zeekstern

OK. I found a few sites that explains how WP works as well as the WP themes. I will read those tomorrow as well as the links you gave me. By then I will have a better understanding of how WP works and what I need to do to my site.

After reading all that, maybe I’ll find out how those phantom posts got onto my website. The date on the earliest post goes back to March of last year.

In any case, thanks again for your help!! I’ll go ahead an mark this as resolved.

Really? If that is the case, is it possible that the DB has code in it that goes out and scrapes up the new content?

I see in my notes where there is a phpMyAdmin User and a Database User and Passwd. So I will change the DB user/passwd. I didn’t see a passwd for phpMyAdmin, but if there is a way to change that, I will do that too. That link you gave me probably has it in there.

Now I’m wondering how in the world a WordPress site can rank good in Google if the data is in the DB. There wouldn’t be much for the bots to read when it gets to the site other than meta data:)) I can see where I have a lot of reading to do about WP.

Thanks Hassan. Much appreciated!!

Thank you very much for the quick reply and link for the guidelines.

I am pretty sure someone can’t get in via cPanel, but not sure about WP dashboard. I have been familiarizing myself with the dashboard and just saw where there are 566 posts Pending. Do you know where these Pending posts are stored? Wouldn’t they have to be somewhere in a directory on my website underneath WP? So far they are all spam scraped content from other websites and I am deleting them.

I only have a few plugins (3 or 4) and the one that appears to be killing me is that one I mentioned earlier. I wouldn’t think the www.remarpro.com site would allow a plugin with malicious code on their website.

Thanks again for your help!! I’m off to read the hardening guidelines. Maybe I can find something in there to shed some light on what is going on.

I am interested in what you changed to also, bdsr. I might not be able to install, but I sure as heck can delete directories real good:))

I’m no expert with backwpup, I’m still trying to get it to install:))
But, the type of errors you have up there normally are due to:
1. Permission problems
2. File or directory does not exist.

I checked my unzipped file and there is no directory tinymce at all.

I don’t have a fix, but that is the problem:))
good luck!!

I am not an expert in DBs, but I think the problem is with the WordPress database limitation and not with your host. With other applications you can have multiple databases which will get you by this problem if WP allows it.

There are tons of good hosting sites. Mine has 7 or 8 free domains with separate IPs for each, unlimited traffic etc for a few bucks a month. we can’t post stuff like that here but if you can find a way to contact me, I can give you a list of the 5 or 6 that I found. I researched this for about a week before I moved my hosting:))

Me too. Try refresh, CTRL+r or clear cache

Your ftp issue- It looks like you are using the FTPD instead of the correct ftp program. The FTPD is used to allow people to ftp to and from your site. By default, this daemon is normally turned off. It must be configured with specific user accounts and passwords. You do not want to use this.

Instead, go to your Shell manager or whatever utility you have that allows you to access files on your site. Once inside, you will see things like copy, move, and upload. The upload is what you want.

Hope this helps,
Zeek