bicartwright

Hi Ethan,

Interesting, I will see if I can debug it that way first, if not than I’ll do the reinstall I’ve outlined above.

Guess I need to tighten up the security on my site. Fortunately its not a very often visited site.

Thank you both for all your help

Bruce

Andrew, I’m sorry, the post from you that I read first was confusing. I see what you are saying now. I will research the links you posted and see if I can make sense of it. Wonder what would happen if I reinstall wordpress. Sadly I’m on a host where I can’t use a CRT client (only ftp) so have little control over how instlation is set up. So to do it I’d back up the database, download my content directory and probably the includes directory. Then delete the wordpress directory completely, reinstall (from hosts control panel). If the new install copy sets up a new db I will upload the backed up copy then copy in the contents directory. (don’t think I need the includes but I don’t remember and would have to check to make sure there aren’t any user (ie theme or plugin necessary files).

If either of you see a problem with that solution please let me know. I’m not going to attempt that in the next day or two so no rush.

Thank you both,

Bruce

Yeah, it sounds confusion. Let me try to make it clearer:

I try to log into the wp-admin consold and am unable to. I look at the files in the wp-admin directory and find this 500 byte files:

<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/@include( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-includes/js/utilities.js’ );

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );

I then copy in (from my local computer) a 7K file with the following header (file is pretty long so not including full contents) <?php
/**
* Dashboard Administration Screen
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Administration
*/

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/admin.php’ );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php’);

I then try again to log into wp-admin. I can then get into the wp-admin dashboard but if I refresh my FTP client I see that the 500 byte file is back in the wp-admin directory.

Yeah, sounds nuts but that is what’s happening

Andrew, I’m not sure you intended to pust your comment here. If so I dont understand it.

shoot, I’ve done it again. the file show first is obvilusly not the 500 byte file. Ignore that reply. I’ll repost it crected in a moment

Hi Ethen,

Yeah, it sounds confusion. Let me try to make it clearer:

I try to log into the wp-admin consold and am unable to. I look at the files in the wp-admin directory and find this 500 byte files:

<?php
/**
* Dashboard Administration Screen
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Administration
*/

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/admin.php’ );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php’);

I then copy in (from my local computer) a 7K file with the following header (file is pretty long so not including full contents) <?php
/**
 * Dashboard Administration Screen
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Administration
 */

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/admin.php' );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');

I then try again to log into wp-admin. I can then get into the wp-admin dashboard but if I refresh my FTP client I see that the 500 byte file is back in the wp-admin directory.

Yeah, sounds nuts but that is what’s happening

Andrew, I’m not sure you intended to pust your comment here. If so I dont understand it.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Formatting fixed

Hi, Ethen,

Thank you for your quick reply, No I’m putting the index.php in the we-admin directory. Sure do wish that was it though. I’ve verified several times though and its going in the wp-admin directory. I’ve included the header of the index.php I put into the wp-admin directory and as I log into admin (successfully I might add) I look at the size via FTP client and its changed back. Properties are set to 644 though. Any problem with that? I haven’t tried changing them to 444.

Here is the header of the index that works.

<?php
/**
 * Dashboard Administration Screen
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Administration
 */

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/admin.php' );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski.

Hi Joccob,

Re: mailchimp, I was mistaken, the note to the autoloader was just above a page I was accessing for mailchimp and misunderstood it to be needed for mailchimp too. I think I’ll follow your advice re: Singular Title and just get rid of the plugin all together.

Thank you, that really does help.

Bruce

Hi T-P

I flushed browser cache. I normally use Firefox so tried it in Chrome as well, I seldom use Chrome, and still no luck. Provider doesn’t offer Purge/vanish feature at least from user, don’t know if its available through them. I’ve seen other’s complain about this as well but can’t find their posts to find if they’ve had any success solving it.

Thanks for the suggestions, probably a good idea to clear the cache anyway

Bruce

Hi Girlieworks,

Thank you so much, I’m learning more and more about this each day. It’s time for me to set up a local site and dig in.

Thank uyou again,

Bruce

Hi Girlieworks,

It is and I changed it as you instructed and the problem is solved. And now I know something I didn’t yesterday ??

Quick question if you have a moment for one. Think a “Y or N” will do: Can you have a page and a category name the same?

Thank you so much for your help!!!!

Ahhhhhhh, that makes so much sense. I was thinking of playing with the zzz’s (which is what I’d like to do about now) but didn’t think of another layer concept. Thank you so much.

never mind the problem of inserting an image. Think we should focus on one problem at a time ?? So I stuck an image in a temp directory

https://www.bcsjournal.com/temp/background.jpg

I would love to include a screen shot if I could find a way to insert it

Because the menu text to click on is located on the spine of an illustrated book.

I’d show you the illustration but don’t see any way to add it here.

So if you know a way to do it I’d appreciate it. There is not left hand sidebar which is ideally where I’d like to put it but I could live with right hand if I could only get it working.

Damn, just realized that this is on my local system. Going to have to upload it to my live site but I’m not sure seeing it will make any difference.