sarcasteak

Hi Sea, I found that it was indeed my hosting company that caused this. I do apologize for the language, I was upset with what had happened.

Apparently there was a vulnerability in earlier versions of wordpress that the hosting company deemed a security issue. All my sites besides one were at 3.5.1. They mistakenly updated all my themes, and it deleted all my customizations to those themes. Since some of these themes were from so long ago, it was before wordpress gave much easier ways to modify child themes, so I just modified responsive and other themes directly.

I really wish they would have taken the sites down and notified me. I am not 100% sure they have a backup of my sites, but they are trying to determine that now. Also the hosting company made NO communication to ANY customers of what they did. So the first question when I called was in regards to forced updates, and it indeed happened. My hosting company has been known to be quiet reputable so I am shocked that this happened, but I guess everyone makes mistakes… but the QA behind this… wow.

I think my hosting company did this, almost guarantee it. Other blogs I have not touched in a year have 3.5.1 installed.

This makes no sense if the google cache is set at the 16th of April because there is no way I’ve updated to 3.5.1 since then… this was done behind my back somehow.

Man.. I have no idea what [ sweary language removed by moderator ] happened but all my sites got slammed… maybe last update of wordpress bundled in updates for the themes, because all my customizations got removed. Not only for responsive. Weeks and months of work look to be gone. I don’t understand why I just saw it when I haven’t updated anything in a month at least. Maybe I just cleared my browser cache or something.

Okay, I don’t have any idea of how this got enabled, but under Appearance > Theme Options > Home Page there is a setting called:

Overrides the WordPress front page option

I hope this hasn’t been like this for months.. and somehow I didn’t notice? My content is back but my css is screwed.

I’ve had my site with blue host for awhile and they are pretty good. Response times are nice and they do indeed have one click installs. Here is my site so you can get an idea of reaction time:

https://www.bloodylexicon.com

Not bad, the header is a little bland though, I would consider creating some type of banner/branding with an image.

Hi, I placed this before “the loop” used to retrieve posts in my category.php

Okay, so I found the tutorial on wordpress’s website, and I did not assume it was as easy as

<?php
 $posts = query_posts($query_string .
'&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=10');
?>

How do I have access to change the $posts variable and it magically modifies the query?

Hi, so I know I modified the wrong part. I am a programmer but php is not my expertise. Where/how are these methods included from? I don’t see any include functions in my php that contain the method “single_cat_title”, also, how does have_posts() know to only pull back ones of this category? The code that I am concerned about is here:

<h3><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h3>

<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="excerpt">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> </h2>

						<div class="excerptentry"><?php the_excerpt(); ?><div class="excerptlink"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"> Click for more information...</a></div></div>

		<div class="postmetadata">

			<span class="date">Posted in <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>

			<span class="comment"> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »','1 Comment »','% Comments »'); ?></span>

			<span class="tag"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', ''); ?></span>

		</div>
        <div class="clear"></div>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>`

Anyone that tries to do this the code is

<div class="navigation">

		<?php posts_nav_link(' - ', '&laquo; Latest posts', 'Previous posts &raquo;'); ?>

	</div>

I found that I can change it for everything under options > reading, but I just want to change it for categories. Or allow me to have a previous and next posts button (not showing now)

I’ve tried changing it back and forth… I tried one with dates and it didn’t make a difference.

For example, in my host setting https://www.bloodylexicon.com/vampires.php is supposed to redirect but it doesn’t.

https://example.com/?p=N redirects work

https://example.com/category/post-name/ redirects don’t work

that link really doesn’t have anything pertaining to my problem. My redirects work when I have permalinks off, but instead go to my custom 404 when they are on.