Why is that? Can T you please clean up and delete your stuff, when your plugin is deinstalled? I am really getting fed up with all the garbage, zombie plugins leave behind.

Kind regards

Since a long time WordFence is on board – that plugin is of great assistance in the defense – the tracing of the attacks was clear to me the moment when it started – use to look at “Live Traffic” regular – there i saw the attacks on the login page came by – around 80% from Russia – a bot-net from several IP’s – probably zombie computers.

The attacker had found the right path to the login page – that worried me a bit – so i had to look at more ways to defend my WordPress site.

First i blocked each and every IP that came by – but i realized it should be a matter of time that the attack-script guessed the right password – although i have a save one with 20+ character.

Then the masking of the login page came along – a useful plugin that offers to masked the login under a fancy name (read URL) – resulted in a lot of 404’s – that made the blocking much easier – in the “Blocking” option of WordFence the “Page Not Found” filter did the job. The blocked IP’s still be blocked because there certainly will come another attack – signs that it will come are there already.

Of course i was attend not to block “Humans”

There maybe other ways to defend your website but when you not a techie like me this is perhaps a way to handle bot-net attacks

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top -c d2 -u username

i get this record while the site crash

top - 05:10:11 up 4 days, 23:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.61, 1.42, 1.50
Tasks: 803 total,   1 running, 440 sleeping,   0 stopped, 362 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.1%us, 14.7%sy,  5.0%ni, 78.7%id,  1.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.6%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8051452k total,  7559124k used,   492328k free,   234128k buffers
Swap:  4300792k total,    35088k used,  4265704k free,  6452832k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10835 beta      32  12  135m 1476  672 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.42 pure-ftpd (IDLE)
10837 beta      32  12  135m 1476  672 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.42 pure-ftpd (IDLE)

No error on the error log tells if its a mysql problem or anything by the way i get this query numbers

55 queries. 0.427 seconds

And My plugins are just Akismet Contact Form 7 Nextend Facebook Connect Simple Local Avatars Theme My Login Watermark My Image WP-PostViews WP Super Cache.

More info:

Server spec is

Quad-Core 3.2Ghz e3-1230 Xeon Sandy Bridge 8MB cache, 8GB Ram, 2 x 500GB SAS, RAID1, 10TB 68.233.227.250

Apache max client 1700 server limit 2000.

Anybody got a clue what i am encountering?

I’ll delete the /blog (directory) and my site will work just fine for a few days and take visitors to the /blog (page) and then something will happen and the directory will re-appear. I’ve tried deleting it and renaming it. I’ve contacted my hosting company and they’ve told me that it’s not their server back up restoring it, so it must be a plug in. I found the following information from someone else having a similar problem:

“The plugins installed on this particular wp site turned out to have some info stored in them that kept the former location they were in, in this case the folder /actividades/ before i even began working on the site.

So someone moved them via ftp out of the /actividades/ folder and into the root which did not update the path in which these plugins record their images and data and blabla so they kept remaking the folders…

I deleted the core wp files then the wp content folder and then the remainder of the site and went for a clean re-install.

Given the messy php nature of wordpress itself, not to mention that of its plugins… it was simpler this way. Locating the precise script that triggered the folder recreation was out of my league.”

1: How do I figure out which plugin is doing it? My wordpress install was fresh, with all new plugins added after the new install.

2: If i missed a plugin from the old site it wouldn’t be installed in my wordpress install, is it possibly still running some .php and re-creating the /blog directory without being installed in my newest install of wordpress?

I apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I have the Zombie Apocalypse theme installed on a spare domain of mine for a short while (www.dantury.co.uk) which will be moving elsewhere soon, and all I want to do is decrease the margin at the top so that when you are browsing through the site the main content fits in nicely.

I have backed up the style sheet and tried changing everything that says margin or wrapper or padding and I am either moving the wrong thing or not doing anything at all.

I am sure its something simple that I am missing but I just want to decrease the margin between the menu and the top of the window.

Thank you in advance

Cheers
Dan

Any idea?

Thanks enormously

The Short Version
I’ve deactivated WP File Monitor, but it continues to provide reports to me more than 10 days after I switched it off! The only possible culprit is WP Super Cache.

Details
I maintain several WP blogs under a “grid” server hosting plan and have been experimenting with getting optimal page render times. One of the biggest offenders in slowing my page load was the plug-in WP File Monitor, which would often and consistently delay page loads and was always one of the flagged items in the developer analysis tools of Apple’s Safari web browser.

After switching to Donncha’s vaunted WP Super Cache I was still getting some delays, so I decided to go ahead and try things with WP File Monitor switched off and using Preload.

It worked! Significantly faster load times!!

As expected, the plug-in no longer showed up in the Timeline of Safari’s developer’s analysis tool… yet… imagine my surprise as reports continued to roll in over the next several weeks… plug-in updates, image uploads, sitemap rebuilds… and many other normal reports… from what I can only describe now as a “zombie” plug-in!!

Scary!!
So, how did this happen?

Has Super Cache cached the WP File Monitor process somehow?
Has WP Minify frozen some sort of cron job in place?
Is my server haunted?
Is Donncha some kind of a witch doctor?

My web host now reports that there are a high number of zombie processes related to PHP on my non-wordpress pages.

Here is the only php code on those pages (expect a few php includes):

<?php require_once('../../blog/wp-blog-header.php'); header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); header("Status: 200 OK") ?>

The above is used to make the pages WP aware, and for some reason, WP makes the pages display a 404 Not Found.

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