A reader used a robots.txt file and has entered our blog.
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We found this title for an article that is not ours in the list of posts visisted today: “The Best 90 Minutes of My Life – Thurston Moore” which is not ours. When we clicked on the link Firefox crashed. We then looked for the title on Google and this is what we found: “Block or remove pages using a robots.txt file”. Can you help us with this please? Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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“The Best 90 Minutes of My Life – Thurston Moore”
What is the URL of this article you refer to please?
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If anyone is posting anything to your blog then you have provided them with the ability to do so either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.
Who, aside from you, has access to your login information?
Go to your email program immediately and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs.
1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.
2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/
4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.
6. Set up two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/
Then read this please knowing that blogs don’t get hacked when security protocols are followed. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/
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I haven’t allowed anyone to post to my blog. The title of the post appears in the list of read posts today. When I clicked on the link for the article “”The Best 90 Minutes of My Life – Thurston Moore” Firefox crashes. I looked in Google to see if this title appears anywhere and took me to this page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156449?hl=en (Block or remove pages using a robots.txt file). Unfortunately I don’t know how to remove the title from the generated list of posts read/viewed in my blog today. But I noticed that many people were added to my blog this week by wordpress. I have no control of the people that want to “follow” my blog and decide who gets added and who doesn’t.
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Does this post appear in your blog – yes or no?
The Best 90 Minutes of My Life – Thurston Moore -
The answer is “yes”.
It is here http://ainhoaaristizabal.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/the-best-90-minutes-of-my-life-thurston-moore/ -
As I can access that post at that link it is not blocked by robot txt.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to remove the title from the generated list of posts read/viewed in my blog today.
Of course you can’t. As long as that post exists on your blog and people click the link to it the visits to the post will appear in your stats.
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But I noticed that many people were added to my blog this week by wordpress. I have no control of the people that want to “follow” my blog and decide who gets added and who doesn’t.
We don’t have that kind of control unless we make a blog private.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/At WordPress.com followers are the number of readers following your blog posts and blog posts comments. Note that your followers do not need to be registered with WordPress.com, and there are several different ways that readers can become followers. Your followers receive an update, either on their Read Blogs page or via email (or both, depending on their settings) of each new post you publish. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/05/17/wordpress-com-who-follows-who/
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Hi ainhoaaristizabal,
The only way someone could have posted a blog post under your username is if they had access to your username + password or your email account associated with WordPress.com. I would strongly urge you to immediately change the passwords for both accounts to something impossible for someone to guess.
If you use a computer others have access to, you should also be sure to log out of WordPress.com and make sure you don’t authorize that computer to store your login credentials.
As for the offending post, you can log into your account and delete it at any time.
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Thanks to all for your kind suggestions, and followed them. We took care of the problem yesterday and there seems to be peace again :) Glad to be here with wordpress and having knowledgeable people like you willing to help! MANY THANKS!
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