Scatmanat

Joachim,

Oddly enough I tried replacing “_top” with “_blank” and it didn’t work. I tried again and it did.

Go figure.

Thanks,

Craig

Sorry, at a quick glance I thought they were the same. Thanks!

I don’t pay for that app so it just directs me back here for help.

The ad in question is the 2024 MTB Shoutout one, it’s one of the ones with “_top”.

“I would recommend doing without such information” what information?

What about the fact that all that other stuff is going on? is there any reports of the latest WP update effecting peoples current sites?

If you can believe it, the culprit was Yoast SEO.

Arran,

Thanks for the response but I’m in the dark here. I don’t even know what an Ad ID is never mind the page you sent me too. Pretend I’m Forest Gump and have no clue.

There are three things to do with this widget from what I can tell. Name it, Choose what you want to use this widget for, and Fill in the ID of the type you want to display! I pretty much can only name my widget.

Sorry to be frank but every time I ask a question I get cryptic answers where the person assumes I’m Steven Hawkins and I’m always left in the dark.

john,

thanks. I edited my post with the database name, can you do the same so it’s not on here.

I’ll be in touch if my next attempt fails.

John,

I have almost no knowledge of what I’m doing here so I’m lost when you suggest looking at my comments. What do they have to do with the query not running because it can’t find my database?

John,

My site is newly backed up and I ran the query and as you can see above it didn’t work. Suggestions as to why it’s saying my site doesn’t exist?

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a€?
a€?
a€?

Those are a few I’m getting

I found a query I can run in mysql database that will find and replace the code but when I ran it I got the following:

SQL query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE( post_content, ‘a€?’, ‘“’ ) ;

MySQL said: Documentation
#1146 – Table ‘example.com.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist

The query came from this site:
https://www.wprecipes.com/easily-remove-weird-characters-from-your-wordpress-database

bancofiat.net this is on my list and I just got a comment with it in it.

i’m very glad i found your site. https://www.bancofiat.net

Can you explain why it’s not filtering this out?

Thanks

I already have it listed like https://www.listadeemail.org. I have just listed it as you suggested and will see what happens.

I installed my Akismet API key as it wasn’t already.

My theme is Star Blog 1.0.1 by PremiumWP, though I’m switch to a new server and theme WPZOOM Zenko

Akismet is working but only so well.

I noticed spammers take the same URL and add a word in front of it. Example

good.https://www.listadeemail.org
have.https://www.listadeemail.org
https://www.listadeemail.org
it.https://www.listadeemail.org
lot.https://www.listadeemail.org
page.https://www.listadeemail.org
please?https://www.listadeemail.org
post!!!https://www.listadeemail.org
post.https://www.listadeemail.org
regards.https://www.listadeemail.org
right?https://www.listadeemail.org
sharing.https://www.listadeemail.org
thanks.https://www.listadeemail.org
things.https://www.listadeemail.org
this.https://www.listadeemail.org
up.https://www.listadeemail.org
visitors.https://www.listadeemail.org
worker.https://www.listadeemail.org

So is there a way to isolate the URL so I don’t have to add every word in the English language. As it would appear spammers have more time than I do.

Thanks!