solveeczemablog

When I logged on to the blog, the first thing that came up was a screen that said I had to update my database. I didn’t seem to have any choice but to press the button saying to update. Then it said it was successfully updated. This has never happened before — just checking — is this normal?

Thank you both for posting.

wslade, the original link you provided suggested I check the information in the wp-config file. It was different online than the last local version of it on my computer. Does this mean I was hacked? It seems really a strange thing to hack, though. If so, what can I do?

Thanks for your help. I’m still in the dark.

For some reason, WordPress updates my software automatically without asking me sometimes. I’ve never had a problem before, though. Recently, they updated the blog software 3 times in a row in rapid succession. The last time, 4.1.4 made my blog disappear, but I didn’t have the error before then. I did receive a an unusual and nonsensical comment right before it went blank, to the blog, but couldn’t find it when I logged in (received notice of it by email).

I have had the recent experience that Network Solutions made me move my website internally when my hosting package came up for renewal. I had a lot of trouble with downloading and moving the database. Everything was working, though, except the AWSTATS which for some reason I could not upload the files from my computer to NS no matter what I did. Said I needed root access. Except for that, it was all working until this latest automatic update.

I can access the files through Network Solutions and FTP, but I’ve only done that with a browser so far. Do I need to be concerned about malware or my site being hacked if I use DW? Only the blog seems affected, but maybe that’s just false sense of security.

I need to ask a favor. If you are still watching this thread and have other ideas, please describe to me what needs to be done as if you were telling a 4 year old over the phone to administer CPR to someone — you are not insulting me, I hit my limit of computer arcana probably a decade ago LOL, and I just really need real low level directions about what to do. Sorry about that.

I have a recent backup of both the database and the blog, if that helps, as well as the website. (Although figuring out which is most recent may take some doing.)

I downloaded the files of the latest WordPress update, I’m wondering if I should try for the next update just to see if that returns things to normal?

PS:

My blog is now ALSO displaying the following disconcerting error message at the top:
Warning: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /data/22/2/71/143/2071143/user/2270518/htdocs/eczemablog/wp-content/plugins/benchmark-email-lite/lib/class.settings.php on line 99

It stil loads slowly, but it’s somewhat better since I updated all the plugins I could.

I am able to get into the admin area now, but I get these error messages right across the dashboard page:

“Warning: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /data/22/2/71/143/2071143/user/2270518/htdocs/eczemablog/wp-content/plugins/benchmark-email-lite/lib/class.settings.php on line 99

“Warning: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /data/22/2/71/143/2071143/user/2270518/htdocs/eczemablog/wp-content/plugins/benchmark-email-lite/lib/class.settings.php on line 99”

I have never seen this before.

I have just upgraded all the plugins and deleted a few of them. I’ll be honest that I can’t remember which plug ins I’m using – dumb question – if it says “activate” next to one of the plugins, that’s one I can safety delete, i.e. for sure it’s not in use?? (just want to be sure)

Thank you for your help! (Pls remember the part about “speaking” slowly and over-explaining as if I am dense…)

So I inserted the text in my CSS after the last “.w p – caption ” code, and saved it, but when I go in to the editor to edit my post, the “tab” still doesn’t do anything, nothing will indent… Do I need to indent using html code only?

Thanks for asking about justifying text — it appears (egg on my face) that I did fix the unjustify by changing the css code, I just wasn’t seeing it because I needed to reset my browser.

However, I would like for the *sidebars* to be justified the way they were — is there any way to separate those two, the sidebar justification from the main post text justification? (Am I just imagining that the sidebar text was justified previous to my making that change? I’m pretty sure it was!)

Thanks for your help!

P.S. If you could also please help me change this gravatar, I never assigned this and I don’t want to spend an afternoon figuring out how to get rid of it!

Oh, my blog is solveeczema.org/eczemablog

And trying to put the html for the “nonbreaking spaces” doesn’t display right here in this forum, so please don’t get on me for that! I do at least know rudimentary html!