Mysterious, autonomous entry in my website sidebar
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A speech by Michele Obama mysteriously appeared in my marshallsquarepark.org sidebar (without a photo); I did not do it. My organization is furious.
Do you know how this could happen? Could it be that I have other WP sites? Or was I hacked? (wcborodems.org is also my site. In October, I added that speech with a photo. Could it somehow “migrate” to marshallsquarepark.org?) Help! Lane Randall, Webmaster
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Where exactly is this speech? I don’t see anything out of place in the sidebar of marshallsquarepark.org
There is a Display WordPress Posts widget which will display a list of posts from another site, but I don’t see that active on the site, and it also only lists post titles, not post content.
I see a video of Michelle Obama on wcborodems.org’s sidebar. It was added to that site using a text widget. There is no way that could automatically move to another site.
Without seeing the speech in question on your site there is no way for me to determine how it might have gotten there.
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Hi Kokkieh,
Thanks for replying to my question.
You don’t see the speech on the marshallsquarepark.org (FMSP) site because an officer (R) of the group DEMANDED I take it down IMMEDIATELY — before I even knew it was there.
I put the link on wcborodems.org (Dems) shortly after MO gave the speech and never noticed it on the FMSP site—most likely because her photo wasn’t above the link as on the Dems site.
I DID NOT purposely put this on the FMSP site, which is why I sought out the WP forum. Then, one day, I was posting to the Dems site and realized I was in the FMSP site. FMSP is the first website in “My Sites” and Dems is the last. I separated the two purposely to avoid this mistake, which hasn’t ever happened in ten years. Nonetheless, now I know how this can happen, but I still don’t know why—or still even how—it happened.
So, it remains a mystery to me logically, but shouldn’t to you technically. However implausible to me, it is certainly possible.
Anyway, I appreciate what you do and thank you for the time you took to help me. At the very least, I hope you like mysteries. 😎
Lane
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FMSP is the first website in “My Sites” and Dems is the last.
That is actually the only thing that makes sense in this case – that you posted to the wrong site by mistake. I’ve made that error myself more than once.
The widget I mentioned, or an RSS widget, are the only ways posts from one site can automatically appear on another, and you have neither of those on your sites. There is no way whatsoever that the content posted to a widget on one site can appear on another site, as content in widgets don’t form part of any feed on your site and cannot be exported.
Which leaves human error :)
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Well… I qualify as human, so I’ll own up to error. Thanks very much or settling this for me!
While you’re here, how do I get WP to recognize my new password? Many times, I’ve clicked update after keying my new password; however, when I sign in again, it flags my “updated” password making me key the new one again. I never had this trouble with my old password.
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Do you mean it says the password is incorrect? I don’t see any password resets on your site, and the password was last changed two weeks ago.
The only thing I can think of is to try updating your password again in your account settings, and make very sure of what it is. Let me know if after doing that it still gives problems with the very newest password. (Keep in mind passwords are case sensitive)
Please don’t post your password here :)
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