Basil Hendroff

Hi Mark, thanks for responding. Just to be clear, I can log in with username and password. I can’t log in with WordPress.com even though I have it connected with the website. The error message I’m seeing is when I try to login with wordPress.com.

Thank you for the workaround. Refer to Anomaly observed with the Pen theme in the Simple Calendar support forum.

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@romi74 Like you, I found using a frontend cache like WP Super Cache didn’t make a noticeable difference to site speed when using the Pen theme. What gave me a marked improvement (qualitatively, I felt the site speed increase by at least 50%), was using a backend cache like Redis.

Thank you! Just for any of your readers who may be interested:

= 1.3.9 =
* Content “Updated on” date included
* Next/Previous Content navigation
* Copyright template file turned into a function
* Continued enhancements for a better preview experience on wp-themes.com (www.remarpro.com)
* UX improvements
* Bug fixes
* Several improvements

Oh, I like it!

Totally awesome! Love it! So much nicer!!!!

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@wfadam Your welcome. Btw, the posts are temporary. I’ll leave them as is for a couple of days, but I’d appreciate it if your team can take the results off if required, or I can move it to a less transient location if preferred. Let me know what you would like me to do.

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@wfadam I’ve done some more rigorous testing. You’ll find the results at More comprehensive tests

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@wfadam I wasn’t expecting such a rapid response!

Failed Login Attempt

You’ll notice from the image that what I see is a failed login rather than a block when the user is [login].

Hi @wfadam, and thanks for responding. I do actually have both admin and [login] as usernames to immediately block the IP of. admin is effectively blocked, but [login] is not. Note that this is a top domain of the form mydomain.com.

I have second WP site in a subdomain of this top domain so of the form sub.domain.com. Usernames I block the IP addresses of here are admin and sub. Both are effectively blocked.

It seems [login] replaces sub for a top domain, but blocking doesn’t appear to be effective in this case.

@htmlpie The mystery has been solved. This had me stumped until now. It turns out that if a post has many images and only a little text, then if there is not enough text to fill the synopsis view, the Continue Reading >> button is not displayed.

I haven’t decided whether this is a bug or a feature. Anyway, in hindsight, the explanation for the behaviour is pretty obvious. Still, until now, my suspicion was wither there was some weird Pen sitting corruption or I had been hacked! So pleased it wasn’t either of these.

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Both xmlrpc and ctype php extensions are not included in the recommended server environment described in the WordPress hosting handbook Server Environment.

Is this an oversight for the WordPress hosting handbook, or are these dependencies of Jetpack that need to be articulated somewhere?

Hi David,
That was the clue I needed. I’m self-hosting and no, I haven’t removed a function. The issue is that the WordPress hosting handbook Make WordPress Hosting does not specify the sessions php extension for the recommended server environment.

Once I did a pkg install php74-session and then a restart of PHP-FPM viaservice php-fpm restart on FreeBSD, I was then able to continue with the manual backup. Problem solved!

Is this an oversight for the WordPress hosting handbook, or is it a dependency of UpdraftPlus that needs to be articulated somewhere?

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Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites

That works! Thank you for providing a solution.

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