mwarbinek

Ah, that is much clearer.

Ok, so to add in “ADMIN” and ‘admin’ is not required, all I need to do is just add the string in lower case and it will cover all variations including case sensitive variations of the same string.

Got it. ??

I see that I should be more precise in my question which was my fault. I should have asked “Do I need to add case sensitive versions of the same word to cover case sensitive variations”.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the reply. I just wish to understand what you said, when you said the strings are converted to lowercase before they are compared.

How does that translate to a user name shown as “ADMIN” versus ‘admin’?

If the string “ADMIN” is converted to lower case of “admin” and compared to ‘admin’, are they not the same and one cancels out?

Alright, will do, but can you give a short list of the most important details you want to see so I do not miss them?

The security warnings are simple ones from WordFence plugin telling me that a plugin needs updating. It does this when there is an update available for that plugin. It monitors the website and warns me by email if there are any problems or concerns, like updates.

I usually leave the 1st warning for a day or two, to allow Jetpack to catch up, but when I get another warning (2-3 days later), I know there was a disconnection with Jetpack for that website. I go in to find that either the WordPress account connection was changed to another WordPress account I manage, and of course, the update does not work, or the connection was lost and have to reconnect.

I am trying to figure out what I am doing that changes the connection to a different account so I can avert this problem from that aspect. – IS it possible that if I enter one WordPress account for one client’s website, then close without logging out, then open a new tab, log into another Clients WordPress account, that this causes the previous website connection to shift to the second account?

As for the disconnection, I have no clue since you say that once the connection was made, I do not need to remain logged into that WordPress account for JetPack to update.

I do not manage these websites in my WordPress account, I create a separate WordPress account for the client and access their account. This because if my management for that client ends, they have they own account to work from.

Thanks for the reply.

I asked the question to determine what is happening, which is the connection to WordPress Jetpack is constantly severed and I have to keep reactivating the connection with WordPress.

WordPress sites I manage keeps getting connected to the wrong WordPress account. Even if I log into Jetpack in one site, then log out. Go to another site and log into Jetpack with a different account matched to the site, log out etc. I eventually find I get security warnings the plugins need updating and when I go back in the connection to Jetpack is severed.

Any idea why?

So far its just the YIT Socute / WooCommerce theme. I have not experienced this bug in any other theme I have used so far, but compared to the thousands of WP themes out there, that is not much to say.

I am finding it too much of a hassle to deal with support at YIT unless I have to. (Its a premium theme and so many bugs and issues, yuck! :/)

Muchas gracias

Thanks for the reply.

I will have to disagree with the coding for the footer, albeit its a temporary fix until I can find a better way.

To see a footer bar across a page, cutting the page in half, with empty space below is not a good design no matter how default it may be. Its an issue with all web designers who have to fight with it (no matter the theme) and why solutions like “sticky footers” were created by other well respected designers. WordPress certainly is not a special acceptance to basic page layout practices.

So I guess this can be a matter of personal preference, whether to have the footer stick out like a sore thumb or force to be at the bottom at all times. I prefer the latter as it allows for better reading flow and shows as a finished page.

As for the Theme Options, was already aware of it, nice list I must admit, better than most, yet still limited regarding the menu. If the theme author wants something to be default then he/she should choose default settings that work well in mobile, but not create a mobile version where its hard to read, that is just bad practice and the average person who does not work webdesign will not know its a bad practice which is why this particular default was a bad choice.

It does not take much effort to choose a better menu appearance, after all its the same effort to choose a bad one.

Not everyone can work WordPress now a days with the complexity it has developed to, despite Theme options etc. So defaults should be better out of the box instead of having to go into a lot of option changes or custom CSS changes just to make the basic work better. At least that is my practice.

Thanks

What is better is that I created a page with a gallery of Screen shots of what it looks like out of the box and with a CSS fix.

I did the gallery method way because I need this WordPress site to display to potential customers so I cannot leave this WordPress site unfixed waiting for someone to view the problem. Please view the gallery of screen shots to see the problem I refer to.

I did use my own CSS fix. So you will see screen shots “before” and “after” a CSS fix.

You will notice that the fix added more white space under the page content and content-image. This is generally not good, way too much white space causes too much scrolling in mobile screens, thus this is a temporary CSS fix.

When there is enough content, it seems to work fine, so the problem occurs when there is little content to fill the space.

Unfortunately, the CSS fix I used requires a fixed margin value (see below) and this is not a good thing to do with different screen sizes between Desktop to Tablet or Smartphone. The footer should automatically be at the bottom of the screen.

This is what I used in my CSS fix:

.footer {
position: relative !important;
top: 389px !important;
}

The URL to this gallery page with screen shots is:
https://www.formwebdesign.ca/wordpress/evolve-screen-shots/

The images have caption names and click on any one image will show a black dotted boundary, which replicates the border of the screen.

PS:
By the way, are you the author of this theme? I ask this because the styling of the menu is awful in mobile screens, its hard to read. Something that also needs to be fixed in any updates. This is because the text shadowing makes the menu text way too light and very hard to read. I did some fix to it but needs more work.

No need to upgrade to pro to have timer settings laid out as an option tab, all I need is the PHP file name that the timer settings are located.

Welcome.

Any changes to the theme via CSS is done in the Custom CSS provided by the theme.

For the website to adjust to mobile screens, requires either a script (PHP or JavaScript / jQuery) to adjust the pages and images, or its done by @media queries in the CSS files. You can do it in the custom CSS as well.

Renden theme is kinda poor in scaling the site, but hey, its free so they are not going to put much effort into it.

Note: I checked your website after you adjusted the slider image sizes, looks good now on a wide screen desktop monitor.

Dynamcor, at least one of your images you used for the slider is 1500 x 350 size.

What the Renden ThinkUpSlider does is adjusts the size to fit the slider so if your image is too big, some of it gets cut off, if its too small it gets enlarged. Its bad enough the slider blurs the image a bit already.

The size that works with this ThinkUpSlider in the Renden theme is 1400 x 360 (max), where it does barely any scaling of the image.

So you would either have to scale your images in a good photo editor as Adobe’s Photoshop or any other good editor or you have to cut out the exact size of 1400 x 360. Any text you want would have to go into that image after its cut.

As a side note:
2 things,

1. Font size for the menu is way too small in a Desktop screen (its ok in the mobile screen).

2. Slider images, on the vehicle wrap, you inserted some text into the theme customizer for the slider. The text is hard to read, its white against a bright colored background.

There is no theme customize feature to address this, so you have to make adjustments in customize CSS. So here is the custom CSS I used to make the needed adjustments (and works fine in mobile screens).

/*FONT SIZE & COLOR CHANGES – MENU & CONTENT*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, cite,
del, dfn, em, font, q, s, samp,
strike, strong,
ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
tbody, tfoot, thead, tr {
font-size: 100.8% !important;
}

/*SLIDER IMAGE LABEL ADJUSTMENTS*/
#slider .featured-title span {
padding: 10px !important;
color: #FFF !important;
font-size: 1.9vmax !important;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.65);
border-radius: 12px !important;
}
#slider .featured-excerpt span {
padding: 10px !important;
color: #FFF !important;
font-size: 1.2vmax !important;
line-height: 55px;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.65);
border-radius: 12px !important;
}

The slider labels are given a black background with transparency and white letters to stand out. The “! important” is needed.

Hope that helps.

Oooh, I would give the name of the plugin I chose as an alternate, but I think the plugin author will dislike me posting that here.

I prefer the BackWPUP, when I can use it, but with GoDaddy, that was not possible.

Just do what I did, which was perform a little Google research (reviews) on WordPress backup plugins and there are a number of other good ones. Choose one, try it and see if it works in the GoDaddy Managed WordPress environment. If not, go to the next one. That is what I had to do.

If its just backing up you want, try to focus on finding a plugin that does the job and is not bloated with a lot of other unwanted features.

Always do a scan of your website for malicious malware, HTML pages and scripts with a good plugin before any backup.

Then, ensure that the plugin backs up WP folders, not just the SQL database and check that it occurred. I did not check one time as I should and only had the SQL backup.

Most of all, after the scan, ensure a copy wp-config and htaccess file is included in the backup.

I used one of the cloud storage services and saved a copy to my backup hard drive. Since this is part of my business, redundant backups are always a good measure.

Thanks for the reply.

Maybe, as it was past, I would accept the backups created by systems as Managed WordPress, but, with a recent experience with a hacker, I now tend to feel the same as you. I prefer to maintain my own backups as my method involves my own personal spare external drive that is not connected to the internet and DropBox types as a secondary backup in the event I loose my spare drive.

What happened recently was a hacker got into the website account, installed 8000 malware HTML’s and corrupted the backups made by the website host making them useless. Since the web host is never 100% secure, I won’t risk the loss and cost of it.

I have used another backup plugin in those two Managed WordPress sites. For sites that do not use Managed WordPress, I use BackWPup.

I prefer to use such plugins because it does the job is short order and manually backing up all those folders and files is really time consuming, especially when backing up is part of my business.