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# vrocks

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Product Review Lite] plugin is virused ?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-virused/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-virused/#post-12916477)
 * Issue is resolved but you must find and remove entries in your database.
    If 
   using phpMyAdmin to edit your DB, login and run this SQL command: `SELECT * FROM
   wp_postmeta WHERE meta_value LIKE '%onerror="eval%'`
 * And then delete all entries with it.
 * You may have to modify the name of wp_postmeta if you added a table prefix.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/).
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Block specific referrer or agent to enter url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-specific-referrer-or-agent-to-enter-url/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-specific-referrer-or-agent-to-enter-url/#post-11330114)
 * Who? Chinese black-hat SEO teams
    What? Use your search form hoping you will 
   have some kind of recent searches list so they can get free backlinks. When? 
   All day long. Where? All of your blogs. Why? Because black-hats are always looking
   for links.
 * This fails with this plugin because it doesn’t create a list of searches without
   them having matched content in your posts.
 * How to block this traffic? Put this into your .htaccess file:
 *     ```
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/search/(.+)$ [OR]
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} s=(.+) [NC]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} HEAD
       RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]
       ```
   
 * What it does?
    The first two lines ask if this is a search and the third line
   asks if they are using a HEAD request. The final line blocks them if 1 or 2 is
   matched along with 3.
 * Googlebot does NOT use HEAD requests and does not use your search form. Googlebot
   doesn’t submit any forms. This is why you don’t get spam comments from Googlebot
   submitting it.
 * When you interact with a form there are only two ways to pass your query to the
   form: GET and POST. So no need for anyone to use your search with a HEAD request.
   Block them!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Product Review Lite] 3.4.4 breaks retail price](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/3-4-4-breaks-retail-price/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/3-4-4-breaks-retail-price/#post-10498110)
 * [http://prntscr.com/k73l6q](http://prntscr.com/k73l6q)
 * You really cannot miss it. Do you guys even use your own plugins? How do you 
   miss something like this for so long?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Product Review Lite] Price not shown bold](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/price-not-shown-bold/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/price-not-shown-bold/#post-10498101)
 * No. This does NOT fix the issue. Not only is it smaller, lighter, it is also 
   not floating to the right.
 * It would seem that you guys would have figured this out a long time ago and fixed
   it!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Super Cache] “Rewrite rules must be updated” message on WordPress 4.9](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewrite-rules-must-be-updated-message-on-wordpress-4-9/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewrite-rules-must-be-updated-message-on-wordpress-4-9/#post-9688466)
 * Same here… and I don’t want to hear it from a senior fellow who says we should
   all create our own threads. Why? So we can have an entire page of them?
 * I also noticed that I cannot effect change to the mode the plugin is in.
 * If it is on, I cannot turn it off. If it is off, I cannot turn it on.
 * It will say it worked, but reload the page and it is set to whatever it was set
   to before checking/unchecking the box.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[Suffusion] Theme not in repository?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-in-repository/)
 *  Thread Starter [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-in-repository/#post-7508367)
 * Sad, WordPress… just sad.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Search Meter] Newer is not working but older version is fine.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newer-is-not-working-but-older-version-is-fine/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newer-is-not-working-but-older-version-is-fine/#post-6538808)
 * You have a code error in search-meter.php on line #321
 * The Code:
    `$search_terms,`
 * What it should be:
    `$hit_count,`
 * You are trying to pass a string into a prepared statement that is configured 
   to accept digits. Also the MYSQL column is configured as INT. So it would appear
   you mistyped that variable when changing to a prepared statement.
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Disable XML-RPC Pingback] Doesn't work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1044/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1044/#post-7994158)
 * [@zoxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoxee/) Plugin works great. You,
   sir, do not!
 * Check your brain for malware.
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Sweet Captcha] sweetCaptcha Support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweetcaptcha-support/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweetcaptcha-support/#post-7972496)
 * Best thing to do is to install: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/)
   
   And avoid the popups
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Sweet Captcha] Injects Popup Ads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/injects-popup-ads/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/injects-popup-ads/#post-7972240)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Sweet Captcha] SweetCaptcha Injecting Pop Up Ads on Purpose](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweetcaptcha-injecting-pop-up-ads-on-purpose/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sweetcaptcha-injecting-pop-up-ads-on-purpose/#post-6211706)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha/)
   
   Does a better job and no popups
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Colorful Tag Cloud] WP Colorful Tag Cloud not working with WordPress 4.2x](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-colorful-tag-cloud-not-working-with-wordpress-42x/)
 *  Thread Starter [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-colorful-tag-cloud-not-working-with-wordpress-42x/#post-6124273)
 * Not sure how this broke… But I did fix it.
 * For some reason this code was injected into the query for this plugin:
 * `t.name = 'SidebarTop'`
 * This causes zero rows of tags to be returned because none of the tags will have
   a name of SidebarTop.
 * The fix:
 * On line 419 there is code to package up the array that will feed the query:
    `
   $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );`
 * On the line below it we can unset the name key in the array to remove it from
   the query by inserting this code on line 420.
 * `unset($args['name']);`
 * And all is well again.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Can't Drag Widgets to Inactive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-drag-widgets-to-inactive/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-drag-widgets-to-inactive/page/2/#post-6081748)
 * I love it when people say we need 1000 posts about the same issue. We don’t. 
   We just need this one so that developers can see, oh, yeah, it is happening to
   lots of people across lots of platforms which means IT IS A CODING ISSUE with
   4.2.1 and 4.2.2.
 * I have this same problem on 190 sites with different domains, hosting companies,
   server configurations and whatnot.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Core update to 4.1.1 not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-update-to-411-not-working/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-update-to-411-not-working/#post-5807401)
 * Same here.
 * Tried disabling plugins. Using twentyfourteen theme. Nothing.
 * Directories are owned by my account in group www-data.
    Apache runs as www-data
   in group www-data so manual upgrade is required and never had a problem before.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Same blog, two different sites](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-blog-two-different-sites/)
 *  [vrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrocks/)
 * (@vrocks)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-blog-two-different-sites/#post-5282827)
 * Not possible without one grabbing the content from the other.
 * But you might not want to do such a thing if you are expecting to get traffic
   from Google for either site because Google does not like duplicate content on
   two sites.

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