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It’s not my intent to be rude or unnecessarily redundant and I really hope you won’t take offense at the directness of my response, however; those sentiments contains some of the most fundamental examples of why PCI compliance exists in the first place.

There are so many legitimate resources regarding the storing of CC/customer data, PCI DSS, merchant rules and regulations, and third party processing services, that continuing to seek an answer in a WordPress forum seems odd, or even a little suspect at this point.

Certainly, if you are the compliance officer for your business, you must already have some excellent sources of information that can point you toward the resources necessary to correctly answer your questions, and help custom tailor a solution for your unique situation.

No offense taken and it’s not rude at all – I appreciate you trying to help.

The issue is that my POS system is a completely closed system, meaning that if I have an online store selling gift certificates it will be totally discrete from my POS.

This would mean managing two separate client databases, one of which is absolutely useless to me when a client comes in to redeem that gift certificate (We are a day spa and all client data needs to be in my POS system so we can track their treatment history, medical history etc).

So if I have to use a 3rd party credit card system there is no way, apart from a painstaking manual process someone having to enter all those client’s details in to my POS system, but even then my POS will have none of the payment details, so to find out how much is on a given gift card, i would then have to look on the online database for their purchase.

Do you see the issue? It’s nothing untoward or criminal – It’s just a case of trying to be efficient and not using two entirely separate systems to manage payment and client info.

If there was some way of just securely taking credit card details without charging, these could then be manually inputted and charged each day in to my POS system. That way, the details would be secure and i would just have one system for all purchases.

Finally, even as the PCI compliance officer, i don’t know a lot about online PCI compliance as we have one credit card terminal which is in a physical location. We’ve never had to deal or look in to online PCI before.

BINGO!!!!!

Problems solved. New theme activated, and I can upgrade forever more.

Steve and Gov, thanks for the help. You are WP ninjas and this forum rocks.

Thanks Steve! the problem is I can’t get in to the dashboard as when I ry to login, I arrive on a landing page which demands I do the upgrade.

I don’t mind seeing the theme temporarily revert to the standard 2010, if as soon as it’s done, I can just choose the new template under appearances in dashboard?

Just wanted to say thanks to both of you!

I contacted my host and then sent me info on how to backup my database.

I’ve now done a database backup both to the server and to my computer (the suffix is .sql.zip – hopefully this is the correct file).

The Root folder on my server just has three directories:

backup
cgi-bin
htdocs

So I’ve done a local backup of the entire htdocs folder which contains the three WP folders (WP-ADMIN, WP-CONTENT & WP-INCLUDES) along with everything else for the site.

I’ve also locally backed up the backup folder, as well as the most recent backup version just by itself.

I think I’m ready to change the twentyten theme as instructed, but do I need to do anything else in terms of backups or precautions before I proceed?

Also, which is the best way to go: Child theme or move my custom theme in to a different folder and edit the style.css?

The “best” in my case may be simplest, however, I’m having some issues with the site/pages taking a long while to load so if one has a advantage of being more efficient/optimized then I’d like to do that.

Thanks again for all your help guys – I can’t tell you how much this has stressed me out and I’d be lost without the advice.

Thank you both for the help!

Here’s the version information:

* The WordPress version string
*
* @global string $wp_version
*/
$wp_version = ‘3.0.1’;

@steve – this makes me think the problem is something else but I have a feeling your scenario is still correct – I just want to make sure you understand the issue; I can’t actually get in to the WP dashboard. When I go to log in to WP, I can’t actually get in to the dashboard as I get that update message. Unless you have a another meaning for the word dahboard?

@gov – I do like the idea of the child theme – thanks for the link. It looks like I may be on my own with this.

Could either of you clarify exactly what you maan by datdabase?

There is a folder: root: /backup/sql/_db

With .sql files – is that my database backup?

Sorry for the noob questions, I’m fairly tech savvy, but want to make sure I’m getting the terms right as this isn’t my field.

Thanks again!!!!