Blog Twilight Zone
Well, my blog fell into a strange and awful twilight zone where time bent and code ran amok. I am not sure if my site was hacked or not but it is back on now; and, it’s about time.
I’ve had trouble keeping my own blog going since I manage so many others. As a result mine had been left untended. I checked in about 5 months ago and found the home page wasn’t resolving. Some error had taken over. Today, I finally had the time to figure it out. Imagine that? If I let a client’s blog go unattended that long I’d surely be fired. Maybe I should hire someone to manage my stuff.
Anyway, I digress.
Somehow several vital sections of my header.php file had been altered. For instance elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ; bloginfo('name'); } had been replaced with elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ; bloginfo(?name?); }
Notice the ?name? section? Well, I have no idea how those got there. I certainly didn’t do it. As I inspected the file I found another odd character replacement wherein this expected line: else { wp_title("",true); } ?> was replaced with this one: else { wp_title(??,true); } ?> Question marks abound both literally and figuratively.
In the end it only took about 5 minutes to figure it out. The onscreen error messages pointed me in the right direction. Filezilla, Notepad++ and a little tour of the WordPress Codex got me back on track.
So, now that the blog is back up do you think I’ll be blogging more regularly? Probably not, not here at any rate. At some near point I’ll move my entire main site over to WordPress, which I love by the way, and will be blogging there. But, since I haven’t updated in OVER A YEAR I kind of figure no one is really paying attention, so maybe this will all go under the radar.
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