SilentThunderStorm

My apologies, you appear to be right.

God, I hate cleaning up after other people’s messes. This site has been a nightmare.

Will check into it, then.

Obviously, then, none of my original post applies as this is *not* a ‘The Events Calendar’ calendar at all. Will start looking at the Eventbrite side of things, then.

Thank you for your help.

Better information can be found here:

These are encryption keys to keep the cookies set on a viewers computer to be secure.

You don’t have to remember any of the keys, rather, the configuration file will use and remember them for you. Since it uses the same set of keys to encrypt and decrypt the cookies, this is the only place they need to be stored.

Changing them requires the user to log in again, because the old cookie, with the old encryption key, can no longer be read.

Any sequence of letters, numbers and symbols can be used… you could even simply put your name in each of them. Using the link, however, will result in random garbage, simply because this is far harder to crack.

A further recommendation (per that same page): NOTE: Since Version 2.6, wp-config.php can be moved to the directory directly above the WordPress application directory.

Doing this, and correctly setting permissions will help keep this file secure. Keep in mind that this file contains your database pathname, username, password, as well as your encryption keys. Keeping this file secure should be paramount.