syzygist

I was able to successfully reinstall Wordfence. I am now having other issues with the site – there was a recurring banner notification that a WordPress update had not completed with a link to click to try again. That link didn’t work, but when I reinstalled the latest WordPress update from the Dashboard Updates panel, the banner disappeared. If that WordPress update had just been released, I’d think maybe I happened to manually run the Wordfence update a the same time the update was happening, but there is no new release, so I’m not sure what that was about.

Wordfence is running fine now, and I’m able to complete a scan, which shows no problems (of course, it also showed no problems before I did the update that vanquished the banner. So there goes my theory that a WordPress core file got corrupted, because wouldn’t that have come up in the scan? ).

Meanwhile, I’m having issues with a different plugin triggering a 403 error when I try to save certain settings. This is a new installation, so not sure what’s going on here, but have a ticket in with my host, and will let you know how it turns out.

Thanks – I was also wondering how to reduce the header padding, and this worked perfectly.

Meanwhile, updating the flagged files via Wordfence crashed the Dashboard of another site I manage, and this time, reinstalling did not correct the problem. You’re right, seville76, this won’t happen again, because I have replaced BackWPup on all of the sites I manage, downgraded my review, and removed it from the recommended plugins on my blog. Your competition has gotten a lot better since I last compared backup plugins. Thanks for giving me a reason to find that out.

I did replace the backwpup folder in wp-content/plugins with unzipped version of same downloaded from the plugin page, and that worked.

Am I going to have to reconfigure my backup jobs if I do that? And please explain to me why I should have to do troubleshoot this at all because you used a medium that was not appropriate for sales, incorrectly no less, in such a way that it caused my dashboard to crash? Is that even allowed?

Flag for moderators – is it permitted to add short-term promotional messages to plugin files without updating versions?

This is NOT COOL! When I used Wordfence’s bulk repair option to match these three files (since I have already repaired them manually on several sites, and am pretty pissed off at the time your inappropriately placed sale announcement has cost me), the Dashboard crashed, and I had to rename the backwpup folder via FTP to get back into my Dashboard.

Error was:
Fatal error: Class ‘BackWPup_Discount_Widget’ not found in mydomain/WordPress/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/backwpup.php on line 129

Seriously considering replacing backwpup. I wonder how many thousands of people are wasting time because of your mistake today? And not for the first time.

Actually, I didn’t need to change anything on the Recent Posts widget, so this worked to display only my custom icons in the Custom Menu:

.widget #menu-categories-menu li a {padding-left: 0;text-decoration:none}

.widget #menu-categories-menu li a:before {content: none;}

I removed the underline from the links in the menu so I could use non-breaking spaces   before the Navigation Label in my menu to space from my icons, without having an underline under the blank spaces.

Then I tweaked the bullet padding on all the other widgets a little so there would be less of a difference between the default bullet spacing and my custom icon spacing:

.widget ul li a{display:inline-block; padding-left:15px;}

Looking great now – MANY thanks, I really appreciate the help!

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by syzygist. Reason: fixed code display
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https://wp-tutor.me/glossary/

As I mentioned in my original post, I do not see anything about redirection in the htaccess file, which is why I am asking the question in the first place.

Seriously? When the WordPress core has gone through multiple major and minor updates since an author last touched a theme, users are supposed to just assume they have been monitoring it nonetheless, and no changes have been needed for the past 16 months? Especially when most of the themes in question have *never* been updated since they were released?

Maybe you do site security that way – not me. Even if the theme was fine (which users have no way of knowing), hack attempts increase exponentially with the age of the theme, whether there are known vulnerabilities or not. Presumably hackers assume a non-maintained theme is an indication of a non-maintained site and may also have vulnerable plugins (and they are often right), so at the very least, a site running a theme that hasn’t been updated in a long time will be slowed down by constant attacks.

Whatever criteria www.remarpro.com uses to select themes for the Featured section, whether a theme is being maintained certainly ought to be a part of that. Promoting themes that may have abandoned a year ago is not OK. Many users do not understand the risks, and will naturally (and reasonably) assume anything promoted by WordPress has been vetted and is safe to use.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by syzygist. Reason: typo

Thanks for your reply. I see you are right that the posts displaying are in date order. However, the 4th post (of 5) that is displaying is a sticky post. I tried making the first post in the sequence sticky, and it, too, continues to be displayed in Flash News.

May I suggest that you note the additional options for Flash News in your Free vs. Premium comparison? I think that is a feature many people would be looking for.

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I also am getting this error. Why is this thread marked as resolved when it is not?

Good question. How they got there is still something of a mystery. They all seemed to be legitimate files. I removed each one from the exclusions and ran a test scan. None of them set off any hack alarms, or made any difference in the length or resource usage of the scan. I’ll keep a closer eye on the exclusion box in the future. Thanks for your reply.

Is there ANY free backup plugin that includes a restore option? I don’t think so. Easy restores from backups are one of those things you pay for, though as many other people pointed out, you can certainly figure out how to restore your files yourself with a little research.

I have to disagree. I’m not sure three new roles are needed, but I stumbled across the extra roles by accident and was happy to be able to create an admin role specific to this plugin for a host I didn’t have a whole lot of confidence in. I have used it with two different hosts in the last week.