Shane Gowland

It’s the same as the key you use for Akismet.

.htaccess is a plain text file. It cannot be “infected” per se, only manipulated by adding rules with malicious intention. Your site has been hacked by an attacker.

You should be able to open it and remove the lines that are redirecting users. If you can’t find them, simple delete the file via FTP and then replace it with a new one.

Make sure you change your hosting account passwords, update WordPress and all your plugins to the latest version and make sure .htaccess is not world writeable – CHMOD 644.

Read over some WordPress security guides and hopefully you won’t get hacked again.

You would also need to remove (or replace) this line in your other header.php template file.

<style type="text/css">
body { background-color: #FFFFFF; }
</style>

Changing this would invalidate the need to perform the instructions I posted above.

It could also be that your sites traffic is too much for your web hosting account to handle, and it’s time to upgrade.

I believe they are the same thing. I would confirm that, but your pages source code is murderously difficult to read and I’m pressed for time 😛

The first one – RE theme recommendations.

Look around the big theme marketplaces and stores. My personal favourites are WooThemes and Themeforest.

Second question – RE Like buttons.
I always prefer to have social networking widgets/icons build directly into my theme. I’ve made my own Facebook button using the API which sites in the sidebar of one of my sites (http://freewareninja.com/)

Here is the code I used: (You will need to replace the URL obviously)

<div align="center" style="clear:both;">
<div align="center" style="width:260px;background-color:#F3F3F3;border:1px solid #ccc">
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Freeware-Ninja/211784108839935&width=260&colorscheme=light&show_faces=false&stream=false&header=false&height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:62px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
</div>
</div>

You’re right that there are not many Twitter buttons available that look good. I use the official Twitter button inside my posts themselves on a few site. If you are just looking for a good static link I once again suggest making one yourself. You can get some good Twitter graphics from sites like iconfinder.com which you can wrap in a bordered box using the code I poster for Facebook, minus the Facebook stuff 😉

What do you mean “retrieve”? They can hardly run away…

If you mean that they are no longer loading, this is likely because of some sort of CSS/JS/HTML minification or compression that is being performed by pages served by your server. Third party services like CloudFlare can also cause problems like these.