My wordpress website has been hacked, once recovered i can't seem to view the footer. I have checked the theme options / widgets and the settings seems fine.
Kindly advise on possible causes and solutions.
website address: www.boltonuniform.co.za
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Thanks for the informative response toscho - much appreciated– Mohammed KhanFeb 22, 2017 at 14:37
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Getting hacked with WordPress is not a great thing to experience. Did you take a look at the Hardening WordPress codex page?
Most of the time you get extra PHP code in some of your WordPress Core, Theme and plugin files. I guess this happened to you too and tried to remove this. Could it be possible you removed too much? Try 'reinstalling' your theme from a newly downloaded zip file. Just replace your current directory.
I've one of my client's sites get hacked I usually do:
- Transfer the site to a local development environment.
- Reinstalling a fresh copy of WordPress
- Reinstalling fresh copies of plugins.
- Reinstalling fresh copies of Theme.
- Manually check and copy all content of posts, pages etc.
I do this because you can never be certain you missed a bit of the hack!
