[JoPP-Public] New theme for JoPP website [was: Re: Jopp Web Site: Server error 503]

Sat Oct 17 07:13:09 CEST 2015

Hi all

No-one has expressed an opinion on the CMS theme apart from Johan, who said he would prefer to keep the old theme as it has more character than generic WordPress white backgrounded themes. I don't know if the existing theme can be salvaged. In any case we need to get the site up and running again so the fem(un)hack editors can upload their content for their issue.

Since Peter Troxler is now on board to help with CMS issues, it would be greatly appreciated if he could (when humanly possible) get in touch with Javier to sort out the following:

1-implementation of his workaround (suggested below) to salvage original CMS theme;

2-if not possible to salvage original theme, use of https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyten/ as stopgap measure;

3-checking of CMS to make sure no infected files are present;

4-updating of plugins, widgets etc on CMS.

Concerning the surveys site, we have not been able to contact Jarkko Moilanen so will put that to the side for the moment (unless it affects the rest of the domain? but that seems doubtful).

Thanks to Peter and Javier for their help and for letting us know when they have some news on this front.

cheers,

Mathieu (on behalf of jopp core team)

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From: jopp-public-bounces at lists.ourproject.org <jopp-public-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of Dr. Peter Troxler <trox at fabfolk.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 17:19
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Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] New theme for JoPP website [was: Re: Jopp Web Site: Server error 503]

Hi all

have you considered generating static html for the public site from a non publicly accessible site with the current theme?

this could be a quick and easy to implement workaround, check wordpress.org<http://wordpress.org> for corresponding plugins

/ Peter

On 14 Oct 2015, at 05:54, Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au<mailto:mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi all

Javier (who looks after P2P Foundation servers) has investigated and reported that the JoPP website has been compromised. He has taken steps to fix this: thank you so much Javier!

An urgent task is that we need to change the WordPress theme as this appears to be a source of the problem. I feel bad about this for the Fem(un)hack eds who are, very naturally, experiencing anxiety about this hiccup. At the same time, we are all volunteers and sometimes in volunteer projects things take a bit longer to fix. But, they will be fixed. On the positive side (for me) I'm happy to change themes.