iandsmith

I hope I’n not speaking too soon, but several hours after spending all day following How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installaion, and then finding the trojan warning still appearing, I just tried it out and it all looks to be okay. Thanks, Samboll.

Bad news. I followed the instruction, deleted the whole WP, reinstalled it, but AVG still detected the JS-downloader.agent trojan.

My .htaccess looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

Same problem as larryinvegas. Edit Post / Visual appears as white HTML on white background with just the red underlining visible. Makes editing somewhat tricky.

Yep, a lot of patience. The Search Engine Optimisation plugin lets you write a title tag for each post that’s different to the actual title. Hopefully this is what people Google for so your blog comes to the top of their search. Another thing I’m working on is Netvibes which lets you make a public page of your own blogs and your favourites. Also, claim your blog in Technorati which will then track it. Submit your blog to blogcatlog.com and use the widgets which track who’s visited your blog. Link to other similar blogs, write comments on other blogs, subscribe to lots of blog (ie feeds), explain in great detail who you are and what you’re blogging about on your blog.

I moved this unresolved query to another thread.

Update: It worked after I changed the file attributes of every single parent directory to 777, from httpdocs down to 08.

I’m importing an XML file from WordPress, and I get “Uploaded file could not be moved to var/www/ …. wp-content/uploads/2007/08” I changed attributes of the parent directories, but to no avail.

I’m with Powweb. Although I was able to set up a dedicated WordPress blog site for $7-77 a month, and create a database, Powweb doesn’t seem allow for the database to grow. I thought it was slow, but in fact the mass of posts to the database appears to have grown too large for their SQL servers after 7 months, (or something!). I can’t extract my db to switch hosts, the Ops won’t work, phpMyAdmin doesn’t respond. So the archive is at risk, shall we say. There is always a price to pay for cheap web hosting.

Sorry, I can’t help. I came here to see what people do when their database was too large for their web hosts. I want to change hosts but can’t get phpMyAdmin to respond.

Excellent. Resolved.

Thanks blepoxp. It was unchecked, and checking it restored everything. I didn’t uncheck it. I didn’t even know it was there. I think the tabs disappeared after I switched to HTML and saved without switching back.

It’s resolved. I sacked Terrapin as I could no longer trust it to tell me what was on the server, never mind reinstall wp-admin. I downloaded the excellent FileZilla, and everything is now as I intended.

No doubt where the recent Terrapin problems come from. This is from Terrapin’s site:

Latest: A recent Microsoft Windows update may prevent Terrapin FTP from running.

If you experience problems with Terrapin FTP freezing on startup then it is most likely due to this Microsoft update. The update in question is KB908531 which is documented in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-015. Microsoft have released a fix for this problem that requires you to edit the Windows registry. The fix can be found in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 918165. Another solution would be to uninstall KB908531 through Control Panel / Add Remove Programs

If I reinstall wp-admin and the root WordPress files from my hard disc, would that reinstate my past blogs, or have I lost them? Would it be just a new blank installation?

Well, that’s it. Deep despair. As far as I can tell, I lost my blog. Terrapin completely screwed the file copying. I’ve been using it for five years and I never had any trouble moving files.