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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Website hacked & SQL database tables corruptThanks….
…so just to be clear, if I re-upload a fresh copy of WordPress (which I have done twice), I can’t reuse the files that I’ve backed up?
Yesterday,I found, and followed the link in your response above (restoring). It didn’t work… after a long time uploading, I got an error message in phpMyAdmin that the files were incorrect. That was the point at which I simply started from scratch (for the 3rd time).
I completely agree that if I didn’t clean the site, the hackers can walk back in…. but my concern comes from the fact that I rebuilt the site from scratch (new WordPress installation, new everything), followed many of the security suggestions in your first post, and had my database tables crash within 2 weeks. Can you tell if the theme I’m using has holes, or the Plugins??
Thanks!!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Website hacked & SQL database tables corruptThank you so much for getting back to me!
I’ve been through most of those resources previously, and have followed the advice my limited technical skills allow me to.
I will have another go at doing it again.
None of those resources (or any I’ve found) give me a Dummy’s guide to restoring my website from my backups (both database and files). It makes sense to me that I should be able to restore my files using cPanel’s File Manager… however I don’t know how. It also seems sensible that I should be able to replace my PHPmyadmin database (which may have been hacked) with my backed up version. However I don’t know how!
Are you able to guess why I’m having such frequent problems? Is this usual for static WordPress sites run by amateurs?
Thank you again!!