WordPress is Deleting my Posts

  • huma90

    (@huma90)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    I have been facing this issue for a while now which is really frustrating. I have already changed themes to confirm if it was a theme issue. But turns out it is not a theme issue. I installed simple history plugin to get an idea how were my posts deleted since the access of posts deletion is only available to me on my website. But as per simple history it tell me wordpress deleted your xyz posts and it keep happening. Anybody has idea how to fix it?
    The plugins I am using are:
    Jetpack
    Akismet
    Sabai Directory
    AMP
    Compress JPEG and PNG images
    Elementor and Elementor Essential Add ons
    Google Analytics by Monster Insights
    Official Facebook Pixel
    Photonic Gallery
    Simple history
    Events Calendar and Add on for event template
    W3 Total cache
    WP forms lite
    Updraft
    Yoast
    To top
    WPS hide login

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Have you scanned your site for malware? Try installing WordFence and running a fairly aggressively configured scan.

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I have done that with wordfence. Scan is totally clear

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Is there any order/method to the deleting? Are the post removed or trashed?

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I have ruled out all the possibilities before posting here.
    Already checked for malware
    Checked Trashed and deleted items
    Limit the access of all other users

    I am using to make backups of the website with updrafts because of this issue. But it keeps happening again and it is hectic to restore it everyday from backup.
    As I mentioned as per Simple history plugin it says “WordPress deleted your post”

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    What cron tasks are queued up?

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-crontrol/

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    post_title	How was my first trip to Gwadar like (Mahrukh’s Travelogue 02)
_message_key	post_deleted
_wp_cron_running	true
_wp_cron_current_filter	delete_post
_server_remote_addr	162.241.216.0
_server_http_x_forwarded_for_0	162.241.216.0
_server_http_referer	https://traveloguepakistan.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1579770553.9872140884399414062500
    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Interesting! So there’s a cron task to delete posts. Where the heck is that coming from? What do you see on the “cron events” tab? Maybe there’s a clue.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    If you disable all plugins, does that cron task go away? If so, turn them on one at a time until you find out what’s causing it.

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    wp_scheduled_delete()
    Grunion_Contact_Form_Plugin->daily_akismet_meta_cleanup()

    Akismet::delete_old_comments()
    Akismet::delete_old_comments_meta()
    Akismet::delete_orphaned_commentmeta()

    I found these actions for deletion in the events tab

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Interesting. Where’d that (Grunion) come from? Is it part of your theme?

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    No that is not any of my plugin or even part of the theme 😮

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I guess it’s part of Akismet. If you disable that for a while (and just deal with the spam for a bit), does the problem go away?

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I ran search query through all my files on cpanel and it comes out to be under jetpack

    Thread Starter huma90

    (@huma90)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I have deactivate jetpack and checked the cron events.
    the deletion is still scheduled
    mm_cron_daily None 2020-01-24 17:18:30 (20 hours 3 minutes) Once Daily Edit | Run Now | Delete
    wp_scheduled_delete None
    wp_scheduled_delete()
    2020-01-24 17:18:32 (20 hours 3 minutes) Once Daily Edit | Run Now
    delete_expired_transients None
    delete_expired_transients()
    2020-01-24 17:18:32 (20 hours 3 minutes) Once Daily Edit | Run Now
    wp_scheduled_auto_draft_delete None
    wp_delete_auto_drafts()

    JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I have deactivate jetpack and checked the cron events.
    the deletion is still scheduled

    Once anything has created a cron task then I’d expect that cron task to stay regardless of the status of whatever created it.

    You’ll want to manually remove those cron tasks if they are problematic.

    Do you have or did you ever have something like the ‘Auto Post Scheduler plugin’ installed? That plugin can be set up to delete certain posts after a time.

    Also, some of the RSS feed importers (Feed WordPress for instance) can be set to expire posts after a set time.

    Is there a chance you might have used snippets from some plugin such as that in your theme’s functions.php to trigger an action?

    I’d also recommend iThemes Security with your WordFence as those two plugins complement each other and work well together and I’d install, enable, and run the Sucuri plugin then disable it immediately after checking for anything it might report.

    Finally, I’d look real hard at my host. It’s possible there is a ‘neighbor’ on that box who is either mischevious or seeing parts of your content and dealing with it the only way they know how by treating it as spam or unwelcome posts and removing those.

    Did you ever use a staging site and when doing the staging try running the staging and then the production site from the same database?

    —

    I’m going far afield here but…

    One more suggestion in the same vein would be to pickup the whole site and move it leaving the database on the present server for now. I think you mentioned running upDraftPlus… upDraft makes that move fairly easy. I’m more concerned about someone outside of your own staff being able to run your WordPress or cause something to happen within WordPress.

    If you decide to do the move as above then you might need to enable the remote access to your old database to let the new host see it. That’s good in itself because it locks down your database to just permitted servers and APPs.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by JNashHawkins.
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