Melissa,

sorry to hear you may be having some difficulties, but I sincerely would be sad to see you go..

If you decide to leave, like the others have said before me, you will lose everything. Your domains are your but you would have to transfer them out of wealthy affiliate to some other hosting platform.

Make a educated decision,

Barbara

Hi Melissa, I really hope this does not have to happen. I can totally relate though. I was able to make it through another month, and I sure hope you will be able to. You are an important part of WA.

Sorry I can't click on the like button.

Wishing you all the best,
Michael

This is an answer that Kyle gave another member with the same concerns.

"Unfortunately, you cannot downgrade to Starter, however you will be able to resubscribe to your Premium account at any time and reconnect your membership (when you can make it back). ;)

We also host your website for 30 days beyond the cut off date, which gives you time to still work on it or move it to another host in the meantime."

I hope this helps. And I sure do hate to see you have to stop.

Laura

Here's updated info that Kyle posted.
What happens to my hosting if I cancel my membership at wa? Here's some help that Marion has offered.

https://marionblackonline.com/move-website-from-wealthy-affiliate/

I am not sure with the new rules starting. Someone should have a good answer though.

Hey Melissa,

After trying unsuccessfully using Honeypot plugin, I removed the contact form (deleting an unnecessary plugin!) and then did this: Get Rid of Spam from Website Hope you find this helpful.

If you can't use Askimet for whatever reason you might consider switching autoresponders. I use AWeber. It is a monthly charge that you may not be ready for yet. But I get very little to no spam on all three of my sites.

Laura

Also, do you have the "anyone can register" box unchecked under settings then general? Just a thought.

Hi Melissa
Install a plugin called Akismet and it will block virtually all spam messages

Cheers
Dave 🙂

There's a plugin called Akismet Anti Spam which is made for this purpose.

It's free, you just have to install it and set it up in order for it to work properly.

It will block out 99% of spam without you having to go through each comment and see which one is spam and which one isn't.

With the way we set up our websites in Wealthy Affiliate, categories DO NOT rank. They are no-indexed using the All-In-One SEO Pack.

You CAN change the settings to have categories rank using the same plugin, and many people do. However, it's not "necessary" to do so. Here's why: A category is a list of content excerpts from blog posts. The content on those same blog posts already ranks as a post. Google normally won't pay attention to the same blog post twice. So since your post is ranking, the category containing the same content from that blog post will not rank.

Occasionally you'll see situations where it does rank, especially if you fill out all the meta details in your category options, plus maybe add an introduction to the category (unique content).

Most of the time this will not have a huge effect on rankings, and it's only something I'd do if you are really refining your traffic funnel and optimizing your site with minor tweaks.

If I have a Category "DRUGS" and contents Effects of drugs, Drugs and pregnant ladies etc, I think If my website is powerful, Drugs(category) get ranked and exposes the reader to all the contents in that category making the reader spend more time in your website. Although the contents would be highly ranked too as per the search engine.
For baby websites, content rocks. I hope I made a bit of sense.

Good question! I have wondered about the same thing.

Categories can be competitive or some categories can be a little less. But the one that will make you succeed, in your question the one that will help you get ranked is content. 🏅🥉🥇🏆🥇🥈

Give this a try, I just found it: How to put a border around text in wp?

it is all down to css styling - and will differ for each part you want to style
it's never easy is it?
but i suspect that some toc plugins are capable of adding a border and others don't
so it is down to you whether you add learning css to your list of todo's or try to find a plugin which does that
if you know of a site that as the style you are after then you can look at the area to try to find out which plugin they are using or try
whatwpthemeisthat.com which tries to show what plugins that site uses - i am sure there are others.
i think going to the block editor gives you an edge over the classic editor as this maybe a standard feature of each block now.
have fun
phil

Hey Melissa,

Check out the screen print below...

Hope you find this helpful.

Hi Melissa
I wouldn’t publish your email address on your site in the form of a hyperlink as it’s a target for spammers.
I would use a link to a contact form on your contact us page.

Cheers
Dave

Hey Melissa,

You may find the following video helpful: Get Rid of Spam from Website Hope this helps you.

But if you still want to do it then you can add it as mailto:abc@efg.com

No harm in knowing how to do it :)

Marion has some great advice!

In my opinion, it's not a good idea to set yourself up for scraper bots to find your email address because then you would get heaps of spam emails. Don't even use the @ symbol, replace it with [at].