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Ironically my use of the offending code hasn’t stopped me commenting in here ??

Thanks, before trying that I have more information which might help?

I just re activated the Jetpack plugin and posted a few test comments which posted fine. Then I copied and pasted the same comment that caused the Invalid security token error and got the exact same problem.

So there’s a strong implication that it was choking on something in this specific comment.

I had used a little html markup including 2 text links and a blockquote section, as well as a word encased in

So by taking out one at a time I was able to discover the specific thing that seems to have caused the error and it was this bit

they 

I use the   because emphasis markup always slants the word so much that it joins up with the next word so I force and extra space. When I removed the   the comment posted OK.

Can anyone make any sense of this?

Apologies. I’ve now realised that the email notifications of new (spam) members were coming from my IP Board forums on the same domain.

I can confirm that I had mistakenly thought all the emails were coming from WordPress but in fact they were from my forum – DOH!

UPDATE: I’ve just discovered it could be forum registrations I’m getting notified about and not WordPress because I searched for a phrase in the emails “You can turn off user notification in the Admin Control Panel. Have a super day!” and can see articles about IP Board and I have a forum on the same domain.

Did you get to the bottom of this Robg48? I’m having the exact same problem and it’s driving me mad.

Getting spam registrations every half an hour. I have “anyone can register” turned off. Register Plus, Limit login attempts and Stop Spammer registrations plugins all activated but nothing stops them.

They never post any comments (I moderate comments anyway) and they don’t show up as members.

I even have WordPress set to only send notification emails once members have been validated plus I’ve removed any links to register but nothing is stopping them. The emails announce –
“You have received this email because a new user has completed their registration!” but there are no new members showing.

I also have 4 other wordpress installations on same server which are not affected.

That’s great news thanks ??

I have exactly the same problem –

I’ve just started using Relevanssi Search and it’s great. I will almost certainly upgrade to the paid for version. However, I have a bug to fix first.

When I configure search to highlight query terms, if any graphic on a relevant page contains the search query term in its name it does not display. For example, on my blog I search for TOC, and there is 1 page in the results, this page contains a graphic called TOC.png which no longer displays.

This seems to be because Relevanssi changes the name of the graphic in order to try and highlight it. The graphic is here –
https://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/TOC.png

But on the search results page the link is changed to a none existent –
https://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/%3Cspan%20style=’background-color:%20#ffaf75′>TOC</span&gt;.png

I’ve replicated this fault on other pages, and it only seems to affect any image with a name containing the searched for term.

Due to lack of an answer ?? I had to edit every instance manually. It took around 8 hours. The puzzle was that all ￡ signs and other characters were perfectly ok in all the articles and only appeared in comments – and then only in a percentage of them. There were examples of comments that did not have this issue despite containing the affected characters such as “￡” and “&”.

Due to the fact that no articles were affected and only (roughly) 70% of comments I can’t see how it could have been a character code declaration issue.

As it happens I found around 20 or more broken links in the comments whilst doing the laborious task, and generally tidied up some things, so it was probably for the best in the end but how and why it happened is a mystery.

My main concern is, not knowing what caused it – how do I stop it happening again if I have to restore my database from MyPHP admin?

Many thanks James. I did try that before but it went badly wrong, I presumably got the syntax wrong. I just tried

RedirectMatch permanent ^/wordpress/index.php$ https://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/ and it seems to have worked.

What I don’t understand is why WordPress hasn’t done this for me? When I copied the index.php file over to the root and told wordpress the home page was in the root, then did the permalinks I don’t understand why wordpress didn’t write to the htaccess files this change instead of leaving all old links to my blog home page broken.

According to the wordpress instructions for moving an index page from a sub folder to the root you should have .htaccess files in both places as well as index.php in both places (simply copy them across), but something seems to have gone wrong because WordPress should surely redirect requests for /wordpress/index.php to the new index.php in the root but it doesn’t. Instead it goes to my blog, with everything displaying ok but with a 404 page not found display.

I had lots of problems including database errors until I deleted everything in the original /wordpress/.htaccess file and left it blank.

Currently I have this in my root folder –

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

but in the old /wordpress/ folder the .htaccess is completely blank and wordpress has chosen not to write anything to it. Is this normal?

Many thanks

Andy

Try settings/under the bonnet and clear cache

OK> Sorry for the multiple posts but this threa may still serve to help someone else in the future.

I’ve fixed the not being able to see drafts by clearing the cache and history in my browser and logging out of the control panel and back in.

The only issue remaining a puzzle is why wordpress hasn’t rewritten all the urls to my categories and left my links broken after moving the index.php out to the root folder and why it now no longer works with the permissions I previously had set on the htaccess and appears to need 777 or some of my blog articles generat mysqul errors.

I’ve just realised why my links to categories and tags don’t work. I’ve had to delete the /wordpress/ in each of the links. I’ve had to go through all my pages and edit the links manually. I have no idea why I’ve had to do it manually but at least I’ve solved that one.

I still need help on why I can no longer preview any pages or draft articles and get “You do not have permission to preview drafts.”. It’s bizarre that I apparently have permission to create and even change published articles but just not see a draft.

Why also does my blog no longer work with the htaccess file chmod’d to 640 and needs 777 or parts of my blog give database errors?

lol: I commonly want to reply to comments but don’t always have time to do so at the time of moderation so I use the email notification emails to go through to reply to the comment sometimes days later.

dworsky. It definitely accounted for my duplicate emails. I have all three boxes ticked – and always have

E-mail me whenever Anyone posts a comment
A comment is held for moderation
Before a comment appears An administrator must always approve the comment

However I only received duplicate emails after changing the general settings email to a different one to the one I have as the author. (I am the only author of articles on my blog btw)and as soon as I changed it back the very next comment wanting moderating only got sent to me once.

If I had other authors on my blog presumably I might still get duplicate emails if one of their articles acquires a new comment?

On my set up it seems that if all the boxes are ticked WordPress doesn’t send an email to the author and the admin if they are set to same email address but if they are different email addresses it emails them both.

Regarding the notifications I’m under the impression that as an administrator I should receive an email notification about all approved new comments? It’s all a bit strange as before as soon as I’d moderated a comment and allowed it I would get another email advising me a new comment has been posted but they have stopped dead.