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WordPress: How to login, passwords and publish an article
Password update 4/1/25 Log in Page https://www.beacontechnology.com/news/wp-login.php?loggedout=true&wp_lang=en_US
User: admin Password: Lo@dingDock$7600
User: beacon Password: ULpk#EZhH*D@H4@7
3/31/25 Scott restored WordPress today
WordPress got an unlawful entry via admin, we found out 3/31/25, WordPress was not functioning and pop up ad showed up saying your machine is infected. Scott Brinker did a revert from Backblaze on 3/31/25 and restored WordPress, however the intruder came in again the next day 4/1/25 at 5 am. Scott did another restore from Backblaze on 4/1/25 and changed the passcode on admin where the intruder came in. Beacon is now running WordPress 6.7.2
Beacon News Owners Manual 3/16/17 Chris and I wrote this today.
Login: www.beacontechnology.com/news/wp-admin I log in as admin to add new articles Will be at Dashboard in upper left Click on New at top Post Add title, this is also where the Recent Post show up in the upper left. Add picture (click on add media) , click on upload files at the top, then drag image in white area or click button to “Select Files” then click on insert into post in the lower right. Add text Associate a url to the product Select the category on the right side that is belongs to on the right. You can add a new category If you have a long article, you click on the read more icon on the top that looks like a sandwich. First click on where you want the paragraph to break then click on the sandwich icon at the top and it will break there. Click on Publish on the right side. You can always save a draft in the upper right side. Or you can look at the Preview button in the upper right to see what it looks like on the website. To add a link, high light the text you want a link and then click the chain icon at the top
_ Updated plugins and WP core to 6.3 (current) 8/16/23 -CJS