I am trying to work on Wordpress website that hasn't been updated in quite some time. All the sudden there are some weird issues:
• The footer is not linking
• The contact forms are no longer linking
• Half the layout is missing on some pages
Nothing has been changed on this site. No plugins have been updated... nothing.
I've been looking through the coding, and I can't seem to find what's going wrong or why the contact forms have stopped working.
The website is Marshcreek.com
Please help!
If you have a backup, run a file comparison between the current copy and the backup. My files have been purged in the past through unfortunate maintenance routines.
I would recommend speaking with your Host and ask them if they have upgraded / changed anything on the server?
I have however noticed the following, the first image is the HTML from the index
And this is the HTML from the Memberships page?
at the bottom there is 4 <div style="clear:both"></div>? Is this how it should be because this may explain where the footer has gone in this example!
Also if you have any backups of the site you may wish to take a look at them as they may help recover some of the structure
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My coding knowledge is super basic but Hostinger's support sent me to this platform to hopefully find a solution.
Situation: I have successfully installed the SSL certificate but I keep losing the padlock because of mixed content. I checked Whynopadlock for the issues, it gave me two images as 'soft failures'. I deleted those from my Wordpress library. I've installed Really Simple SSL, Force SSL and tried Search & Replace. I've changed the url in Elementor but I keep getting these errors.
Please, can someone help me, with some clear info as my coding knowledge is limited to making some minor changes in css.
Thanks so much in advance!
In your homepage, there are 3 images that are still loading under http instead of https. These images are:
http://cortijolamorera-com.preview-domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ligature-symbols_2-11-0_quote_225_13_bdc3c7_none.png
http://cortijolamorera-com.preview-domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Algemeen7-scaled.jpeg
http://cortijolamorera-com.preview-domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/evie-shaffer-728405-unsplash-edited.jpg
All these images appear to load from lazysizes.js. The easiest way would be to delete these photos from the media library and upload them again. Otherwise, you can either check your setting in the lazysizes plugin or search and replace the urls from within the database.
I have a site with a static home page which is just one of the pages. Ive been working on the site for several weeks. Today, when I went to clear the cache to see if some links were updated, the home page switched to displaying Posts (which is the other setting under the Settings->Reading) I went to settings and sure enough display Posts is checked. No one else, that I know of has the password to this site. Does anyone know why this happened or how I can prevent it from happeneing again?
There are so many variables to consider, but it has to be a direct database manipulation. So:
Someone did in fact change it, but no one knows who
A plugin or theme changed it. Unlikely, but certainly possible. Search your plugins/theme changelog and/or support threads for similar reported issues
One thing you could do is install the plugin Stream. This logs all (well, nearly every) database manipulation and tells you when, where, and who. This way, if it happens again, you can immediately pinpoint it.
I'm using Wordpress 4.9.1–en_GB, and have a live site which has been up and live for some months without issue.
48 hours ago it suddenly (or rather I noticed suddenly) started displaying some pages as unformatted (no css) lists of links and text. The links on those pages were to another domain which directed to my site, but which has never been part of my site, and for which there is no direction within the site.
Loading and saving that one page fixed it on that page, and another page which was exhibiting the issue.
I redirected the external domain so that it would not point to my website.
Today it has exhibited the same behaviour, but with a subdomain which points to my site, but which again is not in use. Again saving the page without making any edits 'fixed' the behaviour.
I'm not asking for a fix - but whether anyone has ever experienced a similar problem, or has a pointer towards where to look, and will report back what I find, in the hope it helps someone else if it ever occurs to them.
I didn't originally build the site - it has a load of plugins, not all active and disabling and removing plugins is definitely an option - but not a great one, since the problem is not predictable, so I have no firm way of knowing whether my actions have fixed the issue, and in the meantime my commercial site will not be functioning as desired (which I appreciate is occasionally the case anyway it would seem).
It sits in Amazon EC2.
sorry for the lack of precision, but I am truly stumped.
this sounds like your website may have been breached. to address the conflict of web pages not formatting is usually the ssl not being installed correctly on the server. but if you have a lot of plugins installed it's a huge security issue and the plugins may be causing the domain issue
the plugins may be causing a conflict within each other I would recommend removing the plugins that generally don't get used.
deactivate the plugins in use and reactivate them.
use word fence security plugin to run to a scan on your website.
when I had this problem it was because the ssl was not installed on my server correctly if not that, a breach may be the cause. I hope this helps.
If the issue started within that time frame as stated that makes me more confident that this is an ssl issue. Sometimes an ssl doesn’t install correctly on a server this can cause a conflict with how the layout in css and HTML is affected. this is common in some cases, while it’s happening with the current theme your using, some WordPress themes can bypass the ssl error, I would recommend getting a new ssl from let’s encrypt and removing the one that was auto renewed through let’s encrypt. This could simply fix the problem. If not feel free to share your findings on the issue.
this is I think a really unusual case. A little backstory, I outsourced a PSD to WP project a few months ago, but not currently working with the developer anymore as he stopped replying to my support questions. I'm trying to solve this on my own before I give this to the client, as I have no more budget to hire another developer.
I have two problems, first is I couldn't access the WP dashboard even though my login is an admin account. Been trying to solve this through numerous google searches and blog posts but to no avail, I couldn't fix it.
Here goes my main problem: So I finally found a way how to update the content on the site using the phpMyAdmin backend database. (good thing I know HTML CSS)
I managed to update the content, but when I tested the site using incognito window and other profiles / browsers, the changes from phpMyAdmin does not reflect on the site. I tried logging in, and weirdly, the changes are there. I log out, changes are there.
I just find it really weird and a hassle that I have to log in to see those changes. It's a client facing site, and the changes are really important so I hope someone has experienced this before and can help me out. Thanks in advance.
I have a very strange problem with a wordpress site I made for a friend of mine. I knew about the last WP bug fixed with version 4.2.2 , so I decided to update WP. As usual I made a backup with the plugin I usually use (its name is duplicator), then upgraded and I decided to also uninstall some deactivated plugins and to install "all in one seo pack". After all this operations I noticed that below all articles there is a "404" text and I really can't understand where the hell it comes from. So I thought that I made something wrong and restored the backup to a new location to see how the site was looking at the moment I made the backup and also in the new install I can see this "404" text. Does anybody ever had a similar problem? I really can't understand what's causing this issue. Attached you will find a, example screenshot, but that identical situation happens for all articles (BUT NOT FOR PAGES).
Thank you for your help
Just some minute after asking the question on SO, I found the problem: I decided to investigate the theme's pages in the editor and I found that the page "comments.php" was composed just from the text 404, as shown in the attached screenshot. Now the question is: how can it be possible? Could that mean that my site was hacked due to the wordpress bug resolved with the 4.2.2 version?