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Are you logged in when you get this? Have you tried logging out and going to your blog to see if you can still see the errors?

I can see a bunch of empty DIVs at the end of your code with class set to “post-fixed”, but I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it.

I can’t really answer this, are you quite sure that it is a hack? If you do this, be very sure that you can replace that code if it turns out to be legitimate and your blog needs it.

There is a lot going on here, for starter, are you able to change your admin password?

Carl, you also need to try to find out how they got in. your admin user name and password may have been compromised. You should certainly consider changing your admin password immediatly, and choose a strong passowrd of at least six random characters that is hard to guess. There are articles in the CODEX and other places that address WordPress security which will help you harden your installation. Many of the things you can do don’t require any coding.

The file I am talking about is in your theme, and it appears that you are using the Default theme. You can log in to admin and use your Theme Editor (Under Design) to look at the code. If you prefer to pull down a copy with FTP and look at it, it should be at:
wp-content/themes/default/index.php

If you have not made any modifications to the Default theme, you might be able to get rid of the hack by re-loading the theme.

Good luck with this.

There might not be a better solution than the one you already identified. Basically you want to apply eight backgrond images (four sides, four corners) to a single element, with the sides repeating so they will accomodate any size image. One background per DIV, eight DIV’s per element.

If you are willing to go with your light source from someplace other than directly overhead, you can create a very large image with a shadow on two edges, use that as the background on a floated DIV so it wraps to the image, then use negative margins on two sides like this:

.img-wrapit img {
    margin: -5px 5px 5px -5px;
}

to reveal the shadow. It’s a matter of personal taste, I think this looks more natural.

It would appear that your blog has been hacked. If you look at the source code for your blog, you’ll see many links to various sites. These are enclosed in a tag:
<font style='position: absolute;overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0'>
that is hiding that text so it doesn’t appear on your blog.

It’s hard to say where this got inserted, I think I would start by looking in index.php to see if there is code in there that is retrieving these links.

Have you recently upgraded, or otherwise re-loaded any files into directory wp-admin? If so, then my best guess is that wp-admin is comprised of files from different releases.

redeclare_get_drafts() is a function that performs some task. It is declared in a script called user.php. That script is “included” in a script called admin-db.php. Including lets one script incorporate all of the code in another script with a single reference (very handy). However, further in admin-db.php, a function with the same name was declared again, which is illegal.

Don’t mess with this code, try reloading wp-admin from a clean download first.

I can see the page, but not the errors you mentioned

It breaks down in IE6. IE6 does not calculate the CSS box model like any other browser, which can make all of the columns wider than they should be, pushiing the last one down under the previous column. I’m guessing that this is the issue. If so, there are fixes available, but if the theme supplier won’t help you with this, you might consider another theme. A LOT of people still have IE6.

Many ISP’s will react exactly the same way to your issue. They don’t know if you are a hacker with a plan they haven’t seen, or if you have been hacked, and their first inclination is to pull the plug and provide little or no information. Also, they are notorious for being way behind on versions of third-party software they provide, in fact in my experience they keep a death grip on any version that seems stable to them.

Sad news is, it is hard to get better treatment elsewhere. My best advice if possible is to have sort of a MASH attitude, be prepared to up and bug out quickly if the releationship with your ISP goes weird, but don’t pack up until you are sure you can’t live with what you have and are moving to something better.

Really can’t say for sure, but you could very well be right that these are bots, and it is probable that they are going to start posting comment spam. Hopefully you have akismet or another good filter set up. Again, I can’t be sure, but watch your comments to see what comes in from these “subscribers”.

I think the only way to do this and keep your sanity is to float two column against each other, and make one of them wider than the other. Then WITHIN the wide column you float two columns.

The CSS is something like this:

#colmn3leftcontain {
float: left;
width: 500px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#colmn3left {
float: left;
width: 225px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

}

#colmn3mid {
float: right;
width: 225px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

}
#colmn3right {
float: right;
width: 225px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

}

The HTML:
<div id=”contentmain”>

<div id=”colmn3leftcontain”>
<div id=”colmn3left”>
</div> <!–colmn3left–>
<div id=”colmn3mid”>
</div> <!–colmn3mid–>
</div> <!–colmn3leftcontain–>

<div id=”colmn3right”>
</div> <!–colmn3right–>
</div> <!–contentmain–>

I’m not sure if this helps, but it has worked for me.

Clearly your db connection is working if the blog is. Does the error you are getting go anywhere in identifying the DB it is trying to connect to? Something you can share without compromising security?

Probably the most likely cause is a corrupted executable file. You might consider a new download of WordPress, then re-load everything. Or, if that’s a bit radical for you, you can compare the files on your server with your saved download on your computer, looking for missing files or cases where file size does not match, and just replace those. Then contact your ISP and explain the steps you have taken, see if they will turn you back on for another try

God luck

Is this a brand new installation, or were you running a previous version? We have no way of knowing if your upgrade produced an increased traffic volume, or if the traffic was occuring well before the upgrade (and your ISP just noticed it). Either way, if presented with your issue by my ISP I would have them on telephone or chat within the hour to get more details on this issue.