So…I’m scrolling through Google Reader yesterday and I see a post in some foreign language I don’t recognize. Wait! It’s from my blog. What the …?
I deleted the post and hoped it was a one-time thing. (I’m such a optimist.) But when I checked this morning, another post, in the same language, which I think is Polish, was sitting there. And it’d already gone out to my subscribers … but today’s post wasn’t scheduled to run until between one and three. HUH?
I took several deep breaths, put my IT hat on, and started trying to figure out this problem. I opened a ticket with both WordPress (I use their application) and Bluehost (they host my website). While I wait for them to get back to me, I’ve taken matters into my own hands.
I know I have to sign in as an administrator to post, so I went to that page. Holy bamoly, there were over 300 people listed there. Most were listed as subscribers, but some as administrators. I only found one who it showed had “posted” but of course I deleted all of them. Then I started looking at the subscribers. Now these aren’t the people who signed up to have it come straight to their e-mail (I don’t think). Anyway, some of the names were perfectly normal but had a crazy e-mail address or the name was jumbled and the e-mail address was what looked like a legit g-mail address. Then there were the ones with both names and e-mail addresses that looked fine.
But, unless I recognized the name as someone who has posted a comment, emailed me or is otherwise known to me, I deleted it. I apologize if this offends anyone, but I’m shooting in the dark here trying to figure out how to clean up my website without taking it down and starting over. If you’d like to subscribe to receive in your e-mail, there is a place to do it on the right-hand side of the post under the heading “Subscribe by e-mail.”
In the meantime, I’m going to plug away to resolve this issue. If you get anymore non-English posts from me, ignore them.
~ Kay
