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another thing, maybe worth mentioning, I am just noticing it, if I click on the ‘All Content’ and ‘Nominated’ tabs under the admin menu in the wp dashboard, those pages don’t really load, there is just a candy-striped bar at top that appears to be loading but no content is showing up for those two pages.

Done.

Hi Aram, I sent the login to info [at] presssforward.org

I am simply on a shared hosting plan with Hostgator, so nothing special in terms of setup or routing that I am aware.

The .htaccess file simply looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Hello, I understand it’s Sunday. I am just wondering if you have any further suggestions or if you received my email with the login. Otherwise tomorrow I may have to find a developer or someone else to assist. I would be happy to make a donation to the plugin/development if it is something you are able to fix (rather than me going out and hiring another developer) as I do need to get this project wrapped up in the next few days. thanks.

Hi Aram,

I tried also the .htaccess file trick using the file admin-ajax.php and it did not work either.

The server is a Linux CentOS.

The site is not using any CDN services.

I also just sent an email with an admin login to the email address you gave Amanda.

Thanks again for all your help.

Hi Adam,

Actually I also did try that solution with the .htaccess file already. I set it as:

<Files nominate-this.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>

I also tried using the full file path. Unless you suggest there is another file I should be entering there. Should I actually be using admin-ajax.php as they did in the example? I thought that was particular to their case, but now I’m wondering if that would work …

I would be happy to provide you a temporary admin login if it would help you diagnose. If so let me know where to email you.

… as an example, I just tried to nominate this blog post:

https://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/02/kicking-and-screaming-vs-singing-and-dancing.html

and the url that appears in the popup looks like:

https://wwbtr.vitalinternetventures.com/wp-content/plugins/pressforward/includes/nomthis/nominate-this.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2015%2F02%2Fkicking-and-screaming-vs-singing-and-dancing.html&t=Seth%27s%20Blog%3A%20Kicking%20and%20screaming%20(vs.%20singing%20and%20dancing)&s=&v=4

Hi Amanda, thanks for the response!

In answer to your questions,

1. It’s installed on a subdomain off of my root domain. It is not password protected. You can find it at wwbtr.vitalinternetventures.com.

2. It actually happens with any and every url I try to nominate.

3. I did not make any changes. I temporarily changed the /nominate-this.php file within the plugin to permissions 755 as suggested above, but changed it back to 644 after it didn’t solve the problem.

I very much appreciate you looking into this. thanks!

Curiously, if I strip everything including and after the ‘?’ out of the URL that is trying to be opened, and paste it directly into my address bar, it will successfully open the Nominate This page from within my site’s dashboard. However if I paste the entire url including any or all of the variables after the /? then I get the same ‘authorization required’ message

update, I also tried with the ‘Press This’ and it is the same problem.

I brought the issue back to my web host support and they are still being non-responsive saying now it is “outside of their scope”

sorry forgot to update. yes, the plugin had been injected with malware and contained extra code and files that were not in the original plugin

nevermind, we abandoned this plugin

“The autoplay is not available in the free version,”

It would be nice if you added this in the bullet points of the plugin description on the plugin homepage so people know up front.

I guess there is not a fix for this bug so I am forced to look for a new image slider plugin. If the author of this plugin should happen to fix this issue in an update please reply to this thread.