Mr Papa said
did you clear your cache and reload the admin page from the far left menu?
Not sure what you meant by “reload … from the far left menu”. Icleared the cache OK but that didn’t work
I’m wondering if it might be an IP address issue (I’m doing this in a hotel in Mexico),
in the wp admin, on the far left side, is the admin menu… posts, pages, plugins, etc… one is forum… I was asking you to navigate to the forum admin from there… not just loading the storage location panel again from the forum accordion menus…
I dont see any way an IP would matter…
if after all that its still occurring, you might go back to your host… and make sure the whitelist rule as broad enough to handle all the admin panels… personally, if it was me, I would tell em to turn off mod security all together – it gets more false positives than true protection in my experiences…
Thanks
Will try all this and report back.
By the way, just to complicate matters, some a-hole is trying to hack into my website from a variety of IP addresses using “admin” and another username I have used elsewhere. Aaaargh!
The most annoying thing is that WordPress offers no UI for changing your own username – although it can be changed if necessary.
Also might be worth checkin gout something https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ – which we have used in the paszt
Mr Papa said
in the wp admin, on the far left side, is the admin menu… posts, pages, plugins, etc… one is forum… I was asking you to navigate to the forum admin from there… not just loading the storage location panel again from the forum accordion menus…
Tried that, it didn’t work. My Host is able to reply to posts using my login and it works. My posts are eventually turning up hours later but I seem to have lost a lot of my Admin privileges.
I’m using both WP Security and Sucuri as a belt and braces approach. I am loath to turn them off when I’m under attack but that may be where the conflict is arising.
T have passed on your comments to my host help desk.
posts show up hours later??? sounds like a caching issue… are you using any caching? if so, you need to disable it on the wp page your have the forum showing as its a dynamic page, not static…
well, there is no way or capability for simple press to delay posting of new posts… its either there or its not (assuming you are not putting posts in moderation and requiring admins/mods to approve but even then once manually approved, they would appear immediately)… still sounds like caching or perhaps CDN…
do you have a link to site so we can check and see if anything obvious?
Mr Papa said
well, there is no way or capability for simple press to delay posting of new posts… its either there or its not (assuming you are not putting posts in moderation and requiring admins/mods to approve but even then once manually approved, they would appear immediately)… still sounds like caching or perhaps CDN…do you have a link to site so we can check and see if anything obvious?
All posts and replies are moderated by me and my editors. It now makes sense that they could be seeing my posts when I am offline and OK-ing them (because they’re from me).
If that’s the case, and I’m pretty sure it is, then it seems to be part of the suite of privileges that the Forum has removed from me but that WP hasn’t. E.g. I can post to the website but not to the Forum. And I can’t send PMs either.
The website is www.flat-chat.com.au. I can send you the password (discreetly) if you wish.
wp admins and sp admins are two different things… wp admins are not sp admins unless set up to be… not sure what you mean by forum has removed you from… the app only does what you tell it to do or have set up…
on forum – admins – manage admins you can set up more users to be sp admins… you might try this for your account… of course, you need to be an admin to do so… if there are no sp admins, then all wp admins become sp admins… at install time, the only sp admin is the wp admin that installed the plugin… that sp admin can then add new sp admins…
according to your site, Jimmy T is an admin.. so try going to that page and making sure you have all the capabilities…
Mr Papa said
… the app only does what you tell it to do or have set up…
Well I didn’t set it up to stop me from posting. It just happened.
on forum – admins – manage admins you can set up more users to be sp admins… you might try this for your account…
Yes, I already tried that but SP didn’t allow me to.
of course, you need to be an admin to do so… if there are no sp admins, then all wp admins become sp admins… at install time, the only sp admin is the wp admin that installed the plugin… that sp admin can then add new sp admins…
In an ideal world, yes … but things go wrong out here in the real world and sometimes Simple Press does develop glitches. Being told I must have done some thing wrong doesn’t help. Tell me what I did wrong and I will rap myself over the knuckles just as soon as I have fixed it.