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  • Before doing anything, unplug your home router, wait a full minute, then plug it back in. If the problem persists, have someone test your site from a different location. If it happens there, contact GoDaddy and report the problem. However I’m 90% sure it’s your home internet connection that’s the problem.

    I would discourage this as it will harm your search engine rankings because you’ll have two apparently separate websites with identical content.

    If you want to push ahead, it’s called domain aliasing. Contact your host and they should be able to explain how to add an additional domain to your site.

    WordPress.com uses the Twilio service to do that but I don’t see any available plugins to do what you want.

    It could be an issue with your internet connection. Are you on shared hosting?

    1. Go into your WordPress admin
    2. Click Settings -> Permalinks
    3. Under “Common Settings” select “Post Name”
    4. Click the “Save Changes” button
    5. Reload the homepage and try it again.

    Instead of a blank “extension” just add a forward slash, like “/”.

    Regarding the about page, you most likely have a page in your trash with the /about slug. Empty your trash cans and then rename the new about page’s slug to “/about”.

    I think you mistyped your link.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Spam Emails

    Yes, Google ReCaptcha is the most reliable simply because all captchas eventually get broken, but Google has a team constantly evolving the technology to stay ahead. The dinky captcha plugin for Contact Form 7 is about as useless as they come.

    A few possible explanations:

    1. They needed content to get their domains indexed, so they stole yours.
    2. Are you a seller on Clickbank or similar network? They might just be lazy affiliates.
    3. It’s a competitor who is actively trying to hurt your rankings by creating duplicate content on other websites.
    4. The only modification they did was to self host two of your Javascript files. Right now they’re identical, but they could have intentions to do something bad.

    Two recommended actions:

    1. File a DMCA complaint with their host, it’s the only way to expect a response from a webhost.
    2. Add this Javascript to one of your scripts to redirect to your actual site if the domain is incorrect.
      I would add it to the bottom of /dap/javascript/dapcart/paymentvalidation.js

      <script type="text/javascript">
      if(/(www\.)?playsubmissionshelper\.com/.test(window.location.host) === false) {
         window.location = "https://www.playsubmissionshelper.com";
      }
      </script>

      This should have an immediate effect since they’re linking directly to that script.

    If you’re blocking the requests with .htaccess, the “strain” on your site will be minimal assuming that they’re not hitting you 100 times a second. From your screenshots it looks like you’re getting probed once every few seconds to few minutes, which is very low.

    Don’t worry about it, it’s blocked, they can’t get in that way. Instead of locking the door to your house, you removed it and bricked up the hole.

    Should the number of requests increase to a point that your website *does* slow down, that’s a DDOS and you’ll need to use a service like Cloudflare to protect yourself.

    Changing the setting under Settings -> Discussion was the right thing to do, but it’s not retroactive. Meaning, you need to update all of your posts and pages to disable trackbacks for each one.

    If you know how to open up phpmyadmin, run this SQL command against your WordPress database:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed';

    That will update all posts and pages instantly.

    Regarding adding “Poetry” to your header, just edit that post and add it to the “Poetry” category and then insert the “Poetry” category link to your menu under Appearance -> Menus.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Trackbacks

    Changing the setting under Settings -> Discussion was the right thing to do, but it’s not retroactive. Meaning, you need to update all of your posts and pages to disable trackbacks for each one.

    If you know how to open up phpmyadmin, run this SQL command against your WordPress database:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status='closed';

    Otherwise update each post and page manually to disable trackbacks.

    I looked a little closer at the JS in WordPress and I can’t find that line anywhere, so my best guess is that it’s in Woocommerce and it’s overwriting the wp.media.editor object.

    I would post this on the Woocommerce support forums, they will be able to give you a quicker answer.

    When you say that the file uploads, did you FTP into wp-content/uploads/2015/07 and see the file?

    If so, open the media library and right click where the thumbnail should be and select “Properties” (or similar in your browser). Check the URL of the thumbnail and see if it’s correct.

    Those versions of double quotes are the problem, they’re special characters. Try this version:

    Share Your Content Grow Business <a href="https://toptradings.net/write-for-us/">Get Started!</a>

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