willyrs

I just deleted 300 links from my blogroll. It’s the same problem and the background is much the same–we were using 2.2x and found spam on the blogroll. I deleted it, checked all the permissions on folders and then upgraded to 2.3. They keep coming back.

Our (custom) theme doesn’t have a blogroll, so the links don’t appear anywhere on the site. I’ve noticed a lot of incoming links from spam sites, too, so maybe this is a way to game search engines.

No new admin users have appeared. We do have about 15,000 registered users, however.

http://www.commondreams.org is our home page–but that’s done with html. The stories, however, are all published with WordPress.

This post helped solve my problem too—and I’m going to now make sure all of our permissions are set correctly.

Just to make sure I understand this: I’ll set every directory (folder) to 755. I’ll set every individual file to 644.

Are there any exceptions? For example, are there typically plugins that need to have looser permissions? And if so, does that mean setting the plugin folder itself and the wp-content folder to those same permissions?

Thanks.

Willy