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So, the Honor System, then. How does one tell if a not-tested plugin is or is not working? Can it crash the site?

So, I set it to give three login attempts before lockout, and there’s a typo in the first attempt, so it calls that an invalid username, and the second attempt has no typo but it locks me out anyway, is what it seems like you’re telling me. Is that really how it works?

On the www. thing, when I change my general settings to include the www. , my site logo image becomes an unrecognizable blob, and my media library becomes nothing but blank squares. I can click on the squares and it will display their filenames, so I can discard and replace the site logo in general settings, but it still appears as an unrecognizable blob. Not sure how the images display on the pages though.

When I remove the www. from the url in General Settings, the media library and site logo display return to normal. Please tell me now, before I get much more work done, do I have to restart from scratch to get the www. into the url? Or is there a way to put it there without completely messing up the media library? And, if I do start from scratch, will it even work then or will it still interfere with the images like this? Thanks.

Also, if I disable the AIO Security plugin and re-enable it, does it remember all my settings or do I have to re-do them all? Thanks again.

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Thank you. I have sent a query to Automatic, the manager of the Fewer theme. However, I have the Fewer theme activated on a number of subdomains, and the only place this phenomenon occurs is the root domain with the Elementor plugin. It didn’t act this way at first, just started doing it one day, so I concluded that I accidently switched some setting in Elementor. I will poke around the Fewer theme to see if there is such a setting there, but, I doubt it. Any suggestions how to proceed, without messing up the work I’ve already done?

Thanks.

On the site lockout question, yes, I did go back to the site through the Hostinger Dashboard, and indeed it is set up for lockout after three failed attempts. So, if it locked me out after only one attempt, does that mean a hacker is trying to get in already? The site isn’t even pinging the Googlebots yet.

Thank you for the code snippet screenshot. Sadly, it doesn’t help me understand. I chose WordPresss because their literature all says no need to know code, and I don’t. But not unwilling to learn it, but don’t know it now. When I get all these subdomains and plugins co?rdinated and the site is functioning satisfactorily I will pause and study the coding. From what I can gather there are like five languages to learn – HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, and maybe another one or two more and maybe dialects. I wanted to get the sit up and running without coding like the site builder pitches say, but to do some of the fancy stuff it would indeed be better to know the code.

Actually, I have been typing that www. in by hand, because the SEO documentation says the Googlebots like it better. I have been looking for a way to make it automatic. So you’re saying all I have to do is go to AdminPanel>Settings>General and change the WordPress Address (URL) field and the Site Address (URL) to https://www.dixonsforum.com, and the www. will be automatically inserted into all the links? Or do I just change one of the fields, and if so, which one?

I am planning on rebuilding the headers and footers without the image hotlinks, so I can disable hotlinking, and would rather have the www. in all the links, since the SEO advises that is better.

That seems to have done the trick. So, apparently, when I copy-paste the header-footers from one domain to another, WordPress just automatically hotlinks the images rather than copying them whole. If I want the hotlink blocking active, I will need to rebuild the header-footers for each domain from images in their own media libraries, correct?

Yes, thank you, hjogiupdraftplus, I did try that already and that’s why I was asking about the time lag about how long the updates take place. So, have I made a mistake by copy-pasting the header images from dds.dixonsforum.com to dixonsforum,com and the other subdomains? Does WordPress automatically hotlink them instead of copying? If that is the issue I may have to rebuild the headers by hand for each subdomain, right? I will disable hotlink blocking and see how that works. Thanks, I will let you know.

Wow, a site builder that doesn’t allow header and footer customization, imagine that.??Ok, can you help with this issue:?? to be clear, this phenomenon is not occurring in the Editor. In the Editor settings the Visual Editor is checked on. But, in the Sidebar Design Panel under AdminPanel>Appearance>Editor, before I select something to edit, where WprdPress normally displays the home page, I’m getting just a box full of code, not the home page itself. When I actually Edit with Elementor the home page, it goes to the visual editor. But when I’m not editing, the home page displays as a block of code. How do I change it back to normal?

Yes, thank you, that enables me to come up with a workaround. Ideally, I would be able to stick an in-line image onto the end of the Heading text like we can for paragraph text, but this way is good enough for now.

I don’t know what happened, but when I tried it again this morning, the Site Logo block behaved normally. All I did was walk away and come back later. ?

Oh, how embarrassing. Apologies for asking too soon. I did not really notice that little “fr” in the Layout panel until now. I really must get to the eye doctor. But I found it, and figured out it’s a way to customize the column widths, so I can put my thumbnail image in a narrow column and have the text editor in the wide column.

I found a way with Microsoft ALT codes that works for the website. I will try to demonstrate here in the forum. Even if the special characters show up in this editor, they may not show in the submitted post. That’s what happens on the website — the indents show in the Editor but not on the live page. Proper indentation is very important.

       By entering ALT 0160 Non-Breaking Space seven times in a row, I can indent this line.  It shows in the Editor.  If I enter ALT 21, I get this character: §.  ALT 0137 makes ‰, ALT 0134 makes ?.  With ALT 138 and ALT 130, you can even spell resume like rèsumé!  Even though the ALT 09 Horizontal Tab does not show on the live page, I will enter it here to see if it shows in forum posts.  It does not. But the nonbreaking spaces will work for indenting.  And you can use two Non-Breaking Spaces after periods so HTML won’t cram your sentences together.

You don’t need the Rich Text Keyboard Input feature to enter the ALT codes, but if you use it, the special characters display in a different style than the ones without it. Can’t demonstrate that here though; it’s not in the drop-down,

To enter Microsoft ALT codes, you press and hold the left ALT key, enter the decimal code on the numeric keypad, release the left ALT key. All you need is to find a table of the numeric codes and if necessary convert the Hex values to decimal. There is a nuance, however. There are two different bases for the key codes. Codes with a leading zero like ALT 0160 yield a different character than codes without a leading zero. So ALT 0160 is Non-Breaking Space, but ALT 160 is á. The base with the leading zeros contains the control characters.

The best ALT codes table I found is at altcodeunicode.com.

I found a way with Microsoft ALT codes that works for the website. I will try to demonstrate here in the forum. Even if the special characters show up in this editor, they may not show in the submitted post. That’s what happens on the website — the indents show in the Editor but not on the live page. Proper indentation is very important.

???????By entering ALT 0160 Non-Breaking Space seven times in a row, I can indent this line.??It shows in the Editor.??If I enter ALT 21, I get this character: §.??ALT 0137 makes ‰, ALT 0134 makes ?.??With ALT 138 and ALT 130, you can even spell resume like rèsumé!??Even though the ALT 09 Horizontal Tab does not show on the live page, I will enter it here to see if it shows in forum posts.??It does not. But the nonbreaking spaces will work for indenting.??And you can use two Non-Breaking Spaces after periods so HTML won’t cram your sentences together.

You don’t need the Rich Text Keyboard Input feature to enter the ALT codes, but if you use it, the special characters display in a different style than the ones without it. Can’t demonstrate that here though; it’s not in the drop-down,

To enter Microsoft ALT codes, you press and hold the left ALT key, enter the decimal code on the numeric keypad, release the left ALT key. All you need is to find a table of the numeric codes and if necessary convert the Hex values to decimal. There is a nuance, however. There are two different bases for the key codes. Codes with a leading zero like ALT 0160 yield a different character than codes without a leading zero. So ALT 0160 is Non-Breaking Space, but ALT 160 is á. The base with the leading zeros contains the control characters.

The best ALT codes table I found is at altcodeunicode.com.

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The question is not about how to handle whitespace, it is about how to insert the standard ASCII Special Characters like En Dash, Nonbreaking Hyphen, Nonbreaking Space . . . etc. into the text. According to the article “Using Character Entities in WordPress”, HTML calls them Character Entities or Extended Characters. How does the WordPress Site Editor provide for inserting these characters into our text?

Thanks.

Is there a way to just attach an image from my snipping tool? But I don’t really need a screenshot to illustrate. In quotes here is an ellipsis with ordinary spaces: ” . . . “, and, here’s the same ellipsis but at ” . . . ” the end of a line of text, the ordinary spaces allow it to break as if it were not a single punctuation mark. Well, heck, now the thing breaks across lines while I’m editing this, but when I submit it does not, so I can’t illustrate it with this text editor.

There is a special extended character called Nonbreaking Space that keeps things from breaking across lines like that. So the question I have is: How in Elementor do we insert the special characters into our paragraph text? I’m using the ellipses nonbreaking spaces thing only as an example, and wish to know in general how to insert any special extended character.

Thanks.

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