Spammed
So. Small Strokes was spammed. There are links to purchase drugs showing up in almost a years’ worth of posts. And I didn’t put them there.
I contacted my host company, and they discovered that the problem was with the Global Translator plugin (so if you have that one, you should get rid of it!). So as much as I wanted this blog to be accessible to people who speak other languages, I can’t have that anymore because they made it possible for spammers to inject links into my site.
Needless to say, I’m frustrated. I have to manually delete the links from all of the posts which, frankly, I don’t have the time to do. Nor the patience. So I deleted the links from the posts that were through this December, and that has to be good enough. Maybe if I’m looking through archives for some reason I’ll idly delete some more, but I cannot sit here and manually delete links from 200+ posts right now. I just can’t.
If anyone has any better ideas, I’m all ears.
This plus everything going on in my life right now, and in our country right now taking away the rights of workers, women… plus the fact that I need to get into school today to put a set together… I’m cranky and stressed and upset. I think I’m just going to walk away from the computer for a while, take out some aggression (and anxiety) on set-“building” (I put building in quotes because I don’t really build anything. I just glue and paint.) and maybe come back and write a little tonight when my head is clearer.
Let’s end this on a positive life note, though, shall we? I’ve been battling an injury in my side for about four weeks now. I’m pretty sure I tore a muscle in or over my ribcage on my right side, though we’ll never know because I don’t go to the doctor unless I absolutely have to. But I could barely even walk for a while there, and I couldn’t lay on that side to save my life. For four weeks, it’s been really painful. I managed to get out of bed in the mornings to walk a few miles just to stretch it out and that seemed to be helping. Yesterday, I thought I’d do some yoga because it was feeling better enough to give that a shot. Today, I have zero pain. NONE. So that is happy.