...Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year.

We need another neologism - perhaps "candie", so that candid portraiture is once again an acceptable form of photography...

Hi guys

Right. As you may have seen elsewhere, I've only really got my site running properly in the last couple of weeks. I'm on WP 3.5 and the standard latest Symbio theme/child theme combo.

Has anyone had any major issues with the WP 3.6 upgrade?

Chers
Russell

Can I have the views of the panel please.

When I set up my JustHost account, I added in Sitelock for security (I though that with it being WP, a belt and braces approach to security was wise).

I ended up going for the middle ground package (costs ~90USD) and a scan last night picked up this --

For the newest issue that you have having with the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability. That is caused by a weakness in the code of the Wordpress in itself. On your site you have the search bar on the top right. The code weakness is in there. Cross site scripting vulnerabilities is a quite serious issue as that is where hackers can steal anything they want from your visitors. Even though you might not be asking for customers information on your website, they can trick them into getting whatever information they want. This is where phishing attacks start as well.

The solutions to get this fixed are:
-If you are good at coding, you can get into the code and try to fix the code weakness
-We can fix it with a one time solution.
-You can get a web application firewall that won't fix the coding issue but will block people from being access it.

I've emailed Sitelock back to ask if this would affect the whole raison d'etre of Symbiostock, namely the ability to search across sites/the Network.

Also, I suspect the "fix with a one time solution" option would incur yet more outlay of shekels.

What are the panel's thoughts?

Ta

Russell

ETA: I have the Wordfence plugin installed which includes a firewall but will this be enough?

I'm looking at Amanda's Creative Embers resources on customising the child theme CSS but my WP Dashboard looks nothing like the screenshots.

I've got an Editor under appearance but no specific "Edit CSS" option and certainly no ability to preview before saving. I can get to the child theme CSS using the Editor but there's no Preview or Publish options

Is there a plugin I'm missing?

Russell

Finding images on my site (Stockphotology) is made difficult on two fronts -

If I search for images using the search box on my site, I get hits from other Symbio sites but none, zip, nada from my own unless my site is the only one with images with that keyword.

So for example, searching using "bubble" gets a number of hits across SY but not on mine despite me having a number of "bubble" images.

On the other hand, searching for "orangutan" gets most of my orangutan images but not all of them - "Results" is the correct number (23) but only 20 images are shown with no "next page".

Also, if I try to find my images via "Image Categories", the number of "Results" is again correct but now a half of the images or even less are shown, even if the Category contains a few pages worth of images.

Any thoughts?

Is there a box I haven't ticked that I should or a box that I have ticked that I shouldn't?

PS - I've added the "Search" problem to Ron's thread.

Hi people

Just started on the SY path and have got so far but before I go any further, I want to move my WP/SY files away from the web root directory to a subdomain to which I'm going to point a domain name hosted with a different company.

Searching on here, it seems there were problems if WP/SY wasn't installed in the web root directory (back in March). Is this still the case or can I safely move them to a non-root directory on a subdomain?

Any thoughts?

Russell

Hi guys

I'm not yet part of SY but will be within the next month or two. Obviously, I look at your sites to get a feel for things and like what I see. Every one I've visited so far uses English for its text.

Some of you could do with a proofreader and/or copywriter (no, not a copyrighter, a copywriter). Please excuse me if I appear to be unintentionally patronising or superior with what follows but I do see quite a few sites with errors of phrasing and grammar and occasional spelling mistakes in the text on home pages etc. Mostly, they're minor errors but, well, an error is an error and unfortunately, software grammar and spelling correction is unreliable.

I suspect that this affects those whose first language is not English more than native English speakers but the latter are not immune. I don't know if it puts off buyers or visitors but it certainly wouldn't do any harm to be accurate. I'm speculating here but I do wonder if it has any effect on SEO too (I'm by no means an SEO expert though).

So I'm offering to be a proofreader and copywriter for you. If you would like me to look over any text that you have on your Symbiostock home page or other pages, in the co-operative spirit of Symbiostock, I am happy to do so gratis/for free/nada at least for now. I will respect your confidentiality and be completely discreet about this.

I have some other thoughts (including conditions, occasional charges and things I won't do) but I'll wait until I've had some responses to this post before I discuss those.

As to my qualifications for doing this, I'm not a professional copywriter but English is my first language and I am a widely published author of scientific papers from my days in visual optics, physiology and cancer research. And I'm an unreconstructed grammar Nazi who bites his knuckles when he sees "their" instead of "they're" or "your" instead of "you're" 

So whaddya think?

Russell

PS Can you imagine how many times I proofread this post