Oh, I tried that too! Changing the privileges to None seemed to work (or at least stop the constant new admin user additions)—but my host decided to try to delete it one last time after updating the theme to the latest version.

We’ll see—if it returns, I’ll do what you have done. But this is nonsense! I thought I was hacked and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how this greeceman got through all my security measures! What a lot of stress and time wasted.

I hope the staff at tag div responds, so we can truly know if this is a bug in newspaper/newsmag AND if it’s been solved.

One of my sites (the one that uses tag div Newspaper theme) just experienced the same thing with an admin account being created with those same credentials:

admin account
Identifier: greeceman
Email: greeceman@mail.com

Even after deleting the account, within a few hours it returned and once again I deleted it. I also escalated to my WP Managed Host who ran a bunch of scans and tools to detect malware, which they could not find.

Just updated to the latest version of Newspaper—is this issue fixed? And is this a bug in the theme or something else? It seems quite a few users had this issue.

Thank you

Hi Bettina,

Thank you for the clarification. When I toggle on the mobile theme toggle for the homepage, it populates as the homepage for both desktop and mobile AND my posts show up as the mobile theme when in desktop mode too.

So it seems that something isn’t right, where the mobile theme is either not working on the homepage, or overrides everything including when viewing the site on desktop.

I intend to set up a staging site to further test and see if a plugin is causing this problem or something else.

I also wanted to know if there is a way to fully delete the mobile plugin, rather than just deactivate it. My intention is to reinstall the mobile plugin, not just reactivate it—just in case a setting is causing the issue or something is corrupt.

I will reach out via the email you sent for further assistance if I am still unable to solve this.

Thank you

Hi Bettina,

Thank you for your response regarding the mobile theme setting in Gutenberg.

I have one question regarding that mobile theme toggle, should it be toggled on or off when using the mobile theme plugin?

Now, as mentioned in my post, I am using the Mobile Plugin and it is activated. However, my homepage is still showing as the responsive desktop theme (the same theme look as desktop) while my individual posts load in the mobile layout.

So for at least the homepage, the mobile plugin is not overriding the responsive theme.

Please see the screenshots in the original post: mobile homepage not showing up.

There are two images there: one shows the mobile homepage (that shows up as the responsive theme) and the other shows a single post on mobile (that shows up on the mobile plugin theme.)

I’ve tried a bunch of things to get the homepage to show up properly on mobile but thus far, nothing works.

I’ve cleared the cache, removed the cache plugin, deactivated and reactivated the mobile theme plugin, suspended Cloudfare from caching the site, and even rolled back to an earlier version of the Newspaper theme.

The site worked perfectly with mobile and desktop themes both appearing as expected up until last Friday, June 19th, when all of the sudden the mobile homepage started showing the responsive theme.

Any other suggestions?