site was all blown up again, and when I “updated permalink structure”, everything went back to normal.
I thought maybe I was running the Chron db backup that I run another WP install, and maybe that was doing it. But I checked and I don’t even have it installed yet.
I run another instance of WP on the same server–same version of WP–and I don’t have this problem.
Ideas, please…!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent: Serious and Recurring Permalinks ErrorI haven’t noticed any changes to the .htaccess file. I’ve got the mod-rewrite code, and a permanent redirect for my domain.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^motivelab\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.motivelab.com/$1 [R=301,L]