nothing comes up when i go to my website.com/wp-admin? Which files should I look for?

Question

My hosting company (godaddy) tells me that someone has hacked my wordpress admin login and have put garbage on filesystem. My website is down. and nothing comes up when i try to get my files using mywebsite.com/wp-admin (which I use to manage my files). I am not an expert and had got the site done from outside agency.

Answer 1

I wouldn't break my mind about which files are exactly mandatory to be replaced. Just replace wp-admin and wp-includes — if he just had access to your wordpress administration I would make sure to check all of the theme and plugins files which are accessible through the administration panel if he included base64 malware code and look-a-like. There are plugins for novice users (no shame) to check for such things - this post at WPMU.org goes over free themes which isn't interesting in your case, however they cover what tools you may use in such a scenario.

Here's the Wordpress Codex Files list which gives you a good overview which files do what, what they control, what they're needed for and so on.

Some links to similar issues (blank/white page):

• http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-page-on-wp-admin
• http://www.nerdfrat.com/how-to-fix-a-wp-admin-blank-page (advanced)

Answer 2

Godaddy is usually pretty helpful when it comes to this sort of thing. You should be able to manage all of your wordpress login settings etc... through your godaddy account. Have you spoken to godaddy support?

Answer 3

To all the folks who get this kind of error a must check option. turn on error reporting if you have commented the lines in your wp-config.php

@ini_set('display_errors','Off');

and than check for error. if it has the error like this

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /[server info]/wp-config.php:77)

than check your wp-config.php for extra space at top and bottom of the page.remove extra line spaces even. and than re-upload the wp-config.php. Most of time this will solve your problem.

Happy Coding!!!!